10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CURTAL AXE»
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curtal axe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
curtal axe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity ...
At the first report of our piece and hurly-burly in the decks, the captain was a-
writing in his cabin and, hearing the noise, thought it some strange accident and
so came out with his curtal axe in his hand, presuming by his authority to pacify
the ...
Daniel J. Vitkus, Nabil I. Matar, 2001
2
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty ...
His opponent magnanimously declined to take advantage of the opportunity thus
offered him of finishing the combat by splitting his opponent's skull with his curtal-
axe, and, riding back to his startingplace, bent his lance's point to the ground, ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1872
3
Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of ...
His opponent magnanimously declined to take advantage of the opportunity thus
offered him of finishing the combat by splitting his opponent's skull with his curtal-
axe, and, riding back to his starting-place, bent his lance's point to the ground, ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1869
perhaps find some leaves of Venus' myrtle,1 but hewn down by a soldier with his
curtal axe,2 not bought with the allurement of a filed tongue. To be brief,
Gentlemen, room for a soldier, and a sailor that gives you the fruits of his labours
that he ...
Thomas Lodge, Brian Nellist, Simône Batin, 1995
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Shakspeare's comedy of As you like it, with explanatory and ...
A gallant curtal-axe 2 upon my thigh, A boar-spear in my hand ? and (in my heart
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will) We'll have a swashing and a
martial outside ; As many other mannish cowards have, That do outface it with
their ...
William Shakespeare, John Hunter (of Uxbridge), 1869
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The Cloister and the Hearth: Or, Maid, Wife, and Widow; a ...
O, a lie is not like a blow with a curtal axe. It hacks no flesh, and breaks no bones.
" "A curtal axe? "said Sybrandt; " no, nor even like a stroke with a cudgel." And he
shot a sly envenomed glance at the burgomaster's broken nose. Ghysbrecht's ...
There is not work enough for all our hands, Scarce blood enough in all their
sickly veins 2o To give each naked curtal-axe a stain, That our French gallants
shall today draw out And sheathe for lack of sport. Let us but blow on them, The
vapour ...
William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr, 2005
8
Shakespeare's As You Like It: Late Elizabethan Culture and ...
... are details of her self-disguise that identify her as the transvestite squire of
early modern European prose and dramatic romance. Rosalind's disguise
includes “a gallant curtal-axe upon [her] thigh, / A boar-spear in [her] hand” (1.3.
116–17).
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Dictionary of English Etymology
Lat. culter, cultellus. W. cyllel, a knife. Cutlas. — Curtal-axe. It. coltello and the
augmentative coltcl- laccio become in the Venetian dialect cortclo, a knife, and
cor- telazo, a pruning-knife or bill. Hence the OE. courtelas, and with that striving
after ...
Hensleigh Wedgwood (M.A.), 1859
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Delphi Complete Works of Charles Reade (Illustrated):
And the grief you arepreparing forhim so coolly? Ghysbrecht spoke sarcastically,
buttasted his own vengeance all the time. Oh,a lieis notlikea blowwith a curtal
axe. It hacks no flesh, and breaks no bones. A curtal axe? said Sybrandt; no, nor
...
