_Sword_ (_The Irresistible_). The king of Araby and Ind sent Cambuscan´, king of Tartary, a sword that would pierce any armor, and if the smiter chose he could heal the wound again by striking it with the flat of the blade.--Chaucer, _The Squire’s Tale_ (1388). =Sword and the Maiden= (_The_). Soon after King Arthur succeeded to the throne, a damsel came to Camelot girded with a sword which no man defiled by “shame, treachery, or guile” could draw from its scabbard. She had been to the court of King Ryence, but no knight there could draw it. King Arthur tried to draw it, but with no better success; all his knights tried also, but none could draw it. At last a poor ragged knight named Balin, who had been held in prison for six months, made the attempt, and drew the sword with the utmost ease, but the knights insisted it had been done by witchcraft. The maiden asked Sir Balin to give her the sword, but he refused to do so, and she then told him it would bring death to himself and his dearest friend; and so it did; for when he and his brother, Balan, jousted together, unknown to each other, both were slain, and were buried in one tomb.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 27-44 (1470). =Sword in the City Arms= (_London_). Stow asserts that the sword or dagger in the City arms was not added in commemoration of Walworth’s attack on Wat Tyler, but that it represents the sword of St. Paul, the patron saint of London. This is not correct. Without doubt the cognizance of the City, previous to 1381, was St. Paul’s sword, but after the death of Tyler, it was changed into Walworth’s dagger. Brave Walworth, knight, lord mayor, that slew Rebellious Tyler in his alarmes; The king, therefore, did give him in lieu The dagger to the city armes. _Fishmongers’ Hall_ (“Fourth Year of Richard II.,” 1381). =Sword of God= (_The_). Khaled, the conqueror of Syria (632-8), was so called by Mohammedans. =Sword of Rome= (_The_), Marcellus. Fabius was called “The Shield of Rome” (time of Hannibal’s invasion). =Swordsman= (_The Handsome_). Joachim Murat was called _Le Beau Sabreur_ (1767-1815). =Syb´arite= (3 _syl._), an effeminate man, a man of pampered self-indulgence. Seneca tells us of a sybarite who could not endure the nubble of a folded rose leaf in his bed. [_Her bed_] softer than the soft sybarite’s, who cried Aloud because his feelings were too tender To brook a ruffled rose leaf by his side. Byron, _Don Juan_, vi. 89 (1824). =Sybrandt=, cousin and lover of Catalina, in _The Dutchman’s Fireside_, by James Kirke Paulding. The girl, half-spoiled by city life, is now ashamed of her rustic lover in his snuff-colored suit; anon, believes all the slanderous tales she hears of him, and, when she witnesses his terrible struggle with the Indian who sought her life, knows that she loves him truly and entirely (1831).