It seeks to use state power as a rapier not a bludgeon.

Dahlgren's rapier tip moved slowly from right to left, with mesmerizing effect.

Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective.

Once more he was thrusting at her with the rapier of truth.

A real smile this time, and I didn't see a rapier anywhere.

The judge smiled, perhaps appreciating the rapier sharp thrust of his interrogator.

Beaumarchef again made a motion of executing a thrust with the rapier.

Tom's blood quickened at the feel of the rapier in his hand.

The rapier entered just below his thread with a dull chucking stab.

Cleggett, for the first time, felt a little impatient with the rapier.

And he flamed at me while his hand dropped to his rapier.

They might have been compared to a rapier and a two-handed broadsword.

These discussions, involving the swift rapier play of intelligences, Colonel Winwood enjoyed.

A third assassin came at them with a rapier and a knife.

A glove and rapier, a turret and a postern gate for adventure.

Louvois gathered himself up, and shot his rapier back into its sheath.