Here I stood sabre in hand ready to stop the first man - The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I knew by my pursuer's coming alone that he did not take me for a Confederate and that the worst I should get to begin with would be the flat of his sabre - The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

But he fought like a hero in the action for I was near him when he fell under the sabre of the lieutenant yonder added Sergeant Sluder - A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Oliver Optic