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Not surprisingly, this reasoning did not impress him, who challenged the man to a duel, with chibs as the weapons of choice.
The panto is funny and has something for the girls, a love story, and something for the boys, a duel fight with swords.
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.
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.
It included a tryst with a young man, who volunteered to be a second in a duel.
This is a duel between two men, accompanied by the beat of the drums and gongs played by a group of elderly women.
Curiously enough, the magazine chose to recount the fight in the reported speech of one of the participants in the duel.
The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.
In the film, the story's narrated through flashbacks, motivated by Stefan's reading the letter before the duel.
There is to be perform'd a monomachy, Combat or duel, time, place, and weapon, Agreed betwixt us.
We also live on the fourth floor of a block of flats overlooking Mile End Road, a duel carriageway.
With Saturday's all-around finals set up as a Russian duel, Chaschina was asked if she could dethrone the reigning world champ.
Remember that this was a period of time when any remark that might be deemed slighting or offensive could lead to a duel.
Katrina had grabbed her gun holster and strapped it around her hips, slinging her duel pistols into the holster.
The former leader of the Royal Flush charged at full speed and unholstered the duel pistols he gathered from the guards.
I had never been to the tiny park that memorializes the duel, since it has no historical interest.
The outcome of that duel may well settle the series, and on current evidence there is only one winner.
As in a real duel, if both fencers hit at the same time, both hits are counted.
He was kissing her bottom lip and suddenly his tongue was slowly touching hers, daring her, challenging her to duel with him.
The duel is a cautionary classic as well as a textbook example of strategy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As the hero of the duel at egham and the subsequent trial at Kingston, he was already something of a celebrity.
It was simply a question of days, this duel as to which should go off first.
I saw that he no longer contemplated a duel with his light-fingered adversary.
Every one is grateful to an adversary who bares himself to the waist in a duel.
The storm raised over this and the preceding duel had they but known it, was but a notch in the tide-gauge of this flood.
Had the fight been left to the duel between the two, Maynard had not a second to live.
But on his side also he entered upon the duel with all caution and wariness.
I hear,' resumed the lady, 'that his uncle is enraged at him, and more for the duel than the crim.
On recognising his antagonist in the duel, the kentuckian gives out a groan.
I remember that during the night preceding the duel I did not sleep a single moment.
The duel had been fought, like that of Jeffreys and Tom Moore, with leadless weapons.
It seems to me then that I would rather be a hero of a French duel than a crowned and sceptered monarch.
That there had been no duel was clear from the fact that Erris Boyne's sword was undrawn.
The duel took place, and afterwards there was a misunderstanding between George Sand and planche.
It was a desperate duel for a few strides, and then plaudit gamely responding drew away and the race was over.
Pug was hugely pleased with his trophy, displayed it pridefully and told briefly the tale of his duel with the late owner.
We not only have no right to endanger another's life by a duel, but we have no right to endanger our own.
He confessed that he was no match for Bill in a duel, but dared him to meet him in fistic encounter.
But the news of the sudden and serious illness of Captain boltrope put off the duel.
Just beneath where she sat two men were having a most energetic duel of words.
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