had been unsheathing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of unsheathe.
  unsheathe

  verb (used with object)

  to draw from a sheath, as a sword, knife, or the like.

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