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Sentence Examples
Giganti had seven guards, but only really employed two, corresponding to the modern quarte and tierce.
You might sink an additional trio or tierce if the three points gained would cause you to fail to win the cards.
This probably accounts for the tierce de Picardie, the practice of ending a composition in a minor mode upon a major triad.
Actually, France tierce, which as paid millions of francs on minimal wager, is strictly an off-course operation.
Currently, the government tax is 12 per cent on simple pools such as win, place and quinella, and 20 per cent on exotic bets like tierce, double tierce and triple tierce.
Beginning in the relative major it marches through just about every key until finally finishing off with a densely orchestrated, most satisfying tierce de Picardie.
Examples from Classical Literature
When your opponent thrusts in quarte, you need only do this, and when they thrust in tierce, you need only do this.
The Abbey court sat in the chapter-house at the canonical hour of tierce, which was nine in the forenoon.
Mr. Barradas opened the tierce of tobacco, and Pan and toea and I dug out the nasty sticky layers with sheath knives.
One trump and a tierce major is too weak, unless the fifth card is a court card.
The ripostes, or reply thrusts, are made as they would have been had the parade been that of tierce.
They engaged in tierce, and Andre-Louis led the attack by a beat and a straightening of the arm.
This day I sent my cozen Roger a tierce of claret, which I give him.
It is rather more delicate than tierce, but wants its power and energy.
Application of a tierce of all escheats to the use of public works.
And he killed him with a beautiful feint and thrust in tierce.
So the tierce was reprieved till after supper, a guard sett over it.
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