I am unable to understand the phrase "save with swords for tickets". What is the meaning of the sentence?
She will never attend Sunday-school or learn to vote save with swords for tickets.
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Sign up to join this communityI am unable to understand the phrase "save with swords for tickets". What is the meaning of the sentence?
She will never attend Sunday-school or learn to vote save with swords for tickets.
... Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. You cannot reform a lady of many lovers, and Asia has been insatiable in her flirtations aforetime. She will never attend Sunday-school or learn to vote save with swords for tickets.
from The Man Who Was by Rudyard Kipling
save with swords for tickets means: unless you replace voting tickets with swords.