The immediate consequences to a duelist of wounds inflicted by thrusts or cuts from the rapier, dueling sabre or smallsword were unpredictable. |
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While upper-class dueling had become rare by the 1840s, highly ritualized forms of working-class fighting continued throughout the century. |
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Two reddish dueling scars, badges of honor from his student days, glare prominently on his right cheek. |
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The Sanctuary's dueling grounds was found at the end of the north wing of the main chamber. |
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Two terribly eager young men were dueling with megaphones, exchanging jocular insults across the concourse. |
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Taking a key from his watch chain, he opened it and looked at the French dueling pistols lying on their dark blue velvet beds within. |
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Colin and Miriam are dueling fiercely near the bar, their blades clashing against each other. |
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Fencing was founded in the 1800s based on the three types of sword dueling. |
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Some were dueling away with wooden swords, and others were throwing javelins at targets. |
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The result is a farrago of contradictory ideas, with visions of patriarchs dueling with notions of upward-striving capitalists. |
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Such is the nature of American fencing that even at the nationals, marginal swashbucklers like me can end up dueling an Olympian. |
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I'm not terribly interested in the dueling hagiologists and demonizers bickering over the historical legacy of the informant. |
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They made it look easy, and I thought that maybe I could win the fight by dueling like they had. |
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The dueling lawsuits offer a rare window into the secretive inner workings of a hedge fund. |
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What happened to the record industry in 1948 was the result of dueling technical standards sowing market confusion. |
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If I could press a stethoscope to your head and listen to your brainwaves, I imagine they'd sound like a pair of dueling banjoes. |
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In a 2001 article in New York magazine about feuding couples, one dueling duo, Dave and Brooke, traded barbs about her wireless addictions. |
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The band's dueling guitars harken back to the arty axe work of the quintessential NYC act Television. |
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The drums boomed, the bass often got lost in the mix under dueling guitars, and the dueling guitars crescendoed. |
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The rivalry came to a boiling point when the dueling divas finished the evening with an exhaustive dance-off. |
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What our dueling doofuses don't realize is that this is all a set-up. |
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Yet the two superb lead performers put flesh on what are essentially dueling essays. |
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A candelabrum hung from the wall, next to a pair of dueling rapiers. |
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Only a test in the dueling arena can determine if her skill outmatches your own! |
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The dueling scene where we go from hating the rotter to feeling pity for him to hating him again when he finds a way to screw Casanova over was masterly. |
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The experience this time of dueling op-eds citing papers the relevance of which no one can agree upon is less than heartening. |
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After Rome's decline, military drill almost disappeared as warfare degenerated into undisciplined melees and individual dueling. |
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Hamilton held an aversion to dueling, but as a man of honour he felt compelled to accept Burr's challenge. |
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The last legal duel in South Carolina was fought near Bishopville, the county seat, in 1880, after which dueling was outlawed. |
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Crom the Conqueror, lord of Chaos at only 230 pts and with more special dueling rules than there are entries in a cookbook. |
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Try out your dueling skills and use your Force Powers against another player! |
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The dual-bladed Lightsaber preferred by many Consulars requires a skilled approach to dueling. |
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Your skills will need to be at their best to stand toe to toe with Master Windu in the dueling ring! |
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As the band lets the dueling guitars heat up, Johnson barks like a flea market pitchman, bargaining with wary shoppers for humanism and attention. |
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It is not without reason that the formal rules of boxing, judo, fencing and even dueling require that the combatants salute each other before the engagement. |
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This campaign will witness a stark battle of dueling strategic viewpoints. |
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Accounts differ as to whether he missed on purpose, an act known in dueling as a delope. |
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Such laws may seek to balance dueling needs for preservation and harvest and to manage both environment and populations of fish and game. |
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Given that honor was at stake, the appropriate method for the United States Navy to redeem itself was by dueling. |
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Epee is the modem version of the historical dueling sword. |
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Then he created a modified dueling tree, featuring six steel targets that swung from one side of a central column to the other when shot. |
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Anyway, Eric kept humming some dueling banjos song and talking about people who marry their first cousins. |
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My family at times seem to think they are aristocrats, at other times I swear I can hear the muffled sound of dueling banjos. |
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His skills with a Lightsaber helped him survive the deadly opening of the First Battle of Geonosis, and he should not be underestimated in the dueling ring! |
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As in others of my works, the percussionists are separated stereophonically on the stage, and their dueling tambourines provide a lively rhythmic counterpoint to the central staccato motif first heard in the piccolo. |
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One reason for the continuous recycling of this debate is that, until recently, we had little concrete evidence to test these dueling perspectives on the impact of multiculturalism. |
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Now, I'm not going to go into all the ins and outs of economic modeling, nor am I going to engage in dueling economists, but I do want to underline a few points. |
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Changing your dueling configuration can help you win fights. |
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Cased pair of presentation dueling pistols, cal. |
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The state's action here served to ambiguate a gentleman's duty, and thereby facilitated the transformation of the social meaning of dueling itself. |
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Stick to music that has lots of harmony, and if you ever meet your mirror image, don't try to out-pick him and don't take him grouse hunting. It becomes dueling banjos. |
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One of the more unusual shooting events in 1908 was dueling. |
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If you have a friend or family member to shoot with, Action Target's dueling tree is loads of fun. It has six steel plates that swing from side to side. |
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Their tools were computers and when three or four engineers surrounded a car and plugged in, the scene wasn't dueling banjos. It was dueling laptops. |
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It also features an all-star cast of musicians that includes guitarist Bryan Sutten, dueling mandolinists Chris Thile and Sam Bush, and Phish's Trey Anastasio on guitar. |
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