Sometimes you live by the sword and die by the sword.
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Martina of Rome, that Pope Urban had built a church in her honor and had composed the hymns used in her office in the Roman Breviary, that she perished by the sword.
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Since he replaced Pope John Paul II, Benedict has made repeated calls for religious tolerance and freedom in Islamic countries - most notably in his 2006 speech at Regensberg where he quoted a Byzantine emperor from the Middle Ages criticizing Islam for seeking to spread its message by the sword.
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But Rudolph put the bowlers to the sword by crashing 16 fours and a six in his 157 off only 213 deliveries.
They're still somewhat unscathed by the double-edged sword of sudden fame.
Professional writers, for whom concentration is critical, are often derailed by the double-edged sword of the Internet: they use it to find material, but they often go off on search sidetracks that interrupt their creative process.
But others, such as the right to go about the city with a drawn sword, the right to be hanged by a silken rope, the right to drive sheep over London Bridge, the right to be drunk and disorderly in the City, the right to be married in St Paul's Cathedral and buried with the City, may always have been in the realms of folklore.
If not, well, legend has it that the sword is held up by only a single horse hair...
Touches are recorded by an electric scoring apparatus connected to the sword's tip.
The Jaipur Sword was presented to King Edward VII for his coronation in 1902 by the Maharajah of Jaipur.
This provides an insight into the techniques used by gladiators as well as the chance to slip into a tunic and swing a sword in the school's sandy arena.
It takes the form of a poetry contest punctuated by sword and step movements and poetic exchanges between a singer poet and a choir.
The painting, by an unknown artist, shows Richard holding a broken sword "symbolic of his broken kingdom, " says Ms. Thornton.
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But she snaps out of her dreaminess to become an impulsive young woman bent on revenge, hacking at her hair with her sword in the hope that she will be taken more seriously by the men whose world she has chosen to share.
Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), probably the least excitable action heroine in modern movies, is given a sword by Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat), for safekeeping.
You can switch out weapons by pausing the game, so you might start a battle off with a bow and a sword, and then switch out the bow for some other closer or middle-ranged weapon.
"Remember the sword of your great-grandfather Ali, " in reference to the man who is regarded by the Shiites as their historical religious authority.
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