The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, — Scimitar

"The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar."

"After having razed the garden, profaned the chalices and the altars, by horse the Huns broke into the Monastic library and they tore the incomprehensible books and they vituperated them and they burnt them, fearing their symbols and characters might be concealing secret blasphemies against their God, who was an iron scimitar."

"The rider was a giant whose skin, blacker than that of the other two, as well as his thick lips and flaring nostrils, told of a heavy predominance of Negro blood. His wide silk pantaloons, gathered in about his bare ankles, were supported by a broad girdle wrapped repeatedly about his huge belly. That girdle also supported a flaring-tipped scimitar, which few men could have wielded with one hand. With that scimitar, the man was famed wherever the dark-skinned sons of the desert rode. He was Tilutan, the pride of the Ghanata. (Lancer)"

"Five scimitars, wi’ murder crusted;"

"We now retreated towards the sea, being able to carry but few of our wounded with us; those remaining were barbarously butchered by the Turks, whose cavalry came out and deliberately cut off the heads of our poor helpless comrades."

"And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, thats all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles."