"We now retreated towards the sea, being able to carry but few of our wounded with us; those remaining were barbarousl…"

"Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape l…"

"The disembarkation was a fucking shambles and we only took Alexandria as quick as we did to get a fucking drink somew…"

"Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me…"

"A congress of the powers is deceit agreed on between diplomats — it is the pen of Machiavelli combined with the scimi…"

"And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimita…"

"Arrasado el jardín, profanados los cálices y las aras, entraron a caballo los hunos en la biblioteca monástica y romp…"

"After having razed the garden, profaned the chalices and the altars, by horse the Huns broke into the Monastic librar…"

"The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern …"

"Conan's scimitar licked out like the tongue of a cobra, and a Zamorian shrieked and fell, clutching his belly."