"Weaponless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sword). Hold! hold! Who moves a step against them dies. Hold! hear Bertuccio—What! are you appalled to see A lone, unguarded, weaponless old man Amongst you?—Israel, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... rose the long-nosed man, and emerged, glowering but weaponless, his hands in the air; and emerged likewise his two partners. The long-nosed man tried to ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... youngsters with Winchesters, repeating shot-guns, and in a minute six were facing the Falins and six facing the Tollivers, each with his shot-gun at his hip. At the head of them stood Hale, his face a pale image, as hard as though cut from stone, his head bare, and his hand and his hip weaponless. In all that crowd there was not a man or a woman who had not seen or heard of him, for the power of the guard that was at his back had radiated through that wild region like ripples of water from a dropped stone and, unarmed even, he had a personal power that belonged to no other man in all ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... his lordship's bidding, and Mr. Caryll stood weaponless amid his enemies. He mastered himself at once. Here it was plain that he must walk with caution, for the ground, he perceived, was of a sudden grown most insecure and treacherous. Rotherby and Green in league! It gave him ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... hung along the battle's edge, And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel— That blue blade that the king's son bears,—but this Blunt thing!" He snapped and flung it from his hand, 10 And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout 15 Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell |
