Usage examples "rapier":
- When he came near Alice she was taking from its buckhorn hook on the wall a rapier, one of a beautiful pair hanging side by side. - "Alice of Old Vincennes", Maurice Thompson.
- It is a lute to scatter songs to his mistress; a rapier, is she obdurate. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.
- On May 2, 1709, he writes thus: " Being artillery day and Mr. Higginson dead I put on my mourning Rapier and put a mourning ribbon in my little Cane." - "Customs and Fashions in Old New England", Alice Morse Earle.