brandish

I said as much to Mr. Brandish, and he answered that he thought it was likely enough, and that that sort of thing was often done.

You ask me "why I do not brandish my tomahawk and, like Walt Whitman, raise my barbaric yawp over the roofs of all the houses."

Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

They brandish their sticks, run and yell, dart to and fro, like young Indians.