Not surprisingly, this reasoning did not impress him, who challenged the man to a duel, with chibs as the weapons of choice. |
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The panto is funny and has something for the girls, a love story, and something for the boys, a duel fight with swords. |
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One of Stob Chon's men challenged Rob Roy to a duel, and dealt the aging rebel a wound to the arm from which he never recovered. |
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Marcus's eyes lit up with surprise, I am guessing this was the first time in a duel that he did not get first blood. |
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It included a tryst with a young man, who volunteered to be a second in a duel. |
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This is a duel between two men, accompanied by the beat of the drums and gongs played by a group of elderly women. |
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Curiously enough, the magazine chose to recount the fight in the reported speech of one of the participants in the duel. |
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The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel. |
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In the film, the story's narrated through flashbacks, motivated by Stefan's reading the letter before the duel. |
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There is to be perform'd a monomachy, Combat or duel, time, place, and weapon, Agreed betwixt us. |
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We also live on the fourth floor of a block of flats overlooking Mile End Road, a duel carriageway. |
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With Saturday's all-around finals set up as a Russian duel, Chaschina was asked if she could dethrone the reigning world champ. |
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Remember that this was a period of time when any remark that might be deemed slighting or offensive could lead to a duel. |
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Katrina had grabbed her gun holster and strapped it around her hips, slinging her duel pistols into the holster. |
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The former leader of the Royal Flush charged at full speed and unholstered the duel pistols he gathered from the guards. |
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I had never been to the tiny park that memorializes the duel, since it has no historical interest. |
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The outcome of that duel may well settle the series, and on current evidence there is only one winner. |
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As in a real duel, if both fencers hit at the same time, both hits are counted. |
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He was kissing her bottom lip and suddenly his tongue was slowly touching hers, daring her, challenging her to duel with him. |
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The duel is a cautionary classic as well as a textbook example of strategy. |
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Hence our heroes are usually the track stars, those clean-limbed flyers who duel over miles and inches, minutes and seconds. |
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The image of battle as a formally arranged duel is an extreme idealization. |
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So if you don't buy a filter for every phone on the line, your calls will sound like an angry duel between a fax machine and a modem. |
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The binomial designates a duel made up of two individuated forces which intersect. |
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In Vienna, a dissipated pianist is about to flee the city to avoid fighting a duel the next morning. |
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Their betrothal is interrupted by an argument between their fathers and Guido has to defend the family honour in a duel, killing Lotario. |
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In 1972 the two had fought out an epic duel for the Open championship at Muirfield. |
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The ruling is incapable of ending the duel between the opposition and the ruling party. |
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He entered into a verbal duel with his officer and later opened indiscriminate fire at him. |
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To take the gold, Carter engaged in a head-to-head duel with his countryman, world champion Bevan Docherty. |
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He turns aggressive and a verbal duel follows, shattering any semblance of peace that remains. |
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When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp. |
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After handing out the new hockey sticks, they divided the boys into two teams and led them in a spontaneous hockey duel. |
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No unfair advantages in a duel were permissible if a knight was to retain his honor. |
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He quickly apologized, but the rather impetuous soldier demanded that the matter be settled in a sword duel. |
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Falvelon's victory in the Sprint came after a testing duel in the final furlong with American challenger Morluc. |
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The games, the drama of a pitching duel, the back and forth of a slugfest, a pennant race between good teams, the history and so much more. |
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Squealing keyboard lines duel with harsh sax solos, but it's the drumming that ultimately comes up victorious. |
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Hobson, fed up with Swaby's taunts since their tasty duel two years ago, jumped round the ring in joy. |
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The word duel refers to the competition element that is typical of judo on the one hand and to the rules on the other hand. |
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On Day Two of this new job, the Fax Machine and I had a day-long duel of wits. |
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This finally leads to the hero facing off against his adversary in a duel to the death. |
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In a match dictated by a strong crosswind the scoreline did not reflect the nature of this duel. |
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Rudge is hanged, Barnaby is reprieved from the gallows at the last moment, and Chester is killed by Haredale in a duel. |
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In 1598 he killed a fellow actor in a duel, but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of clergy, being branded instead as a felon. |
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Not to be out-done, Amelia also shod her feet and there was a duel of well clad feet. |
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They always had duel leadership the emperor as a figurehead, and shogun as a real leader. |
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Like the conflicting elements of wind and fire, the two men engage in an hour-long balletic duel, chasing each other across the stage. |
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In ancient times when the occurrence of a swordfight wasn't too rare, gentlemen trained at a game called foil with the express purpose of learning to duel. |
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The feud, which culminates in an incompetent duel with pistols, is finally forgotten when the theatre owners try to have the music halls shut down as disorderly houses. |
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Why it's grounds for a duel, or something theatric like that. |
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I then win a duel at the net before I take the game with an ace. |
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The pairs contest was an exciting duel between China and Canada. |
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It is people like the al Wakeel family who pay the harshest price for this military duel. |
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It was a duel on a larger scale, with all the uncertainty and danger that implied. |
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That, then, makes this, for the third year running, duel between Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler. |
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Drake has been following the case on behalf of Fahmy, who is duel Canadian-Egyptian national. |
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The protagonists Bernier and Gautier have a duel that again occupies an adrenaline-defying amount of time. |
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I suppose it was inevitable that these two masters of treacly sentimentality would meet up one day, but I was hoping they would duel to the death instead of joining forces. |
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A ferryman to whom they gave a silver 20-shilling piece decided they must be noblemen who were going to fight a duel abroad, and reported them to the authorities. |
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A swirl of activity ensues, with a cuckolded friend, the challenge to a duel, and the lady of the house designing a garden. |
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This naturally resulted in a magical duel, which Crowley eventually won. |
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Triathlon, the arcane sport of masochists, is poised to hit it big, with a high-profile Olympic debut and two camera-ready hardbodies in a duel for glory. |
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It was an assassin's duel, the usual messy fray, no holds barred. |
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How could they convince the stubborn, mule headed men to not duel? |
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It was this civility between Hakkinen and Schumacher that made the 2000 championship duel so different from the bitter feuds between Senna and Prost. |
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This contest produced a thrilling duel between the Rosewell House winner and Full Cream but Smullen did his work well and increased his lead at the top of the jockeys table. |
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The listener is treated to a rousing melodic duel between sax and lead guitar against a rhythmic bedrock of staccato bass, drums, and the newly added second guitar. |
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Most intriguing of all will be the many guns lurking around the Mound from the days when bank clerks routinely settled disputes with their customers by fighting a duel. |
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The Baggies' boss, who billed the duel with Wanderers as the biggest game of his Premiership career, frowned at the loss of two vital survival points. |
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He will eventually shed this genteelism, while still struggling with his duel nature. |
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Thankfully, Monteith's duel with Mr. Schuester provided a perfect opportunity for such a medley. |
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A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman. |
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Argentina and Belgium, earlier in the day, had fought out a fascinating duel, not unlike chess on turf. |
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Your princess was well within her rights to call him out to duel. |
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When he is called out to fight a duel, Boris cannot pull the trigger. |
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Following my account of my verbal duel with the young Bible-thumper last month, I received a number of very abusive criticisms via e-mail, from three different posters. |
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Of the actual duel between the Mountain and the viper, judging its accuracy is no easy matter. |
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If you fancy a duel of words with a lippy French barman while he mixes you something long and cool, then this is the place to unsheathe your rapier wit. |
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An Allied division under Thomas Picton met the remainder of D'Erlon's corps head to head, engaging them in an infantry duel in which Picton fell. |
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They include virtually all the senior seam bowlers, not least Rankin who made his Test debut in the final Ashes duel during the winter. |
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After the two have a painting duel off, Lautrec suggests they go to the Moulin Rouge but Matthew says he has no money and is underdressed. |
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On June 1, 1813, Shannon took Chesapeake in a duel that lasted less than fifteen minutes in Boston Harbor. |
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Sir Richard Burton, the African explorer, once challenged a fellow Oxford undergraduate to a duel for laughing at his walrus moustache. |
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It was less of a duel and more of a WWE-styled battle royale. |
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He meets his match when he goes up against a group of girls who also happen to be movie stuntwomen and ends up in a deadly road duel. |
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How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage. |
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Some groaners are converted into running gags, as when Joel and his brother get in a duel of parting, one-last-thing-before-you-go affirmations. |
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Winchilsea did not fire, a plan he and his second had almost certainly decided upon before the duel. |
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He died in a duel on Claverton Down and is buried in the churchyard at the Church of St Nicholas in Bathampton. |
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He promptly challenged the prince of the Saxons and one of his champions to a duel in order to regain the honour of the Angles. |
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Tybalt, meanwhile, still incensed that Romeo had sneaked into the Capulet ball, challenges him to a duel. |
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In the aftermath of this episode, Sidney challenged de Vere to a duel, which Elizabeth forbade. |
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The famous battle of the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor in the American Civil War was the duel of ironclads that symbolized the changing times. |
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They were to be married, but another man, Alfvine, took objection, and challenged Olaf and his men to the Scandinavian duel or holmgang. |
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In the following October a quarrel between Hammond and Major Grey led to a duel in the streets of Gloucester, in which Grey lost his life. |
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After an exchange of words, Hrungnir challenges Thor to a duel at the location of Griotunagardar, resulting in Hrungnir's death. |
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A necking duel can last more than half an hour, depending on how well matched the combatants are. |
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After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other. |
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William Walker first gained national attention after his duel with William Hicks Graham on January 12, 1851 in San Francisco. |
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Walker, though he tried a number of times to shoot his weapon during the duel, failed to fire even a single shot and Graham was left unscathed. |
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The duel ended after the wounded Walker finally conceded, and afterwards Graham was arrested but was quickly released. |
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In 1809 Huskisson resigned from the government along with George Canning following Canning's duel with fellow cabinet minister Lord Castlereagh. |
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Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking. |
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Captain James Dacres of the Guerriere began a cycle of frigate duels by challenging the USS President to a single ship duel to avenge the losses aboard the Little Belt. |
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This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Myrgings. |
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After lengthy hearings at the Parlement de Paris, it was decided that guilt could not be decided through a standard jury trial, and a judicial duel was ordered. |
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Whitaker's mount became the oldest horse ever to win the classic at 21 years of age after a cliffhanging duel with Ireland's John Ledingham on Kilbaha. |
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The key form line for punters could be last month's Warwick race in which Incentivise got the better of a stirring duel with the still-unexposed Barton Gift by two lengths. |
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Unlike the previous engagements, President was not taken in a duel. |
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Hans Talhoffer in his 1459 Thott codex names seven offences that in the absence of witnesses were considered grave enough to warrant a judicial duel, viz. |
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Leslie pictorialized this turn of events by investing his subjects with a grim impassiveness and placing them back to back, as if posed to pace off in a duel. |
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One of the more modern refinements of the blood feud is the duel. |
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So if our future king and our possible future messiah can't win a duel with their pork swords when a woman who hits all the right buttons throws herself at them, who can? |
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The count demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel at dawn. |
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Wellington responded by immediately challenging Winchilsea to a duel. |
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The conflict started after Walker criticized Graham and his colleagues in the newspapers, which angered and prompted Graham to challenge Walker to a duel. |
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While Helen tells Priam about the Greek commanders from the walls of Troy, both sides swear a truce and promise to abide by the outcome of the duel. |
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Kalkir and Vercingetorix provide a fascinating early duel in the Triumph trial but don't be shocked if Gigginstown nick this with Petite Parisienne. |
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Sepoy Darshan Lal entered into a verbal duel with his senior Havaldar Ranjot Singh and in a fit of rage fired at him, according to official sources. |
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The four quarrel with each other until Lysander and Demetrius become so enraged that they seek a place to duel to prove whose love for Helena is the greater. |
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Then engaged in a fierce duel for the lead from a long way out against a talented rival into a strong headwind when tiring but still prevailing narrowly in Grade 1 Frizette. |
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The king was angered when George, who disliked Newcastle, verbally insulted the duke at the christening, which the duke misunderstood as a challenge to a duel. |
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Later that month, as defending Open champion, Faldo was involved in a memorable duel with rival Greg Norman in the Open Championship at Royal St George's Golf Club. |
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The Sachsenspiegel of 1230 recognizes the judicial duel as an important function to establish guilt or innocence in cases of insult, injury or theft. |
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I also second the suggestion of Duel To The Death, which has great sword work. |
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Tom Watson and the Scots golfing galleries relived all their yesteryears at Turnberry last week when he and Jack Nicklaus played out the reprise of the Duel of the Sun. |
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Tenders are invited for Super Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone For Lead And Backing Vocals, Laminated Varimotion Diaphragm Deep Drawing Process Duel Sock Mount. |
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Originally slated for release under the title Joy Ride, Dahl's superior teen thriller is Duel meets Jeepers Creepers with Convoy and Scream in the passenger seats. |
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Death's Duel portrays life as a steady descent to suffering and death, yet sees hope in salvation and immortality through an embrace of God, Christ and the Resurrection. |
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