| For example, in ritual, swords or knives or wands or candles are often symbolically plunged into chalices. |
| All swords and rapiers used are blunt, but otherwise accurate replicas of surviving examples. |
| Lying at their feet were two new swords and a crossbow complete with a full quiver of arrows. |
| Its bronze ram could smash enemy ships and armed soldiers could leap aboard a foe's vessel in hand-to-hand combat with spears and swords. |
| Last September, I started with the swords and I moved on to the wands, and then to the cups. |
| On all sides, ignoring him, barbarian mercenaries brandished their javelins, bows, pikes, two-edged swords. |
