Rapier

Suddenly a soldier appeared, who held a rapier in his hand.

The girl took the rapier and hid it.

He swore that if he ever found the rapier, he would kill the person right away on whom he found it.

I can hold my own, both with single rapier, backsword, sword and dagger, broadsword, or case of falchions.

[…] In his lawless fit, Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries ‘A rat, a rat!’ And in this brainish apprehension kills The unseen good old man.

The man beside him with the earrings and the big black case proceeded to unlock it. He took out of it two long Italian rapiers, with splendid steel hilts and blades, which he planted point downwards in the lawn.

John is very quick on his feet during interviews by using his rapier responses.