sword-point

He saw that men must find the unaccountable corpse; must extract the unaccountable sword-point; must notice the unaccountable broken sword--or absence of sword.

Even as he looked, they broke into a hoarse yell and dashed once more upon the two knights, hurling themselves madly upon their sword-points; clutching, scrambling, biting, tearing, careless of wounds if they could but drag the two soldiers to earth.

In the Philippines, Islam has already been directly 'attacked.' We conveniently overlook that the peaceful Malay tribes of the Philippine archipelago were first raided for slaves, then forcibly colonized by 13th Century Muslim invaders who brutally murdered thousands to force sword-point conversions to Islam.

And last night, wearing a Zorro mask, Torres held Rubin up at sword-point - and took Rafa Benitez's men within touching distance of the Europa League's last four.

On one occasion his soldiers kicked down the door of a man refusing to pay rent, and took valuables from him at sword-point.

There Coutinho comments on his surname, given to his family by a Portuguese soldier 400 years ago when they were invited to be baptized at sword-point. "We were baptized but not really converted," he writes.

Never is it mentioned that those lands which the Crusaders invaded were in fact Christian countries which had been seized at sword-point by the Muslims four centuries earlier.

In October 2005, a man in Lapworth was forced to hand over the keys to his car at sword-point by four masked men who burst into his home.

A total of 146 British prisoners, including two women and several wounded men, and Holwell himself, were herded at sword-point for the night into the fort's 'black hole', a little lock-up the British had built for minor offenders.

The right of trial by jury, wrested from King John in 1215 at sword-point and preserved in the Sixth Amendment, provides a daily, case by case means by which we, the people, can guard our rights.

The first printed text drew abuse and threats from some quarters, but these, McGowan reveals, were not, as has been supposed, the real cause for the second round of polishing revisions, despite contemporary reports of compromises in the second edition and Rowlandson's caricature of a terrified Boswell tearing out pages at sword-point. Nicholas Hudson's discussion of the emergence of the idea of oral poetry is less informative than Nick Groom's account, in a later section of the book, of the way in which the notion of 'orality' shaped Thomas Percy's presentation of the written sources for his runes and reliques.

In October the Birmingham Mail reported how a man in Lapworth was forced to hand over the keys to his car at sword-point by four masked men who burst into his home.