Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

“And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the C…”

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics …”

“Bilo je to... vrlo... ljubazno od tebe", oprezno je izgovorila."Je li? Nikako n…”

“Ye gods, it was so much better when there were just four of us up against that …”