Old sword contests

Usage examples of duels.

But I had good reasons for supposing that the duel would end in smoke as so many other duels when one of the parties is a coward, and a coward I believed the count to be.

Chapter 4 Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history For the reasons mentioned in the preceding chapter, and from some other matrimonial concessions, well known to most husbands, and which, like the secrets of freemasonry, should be divulged to none who are not members of that honourable fraternity, Mrs.

The students fight duels in the room which I have described, TWO DAYS IN EVERY WEEK DURING SEVEN AND A HALF OR EIGHT MONTHS IN EVERY YEAR.

Sometimes spectators of these duels faint--and it does seem a very reasonable thing to do, too.

The ten men whose duels I had witnessed did not go away when their hurts were dressed, as I had supposed they would, but came back, one after another, as soon as they were free of the surgeon, and mingled with the assemblage in the dueling-room.

It transpired that this signifies that the wearer has fought three duels in which a decision was reached--duels in which he either whipped or was whipped--for drawn battles do not count.

A corps student told me it was of record that Prince Bismarck fought thirty-two of these duels in a single summer term when he was in college.

It is insisted that eight duels a week--four for each of the two days--is too low an average to draw a calculation from, but I will reckon from that basis, preferring an understatement to an overstatement of the case.

Consequently eighty youths furnish the material for some two hundred and fifty duels a year.

An account of it, in the next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.

I have had a good deal to do with duels on the Pacific coast, but I see now that they were crude affairs.

The Barghast had resumed their wild dancing and vicious duels with an almost febrile intensity.

The duels down by the fire were coming fast and with a ferocity that had begun drawing more and more Barghast onlookers.

Early on, during the southward journey across the high plains, sudden duels brought the clans to a halt a half-dozen times a day.

Could it be that she was actually beginning to enjoy her verbal duels with this Englishman?