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Madoc personally instructed us in the art of fighting with the cutlass and dagger, the falchion and our fists.

There had been a fight The Queen’s knights had defended her as best they could with swords and falchions, until they were all wounded, six of them seriously.

Still she wanted resolution to give the thrust, and it was by a blow of the tribune's falchion that the horrid deed was finally accomplished.

At All Souls, Oxford, is a carving of a warrior-visaged person wearing a morion, and armed with a falchion and buckler.

Wide raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain, Fell England's arrow-flight like rain; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly.