They accordingly fought without seconds by the dim light of a single candle; and, although Mr Chaworth was the more skilful swordsman of the two, he received a mortal wound; but he lived long enough to disclose some particulars of the rencounter, which induced the coroner's jury to return a verdict of wilful murder, and Lord Byron was tried for the crime.

Besides, he was an admirable swordsman.

In peace, accomplished in the arts of great Apollo's choir, In war, the brilliant swordsman that Mars might well admire.

You must prevent the duel somehow, for mylord Edouard is a dangerous swordsman.

Only he bore hard on the unremitting, callous, impulsive aggressiveness of a fierce past age, with its survival of the fittest swordsmen and buccaneers, which had no heroes for him except the painters, poets, and thinkers it gave to posterity.

With an impatient gesture, peculiarly graceful, like the half-salute of a friendly swordsman ere you draw and stand on guard: "Read the forest with me.

He had in fact done mischievously what the Gracchi would have done beneficently; and greedy swordsmen occupied the soil which the tribunes would have divided peaceably among peaceable men.

Without Sulla's personal vices he might have played Sulla's part as a politician, and his atrocities in Spain as well as his remark on the death of Tiberius Gracchuswords breathing the very essence of a narrow swordsman's natureshowed that from bloodshed at all events he would not have shrunk.

Because this philosophic swordsman holds the sword, let no one think that he knows not how to wield it.

He must learn to hold his mind in check, and to be master of that also, as well as of his lower passions; he must patiently labor to acquire absolute control of his thoughts, so that he will always know exactly what he is thinking about, and whyso that he can use his mind, and turn it or hold it still, as a practiced swordsman turns his weapon where he will.

" Warding off with the skill of a professed swordsman every blow aimed at him, he coolly measured his own thrusts, inflicting severe wounds on his enemies' faces and heads; but the more he evaded them the more furious they became.

The man will kill me; granted, for he is my junior by some fifteen years, and is in addition a skilled swordsman.

It is good for him to make fertile land, to invite ships, to import jewels of price from across the sea, to purchase and distribute raiment, to keep vigorous swordsmen who may protect his territory, to make war beyond his territory, to attend to the sick, to discipline his soldiers.

You discern in his battles and single combats the poet ambitious of renown, and the accomplished swordsman.

In an instant the place resounded like a smithy, for there were no better swordsmen living than these two.

In the shadows at the other end, the amazed Maghrabi swordsmen hesitated one precious moment.