In fact, it's not a real sword by any reasonable standard.

The real sword was sold earlier to clear some debts of the family.

Perhaps it was having a real sword of one's own.

If those were real swords, the first peck would take your arm off!

That'll be the one where they take out their real swords and where somebody really gets killed.

To make things more complicated, we were going to be using real swords.

Of course they didn't use real swords, only stout sticks.

They both use real swords and cut up tons of laundry on the clothes lines.

Another of the men was holding what looked like a real sword in his right hand.

Only the new king himself wore a real sword.