31 examples of duelist in sentences

You have the eyes of a duelist!

But Reeve, standing erect like some duelist of old, his left hand tucked into the hollow of his back, took the great gambling chance and refused to shoot to kill.

"Fernando," said Terrence, grasping his arm firmly, as if to instill into him some of his own hope and confidence, "Fernando, although you're only a boy, I've no fear of your courage; but this Lieutenant Matson is a famous duelist, and he will try to shake your nerve.

No experienced duelist ever entered into the business with more earnestness or zeal than Terrence Malone.

It is not true courage that makes the duelist.

The expression on Sukey's face was too ludicrous for even the young duelist, and he laughed in spite of himself.

Then, drawing away from the prisoner, he contemplated him with the same enthusiasm, but more reflectively, and observed: "Yes, baron, you far exceed me in the use of the sword; you are the greatest duelist of the day, and a man of your caliber must not remain longer in prison.

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The Italian who, in a fit of rage, falls upon his aggressor wherever he finds him, and despatches him without any ceremony, acts, at any rate, consistently and naturally: he may be cleverer, but he is not worse, than the duelist.

It was strictly a case of nothing more to say by either duelist.

Luck, Sir Chaps, in your new vocation!" That evening, while the Doge took down the David and set a fragment from the frieze of the Parthenon in its place, Little Rivers talked of the delightful news that it was not to lose its strange story-teller and duelist.

As might be expected, Frank, soon after entering the army, got into an "affair of honor," according to the duelist's code of laws.

The signal to fire is given, and both weapons are discharged, and when the smoke had cleared away, what a spectacle was there presented to the duelist and spectator?

The breakers of all laws human and divine,the makers of counterfeit money, the forgers of land titles, the stealers of horses, robbers, murderers, thieves and criminals of every sort and condition, the fine gentleman and the ruffian, the duelist and the assassinall

A Duelist From Marburg VIII.

It will always be to me a shrine of the spirit's splendid daring. Chapter VII A Duelist From Marburg

The umpire forthwith cried "Los," there was a flash of swords in the air as each duelist sought, and sometimes succeeded, in cutting his opponent's face into a Hamburg steak.

Thus, in the words bordeller, chapellany, chapelling, gospellary, gospeller, gravelly, lamellate, lamellar, lamellarly, lamelliform, and spinellane, he has written the l double, while he has grossly corrupted many other similar words by forbearing the reduplication; as, traveler, groveling, duelist, marvelous, and the like.

[Illustration: "TIGER" ROCHE, A FAMOUS IRISH DUELIST, BORN IN DUBLIN 1729.]

As a duelist he was feared because of his specialty.

He approached it with anxiety, and found his wife's cousin, the doughty duelist, lying pale and lifeless on the threshold.

Katherine swung low her battledore and breathed forth: "Let us listen; 'tis sweet, who plays, dost know?" "'Tis St. Mar, a fine fellow; a soldier, duelist and gallant.

" "'Thou dost flank duelist by two words that should scorn being so separated!'" "'Twas a happy wording; for if thou shouldst meet him, thou wilt fall but two-thirds in love, whereas, if otherwise worded 'twould be altogether.

Berry learned from his elders that their master was a noted duelist and owned several fine pistols some of which have very bloody histories.

He was a renowned duelist, and deemed a challenge the essential element and result of every unsettled discussion.

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