Barrier; sport

Usage examples of fencing.

To steel his body with the fluid motions and speed of aikido, he also took up boxing and fencing and rounded things out with acrobatics.

The Archdeacon, practised on his feet in many fencing bouts, flew out of the door and down the drive, and Gregory and the Colonel both lost breath--the first yelling for Ludding, the second shouting after the priest.

Blake practiced with this weapon it dawned upon him that his knowledge of fencing might be put to advantage should the necessity arise, to the end that his awkwardness with the buckler should be outweighed by his nicer defensive handling of his sword and his offensive improved by the judicious use of the point, against which they had developed little or no defense.

Wearying of this, because, as he said, it was poor work fencing with bunglers, he kept us closer company for the rest of the journey, and was most entertaining.

I have seen men and women actually fencing with questions put to them by the excellent priest who dwells at Letterfrack, Father McAndrew, who was obliged to exercise all his authority to obtain a straight answer concerning the potato crop grown on a patch of conacre land.

Alan glanced back at Cozy, who, given his vocation--defending individuals whose impulses had temporarily overwhelmed their judgment--had spent more than his share of hours fencing in the excesses of people whose emotional health was about as stable as a trailer park in a tornado.

They both rushed in and while Crim finished two that lay moaning with short bursts, Boday found a fencing sword and ran another through.

Blackthorn had just descended the stairs of the door of the Green Knight Fencing and Fighting Salon, after his daily bout with his cuz Tinne Holly, when he heard the command.

Petersburg if he did not use all his skill, and at the same time he sent an order to Dragon to be at the fencing school the next day.

Meyerhold would have his actors trained in the techniques of the acrobatic circus, fencing, boxing, ballet and eurhythmies, gymnastics and modern dance so that they could tell a story through the supple movements of their whole bodies or even just their faces.

If the sea is invading the linksland, well, add seawalls, rock armor, stone gabions, and fencing.

Plus his father was the fencing master, and so he surely must be coached in techniques that the younger Hoja did not know.

In another case, a young American airman was injured in a mock duel with another serviceman, when a miniature fencing foil was plunged into his right nostril, puncturing a small part of the limbic system immediately above.

Then came fencing lessons and a pistol range in every Masculinist lodge.

The verges of the road have been mown to reveal neat, upright barbed-wire fencing and fields of army-straight tobacco, maize, cotton, or placidly grazing cattle shiny and plump with sweet pasture.