Tell your men who draw steel to stand down.

"But not even for the life of my liege could I draw steel on a woman or a child."

"Draw steel in the presence of the king, will you?"

Without drawing steel, they rent it into a piece for each man.

He did not need to say more, let alone draw steel.

"Very well, do I have your words that you won't draw steel first?"

Hadn't he said it was dangerous to draw steel at the fair?

I will not have drawn steel here on my ground, nor violence done to any.

They both looked rather pitiful, and the other one actually drew steel as we went by.

I had drawn steel in the same instant, ready to defend myself.