swashbuckling

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• What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
• He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
• Aimed at a teenage audience, it will be swashbuckling without the floppy hats and feathers say the makers.
• For younger visitors, swashbuckling pirates will be hand to entertain, along with magicians, face paintings, musicians and much more.
• Wimbledon had a new, swashbuckling hero. The Sun
• This claim to glory, doubtless exaggerated in stereotypical Gascon fashion, caricatures, indeed cleverly reverses the terms of Soyer's own, far less swashbuckling role in the July Days — Mirobolant would have slain elite troops while standing his ground in the street, whereas Soyer was nearly lynched by a revolutionary mob while fleeing from a palace kitchen. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
• His good looks and swashbuckling style taught a generation that golf could be exciting both to play and to watch. Times, Sunday Times
• Instead, I pirated books (lawyers and other official-type people take note, by “pirate” I mean I dress up in swashbuckling garb while I read free public-domain titles). Falling Off the E-Book Wagon « Become A Robot
• All I could think about was my handsome brother dressed as a Mohawk swinging from the mast of the ship and landing on deck like a swashbuckling pirate!
• Too often the film comes across more like a tribute to old-fashioned swashbuckling epics than a solid story in its own right, and the result is diverting enough but lacks dramatic heft.