1.   He drew his sword and plunged it into his side.

2.   He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.

3.   He drew his sword, his only weapon now, and rushed upon his enemy.

4.   Menelaus drew his sword, his only weapon now, but as he did so it fell from his hand broken.

5.   One of his executioners drew a sword and beheaded him.

6.   Sharpe slowed to a walk and drew his sword.

7.   The Covenanters drew swords and spears, advanced on to the soft ground, and engaged the Dragoons in bloody hand-to-hand fighting.

8.   But at the Houston hotel, they witnessed a San Jacinto symposium in which academics drew verbal swords on one another and sliced away to a bloody draw.

9.   He drew his sword, cut off his left hand and threw it to shore, winning the race.

10.   The banner under which that ideology marched off to war, fired its guns, drew swords and filled hundreds of thousands of graves was the Confederate battle flag.