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n. (single combat English)
Usage examples of "single combats".
The single combats, the general skirmish, the defence of a pass, or castle, were rehearsed as in actual service.
The use of duels, or single combats on foot, prevails among them in peace and war: their industry excels in all the mechanic arts.
As in single combats the champions were armed at all points, and as with heavy arms, both of the offensive and defensive kind, those of a particular temper and strength gave immense advantages, the notion of some champions having enchanted arms must certainly have turned the brains of a great many people.
In the field of battle, in partial encounters, in single combats, he was still the terror of the Barbarians: the clergy, and particularly his friend Augustin, were edified by the Christian piety which had once tempted him to retire from the world.
A Scythian chief, who commanded their right wing, suddenly turned the flank of the enemy, attacked their rear-guard in the presence of Chosroes, penetrated to the midst of the camp, pillaged the royal tent, profaned the eternal fire, loaded a train of camels with the spoils of Asia, cut his way through the Persian host, and returned with songs of victory to his friends, who had consumed the day in single combats, or ineffectual skirmishes.
The riders turned them and swung back to break off into single combats or the occasional clot of fighting.
For fifty of his hundred breaths Bruno stood firm amid the whirling single combats between desperate ghazi and confident deserters, Jopp, Tasso, and the rest of his bodyguard protecting his back.
The lines met, the men peeling off, whirling around each other in a hacking, shouting mob of single combats.
The king stared down at him, a warrior in his prime, thirty-five years old, veteran of many wars and many single combats.
Sword in one hand, clutching Godive tightly with the other, Shef stepped crouching into the night, eyes darting for a route through the fifty single combats that raged around him.
In the morning there should be blood in green rivers, and single combats of note between both champions and the lesser knights: no pity or quarter granted save to the properly prostrated foe - to him or her, courtesy, honor, and the extraction of a fat ransom after the victory dinner.