Greg van Eekhout

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.

Writer

Richard Francis Burton

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

English Explorer

Paul S. Kemp

Luke and Vader's light saber duel in 'Return of the Jedi' gives me chills every time. Even the still photo of the two of them in silhouette, sabers crossed, gives me a rush.

American Author

Charlie Rose

I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

American Journalist

Tom Shales

Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.

American Writer

Howard E. Koch

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

American Playwright

Ewan McGregor

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Scottish Actor

Alisher Usmanov

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

Businessman

Used to refer to weapons from history, not common in modern times.

Historical Weapon

Associated with mounted troops; think of horses and battlefield roles.

Cavalry Association

May symbolize honor or status when worn decoratively.

Decorative Connotation

In modern usage, refers to a lightweight weapon for the sport of fencing.

Fencing Sport

In fencing, sabre refers to one of the three disciplines, with unique rules.

Specific Techniques

Modern fencing sabres have a flat blade and guard for safety.

Blade Characteristics

In some regions, 'sabre' refers to a tool used for cutting plants, not a weapon.

Agricultural Tool

Commonly used in agricultural contexts to describe manual harvesting.

Harvesting Context

 All I really wanted to do when I was there was just open a window onto a country that people knew nothing about. To get past all the geopolitics and all the saber rattling between countries and to show that some young army conscript like that was a real person, to show that there was something worth understanding

A Rare Look Into the...

 which was -- he remembered as a kid reading Flash Gordon comic books, and he said that when Flash Gordon would come to an abyss, he would shoot what today would be a kind of a light saber. He would shoot his light saber across the abyss, making a blade of light, and then scamper across on this blade of light.

Steven Strogatz: How...

 California that same summer that I met Becca she was falling in love with this guy named Zach Orman and I've loved them dearly ever since this is saber party she's a River ecologist and I have never seen anybody get so excited about water quality measures invertebrates slimy

National Geographic...

 me completely bonkers I did not want to have to depend on people other people my whole life to enjoy the bubbly well thankfully a couple of years ago I attended a retreat called the mighty summit and my friend Helen Jane taught me how to saber a bottle of champagne

How to saber a bottle of...

 cost him any remaining local support. Now, with Doroshenko deposed and exiled, the Cossacks are at odds, disagreeing on what their next move should be. Until then, Stepan must keep order. With his musket and curved saber, he cuts an imposing figure.

A day in the life of a...

 you know feed hoist train them keep them safe she's very interested in me I said I think last night someone said she's got a good pea heart enormous ears enormous ears she's looking right at Sabre I think she's got a a fetish for

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 Colorization and sound effects added for you viewing pleasure. But we have no idea why it does that. Here's another one. This is also a sea pen. It's got a brittle star hitching a ride. It's a green saber of light.

Edith Widder: The weird...

 pleasure but we have no idea why it does that here's another one this is also a see pen it's got a brittle star hitching a ride it's a green saber of light and like the one you just saw it can produce

The weird, wonderful...

 no no no no that is inedible okay fella put it down oh okay it's three against one i get it right so mums at my camera mama you've got my coat saber you're

Three Playful Cheetahs,...

 well perseverance has paid off so just as Steve and saber arrived with the drone we managed to bump into with the car exactly where I found on foot so we