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He himself sprang from it at birth; yea, at the very moment he leaped into the Battle of Life; as we mortals ourselves spring all naked and scabbardless into the world.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

His sword was slung scabbardless to his side, and he wore a baret on his head, with a single cock's feather in it, underneath which his pale face looked like that of a corpse.

From Orrain A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S.

In the terrors of an isolated death, remote from all the outward appliances of his faith, the stricken warrior found consolation in raising before his vision the hilt of his scabbardless sword.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian