"Cimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the outcry is heard, he draws the small, cimeter-shaped paper-knife, which he claimed would ...
— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne
... kris are distinctly and solely Malayan; they are shared with no other country; they are to be placed side by side with the green turban of the Moslem pilgrim and the cimeter of ...
— Tales of the Malayan Coast - From Penang to the Philippines • Rounsevelle Wildman
... recompense for the disasters of the expedition, conducted by Darius in person, against the wandering, fierce, and barbarous Mongolian race, that, known to us by the name of Scythians, worshipped their war-god under the symbol of a cimeter, with libations of human blood—hideous inhabitants of the inhospitable and barren tracts that interpose between the Danube and ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... of the youth; and as he had never felt anything of the kind before, the very fear itself terrified him. As the sun sank, it rose like the shadow of the world, and grew deeper and darker. He could not even think what it might be, so utterly did it enfeeble him. When the last flaming cimeter-edge of the sun went out like a lamp, his horror seemed to blossom into very madness. Like the closing lids of an eye—for there was no twilight, and this night no moon—the terror and the darkness rushed together, and he knew them for one. He was no longer the man he had ...
— Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various |
