Somewhere ahead of Sharpe, steel scraped on steel and a man screamed.

Glancing at the side mirror, she saw showers of sparks as ragged steel scraped across blacktop.

"I'm taking men and boys from the city," Yoren growled as the sharp steel scraped at her head.

Fitzgerald and the first half of the company was already across the farther embankment and inside the tope now and Hakeswill could hear shouts and shots and a chilling clash as steel scraped on steel.

Illyrian steel scraped as Kazan's men reached for their hilts, and I heard an anxious, murmured prayer in Habiru.

A small, red flame of the Rage still flickered, and he called it sternly to heel as he reached out to draw another horse back from the trough . . . and that was when steel scraped behind him.

Mathian's hand darted to his sabre, and steel scraped, but Festian's hand snapped out and caught his wrist before he could draw it.

I cut his throat and Wasp-Sting's steel scraped against tendon and gristle, then sliced through their resistance so that blood sheeted down my mail coat.

Fix bayonets, Mark called to the men, and the steel scraped from the metal scabbards in the sombre gloom of the store.

The finely tempered steel scraped from its sheath, and then he froze, jaw dropping.