Meanings of cut-and-thrust in английском

The intricate silver cross-guard of a cut-and-thrust sword jutted from his belt.

And finally, there was a cut-and-thrust sword of alarming dimensions.

Her shrewd question, uttered almost unthinkingly in the cut-and-thrust of repartee, had got home somewhere on an old wound.

His veteran Spanish infantry, armed with helmets and shields, and short cut-and-thrust swords, were the best part of his army.

Cook and his colleagues were pioneers in the use of these new statutes in the real-life cut-and-thrust of the federal courtroom.

With a shout of triumph he snatched up a straight cut-and-thrust sword, which in weight and size seemed exactly made for him.

Of course all were armed; but, fortunately for us, none had anything more formidable than a cut-and-thrust dagger about ten inches long.

Dr John Dennis of the UK Central Science Laboratory in Norwich described some of the cut-and-thrust of this battle to the Leeds audience.

Certainly there is nothing more telling in drama than a piece of "cut-and-thrust" dialogue after the fashion of the ancient "stichomythia."

He took it up only after failing to make a living as a chemical worker and cab-driver in the cut-and-thrust of modern Beijing.

The daily cut-and-thrust of Fleet Street will always attract individuals hungry for a story -tenacious, irreverent, often idealistic and cynical in equal measure.

Amid the cut-and-thrust daily fights over stimulus, however, policymakers could be losing sight that growth potential is prematurely falling because of their own bad decisions.

Notoriously libertarian, the technology industry yawned at the cut-and-thrust world of Pennsylvania Avenue politics, while legislators' eyes glazed at the mention of routers and bytes.

His players, top of the Championship, were embroiled in cut-and-thrust fare with Leeds when Howe wanted them, not the hosts nor the crowd, to dictate.

Achilles half draws "his great sword," one of the long, ponderous cut-and-thrust bronze swords of which we have actual examples from Mycenae and elsewhere.

"Fight!" Sir Howard had unthinkingly clenched his fist, and was making cut-and-thrust motions in the air.