“See if you can hold off this pack of blood-sucking scavengers. Here’s my duelling sword.”

The King handed me his own sword! “You have full permission to use it on anyone who looks remotely like a physician.”
Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 3 (p. 47)

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