For as soon as he had seen the sunlight run down the channel of his foe's foreshortened blade, and as soon as he had felt the two tongues of steel touch, vibrating like two living things, he knew that his enemy was a terrible fighter, and that probably his last hour had come.
Zeren, arerioak zeharka luzatzen zion ezpataren erretenean eguzkiaren argia lasterka ikusi zuen orduko, eta altzairu-mihi biak, bizidunak bailiran dardaraz, elkarrekin tupust egiten sumatu, garbi jakin zuen egokitu zitzaion etsaia borrokari ikaragarria zela, eta azken ordua iritsia zitzaiola aurki.