The pointed blade poised motionless, a foot above Cleve's breast.

The blade poised above, dripping and deadly with Sathid solution already under demon domination.

The Cyadoran forces were nearly upon the Lornians, and Gethen's blade was poised, raised.

In the moonlight, three blades poised before his bloodless face.

"I would not slay a woman," Neq said, his blade poised above her body.

Tinuva held the blade poised, ready to drive it into Bovai's heart and in that instant he knew . . . and he remembered as well all that he had become.

The blade poised above The Shadow's heart, while the gritted teeth sucked in a long-drawn breath.

A thin blade poised vertically before his eyes.

"It's about to get messy," she warned, her blade poised to penetrate.

The blade poised upward: Verdugo's salute to the enemy who was soon to die.