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A series of rapier-like forehands bring up 15-40, and a jubilant Kvitova slams a forehand winner on the first set point to draw proceedings level.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2015

A series of rapier-like forehands bring up 15-40, and a jubilant Kvitova slams a forehand winner on the first set point to draw proceedings level.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2015

Is the Blues rapier-like attack nothing but a memory now?

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2011

More important, he is the anonymous author of the rapier-like "Notes & Comment" which leads off The New Yorker's famed "Talk of the Town," sometimes called the best column in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The double entendres, the two-pronged sentences, slid over his tongue to dart rapier-like into anything that happened to be in the way.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou