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 1     2|             stroke, and carry~Their swords aloft, or stoop and stand
 2    12|            once spears, shafts, and swords, his corslet bore~By thousands,
 3    13|             At sight of their drawn swords, in panic, I~Turn shortly
 4    18|            steer,~And sheathe their swords, the impious slaughter done;~
 5    19|             Than a hundred thousand swords dismayed them more.~Them
 6    22|           lead;~Him from a thousand swords, a thousand spears,~We vow
 7    23|            for wonderment, had more~Swords than a hundred joined to
 8    24|            trembles earth,~When the swords cross; and to the stroke
 9    27|          interfere:~They with drawn swords the twain asunder bore;~
10    31|            who scarce discern their swords.~ ~ XXVI~He of Mount Alban
11    31|    Brandished alike their trenchant swords on high,~To teach more wit
12    33| extinguished on the field;~How many swords, how many lances, see~The
13    33|         their sleeping wrath; their swords they drew:~Then, one against
14    33|             And fast and hard their swords were heard to beat.~ ~ LXXX~
15    36|             bereft,~Amid a thousand swords, when -- dragged apart --~
16    40|         seeks the knight~And goodly swords and lances, far and near,~
17    41|      bucklers were the spears,~With swords encountered the returning
18    42|            train)~He, mid a hundred swords, unarmed, was slain.~ ~
19    46|          warriors with their biting swords begin~To try where either'