Feeling a bit sheepish about it, I traveled with the shield slung behind my shoulders and the sword buckled to my waist.

"We will speak further when I come back," she told them as Lan reappeared, his sword buckled on over a green coat undone to reveal an unlaced shirt, bulging saddlebags draped over his shoulder.

Judson whipped his head around, saw his father with his sword buckled on and a British-made horse pistol in each hand.

The dupes were blamed for not knowing that the man wore the wrong cap or the wrong sash, or had his sword buckled on the wrong way; but these are technicalities which they might surely be excused for not knowing.

Rand, with his sword buckled over his red coat, was being confronted by Agelmar and Kajin.

All we lack is a suitable Princess, and a sword for me to buckle on.

A matador's sword deeply embedded in its neck, the animal's front legs buckled and its huge weight collapsed.

Some wives wore swords buckled around their own waists.

A sword, with a sword-belt, he buckled about his waist; and the rest of the articles, a regular collection of odds and ends, he left just where they were lying.

With some slow deliberation, he took his sword from the travel scabbard buckled to the saddle skirt and inserted the sheathed weapon snugly into his baldric.