"Certainly," I answered, taking the sabre in my hands, and making a sign to the princess to fear nothing, as it was my own life that I was about to sacrifice, and not hers. But the look of gratitude she gave me shook my courage, and I flung the sabre to the earth.英文原著 · 《The Arabian Nights》
Let me go to the door.'
He took the lamp in his hand, crossed the two intervening outer rooms, and opened it. A rude clattering of feet over the floor, and four rough men in red caps, armed with sabres and pistols, entered the room. `The Citizen Evr��monde, called Darnay,' said the first. `Who seeks him?' answered Darnay. `I seek him. We seek him. I know you, Evr��monde; I saw you before the Tribunal to-day. You are again the prisoner of the Republic.'
The four surrounded him, where he stood with his wife and child clinging to him.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
At last an order came, and the first troop moved with muffled tumult across the bridge. Coleman and his dragoman followed the last troop. The horses scrambled up the muddy bank much as if they were merely breaking out of a pasture, but probably all the men felt a sudden tightening of their muscles. Coleman, in his excitement, felt, more than he saw, glossy horse flanks, green-clothed men chumping in their saddles, banging sabres and canteens, and carbines slanted in line.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
The Kaiser will stake his array Of sabres, of Krupps, and of lances; An Englishman punts with his pay, And glory the jeton of France is; Your artists, or Whistlers or Vances, Have voices or colours to bet; Will you moan that its motion askance is - The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette?英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
At this moment Colonel Chabert was sitting among these men--men with coarse faces, clothed in the horrible livery of misery, and silent at intervals, or talking in a low tone, for three gendarmes on duty paced to and fro, their sabres clattering on the floor.英文原著 · 《Colonel Chabert》
Of the many who had started there was only a ragged remnant near me. We fired a dozen volleys lying there. The man at my elbow rolled upon me, writhing like a worm in the fire. 'We shall all be killed!'a man shouted. 'Where is the colonel? 'Dead,'said another. 'Better retreat,'said a third. 'Charge!'I shouted as loudly as ever I could, jumping to my feet and waving my sabre as I rushed forward.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》