“Made in Sheffield, and guaranteed never to fail! Good slicer this is, real good. You can cut a man in half with one of these if you get the stroke right.”

—  Bernard Cornwell

Daniel Fletcher, describing his 1796 light cavalry sabre, p. 207
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