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He quoted the swashbuckling versifier François Villon: To Messire Noel, named the neat By those who love him, I bequeath A helmless ship, a houseless street, A wordless book, a swordless sheath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be the fact enough, I use no sword upon a swordless man.
From The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Rudin, like the Duke in The Statue and the Bust, is a splendid sheath without a sword, "empty and fine like a swordless sheath."
From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
I was swordless, coatless, hatless, and bootless; but I carried a well-filled purse in my belt.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major
