When I finally got it unrolled, I saw that it was a ceremonial or ornamental sword, forged of pure silver.

Planting his hand on the hilt of an ornamental sword, he asked: "Frankly, Cranston, how do I look?"

A jewelled scabbard encased the blade of an ornamental sword, fully three feet long, chased with gold.

The suspects included several journalists returning from the war, and a member of the American military, who apparently sought to send home the rifle, a pistol and some ornamental swords and knives.

Two days later, the patient, Juan J. Gonzalez, was charged with killing two people and wounding nine others with an ornamental sword on the Staten Island Ferry.

"They leap up, see, and grab one of the ornamental swords behind the shield over the fireplace."

In 1780, Shays was presented with an ornamental sword by General Lafayette, in honor of his military service.

Fantastically clad, bearing a florid ornamental sword, he also carried a businesslike blast gun.

He was a small, middle-aged man, resplendently attired with ornamental swords, even though he had been routed out of bed like all of them.

Lafayette grabbed for the ornamental sword with which the duke's servants had provided him.