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Simple sentences
The pen is mightier than the sword.
All who take up the sword will perish by the sword.
I want a sword like this!
I want a sword!
Tom drew the sword.
It's a beautiful sword.
Mary gave Tom the sword.
This sword has a strange history.
He was killed with a sword.
He forged the steel into a sword.
Do not resort to the sword but appeal to reason.
I don't have a sword.
My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.
They will hammer their swords into ploughshares and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn how to make war.
He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.
Chris swung his sword!
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
That sword is fit for a prince.
All those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
Movie subtitles
How was the sword?
Huh? for what reason do you walk along the path of the sword?
That's to make my name by the sword.
I pity you. The times have changed. A sword that does not kill people.
I intend to follow the way of the sword just as I have been.
I have been working hard at my pursuit of knowledge in the ways of the sword.
So why don't you carry a sword? will you go off on another journey sometime just like what you were on when you came here that time?
Throw away yer sword!
My mind and body will live the way of the sword.
Sword?
The sword from a swordfish.
The murderer of my husband flaunts the green sparkling sword he robbed from the dead!
Not on the cross, Lord Margrave - on the sharp edge of your sword!
Lord Hagen Tronje knows well, why he never lays aside his sword!
I, Hadj Hamou, give you my horse as well as this sword with which I've always fought fairly.
As a show of faith, I'll let you keep your sword and horse, but I'll take care of your son.
He taught you to walk, to ride a horse, and to use a sword and rifle.
His only gift is with the sword.
The sword has made Sweden great.
Keep his sword arm free.
His father carried a sword, but he chose the plough.
But having had adventure enough in six years to last me six lives. I came here, hung up the sword, and picked up the lancet.
When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword.
At the Sydney casino a troupe of sword-swallowers is perforing.
My sword is yours, Your Highness.
Am I not personally commanding the force that goes with Sir Guy and Lady Marian to Kenworth Castle to guard the tax money he is bringing back, with my sword and my life?
And I hope some Norman sword whittles you down to size!
Your sword, Gisbourne.
Twin Sword Style!
Twin Sword Style. though I had heard of one stroke swords. I lose if I show a chink in my armor.
It's not possible for me to provide for you. if I can gain fame with the sword the road to being a government official might open up for me.
A sword that does not kill people.
If my wish were to come true like this. I have been working hard at my pursuit of knowledge in the ways of the sword.
So why don't you carry a sword?
For the way of the sword.
After the fall of Plevna Osman Pasha surrenders his sword.
James, me cuffs and me sword, please.
Are you going to cut Kruger all in pieces with your sword?
News and current affairs
In the international arena, Eban's pen was his sword, and the spoken word his lance.
The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style. Some voters slashed their ballots boldly, decapitating the old regime with flourishing strokes.
Aided by systems developed by western intelligence agencies, China has forged a virtual sword that threatens to block the path to democracy.
In effect, such feelings of national betrayal served to transform China's cult of national shame from a useful tool of government propaganda into a two-edged sword wielded against the government itself.
We can now see the utility of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset-price bubbles, where the manipulation of short-term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double-edged sword.
Globalization is also a two-edged sword.
Israel was born in war and has lived by the sword ever since.
Likewise, intellectual property, if not designed properly, can be a two-edged sword when viewed from a learning perspective.
With the weak dollar hanging like the sword of Damocles over the global economy, almost everyone laments America's spendthrift habits.
Ask a waiter for a steak knife and you will draw a look that suggests you've asked for a sword.
Yet, negotiating a complicated and painful agreement with Syria, which may involve uprooting 15,000 Israeli settlers from the Golan, under a Damocles' sword of a referendum doesn't make Barak's task easier.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The first will give America a shield; the second will keep its nuclear sword sharp.
The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style.
But, despite the huge FCA fine, no top executive was forced to fall on his or her sword, and investors did little more than shrug.
His book Are We Truly Condemned to Live by the Sword to Eternity? marked the transformation of the soldier into a statesman.
An A-bomb is millions of times more immoral than a spear or sword, hundreds of thousands of times more immoral than a rifle, thousands of times more immoral than a machine gun, and hundreds of times more immoral than salvo systems or cluster bombs.
This tactic has proven to be a two-edged sword.
People do not live wholly by the word, but neither do they live solely by the sword.
But establishing their father's awareness could be a double-edged sword, since it could also mean that keeping him alive is pointless torture, and it is in his best interests to be allowed to die peacefully.
The announcement was welcomed by ordinary Nigerians, but incited jitters in the industry, prompting anxious questions about how deep Obasanjo's angry sword will cut, and how smooth the political succession is likely to be.
International law, China understands, is a double-edged sword that can be used against China in other territorial disputes, or even in its domestic affairs.