1.   Two men appeared in front of him, and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side, raising his sword.

2.   He raised his sword and answered them with the same word.

3.   Scathach cried out and raised his sword, then sheathed the weapon and slumped in his saddle, saddened, perhaps, by thoughts of his friends.

4.   A recent newspaper photo had shown a Japanese soldier raising his sword to behead an American POW, who was bent over, on his knees.

5.   From his Washington dais, Gen. Newton Leroy Gingrich raised his sword and sounded the bugle.

6.   The St. George, for example, has his sword raised above his head, about to slash the dragon.

7.   You, who have had the heart to raise a sword against your children, you, their mother ...

8.   The storyteller sweats profusely, one hand clinging onto the ancient manuscript, the other raising the sword to cut a swath through the air.