But if I am to write a letter, let me begin, and not stand flourishing like a fencer at a fair.

Its movements are as the sword-play of an alert, poised, well-knit, strong-wristed fencer with the rapier, in which the skill impresses one more than the force, while without the force the skill would be valueless, even hurtful, to its possessor.

Shall I bee that Germane Fencer and beat all the knocking boyes before me?

Nares quotes from the Owles Almanacke, 1618, p. 6, an allusion to this worthy,'Since the German fencer cudgell'd most of our English fencers, now about 5 moneths past.'

The skilful fencer who attacks your doubts and drives you from corner to corner of unbelief and leaves you at last in doubt whether you doubt or not, does you a certain service.

He looked at Tudor with the measuring eye of a fencer.

He was not a fencer like Abélard, displaying wonderful dexterity in the use of sophistries, overwhelming adversaries by wit and sarcasm; arrogant and self-sufficient, and destroying rather than building up.

This is no flattery; Hamlet believes Laertes, to whose praises he has listened (218)though not with the envy his uncle attributes to himthe better fencer: he expects to win only 'at the odds.'

can a prisoner Glory in playing the Fencer?

He is a fencer of language, that falsifies his blow and hits where he did not aim.

He is impregnable to all assaults but that of a greater impudence, which, being stick-free, puts him, like a rough fencer, out of his play, and after passes upon him at pleasure, for when he is once routed he never rallies again.

On the other hand, they are bruised into a knowledge of themselves and others; they have in a high degree the fencer's pleasure in dexterity displayed and proved; what they get they get upon life's terms, paying for it as they go; and once the talk is launched, they are assured of honest dealing from an adversary eager like themselves.

Faustina the empress doted on a fencer.

But if I am to write a letter, let me begin, and not stand flourishing like a fencer at a fair.

Nice surefooted fencer.

"Had it been a bull or a panther, they would have had their bones shivered to pieces by the tremendous blows which Boone dealt upon his adversary with all the strength of despair; but Bruin is by nature an admirable fencer, and, in spite of his unwieldy shape, there is not in the world an animal whose motions are more rapid in a close encounter.

He is such a master of English, so judicious in the use of middle terms,so shrewd a fencer altogether,that even his timidity cannot make him other than a formidable opponent.

Plenty of them can jump if one dare ride them, but he's really an extraordinary fencer.

Merriwell was an expert fencer.

If up to quite two stone more than his rider's weight, and a safe and temperate fencer, he will carry you well up with hounds over any country.

Then he has a fine voice for singing, he touches the guitar so as to make it speak, and handles a foil as well as any fencer in Spain.

Green was watching her also, but, keen as the twist of a rapier in the hand of a practised fencer, his eyes flashed to meet the squire's.

An officer stood among the French skirmishersa tall, lean man with a mantle over his shouldersand as our fellows came forward he ran out midway between the two parties and stood as a fencer would, with his sword up and his head back.

As the fencer has his hour of practice with the foils so as to keep his hand in, so women practise with sentimental foils.

Four Flaunders Mares would have been easier to me, and a Fencer.