This made him whistle low, "He's a fine swordsman," he said.

A shorn curl fell to the ground, the consummate skill of the swordsman averted all further contact between his blade and the Christian, who remained erect and smiling, without having moved a muscle or an eyelash.

The swordsman had offered insult to a femalean occasion upon which no odds against him could have prevented the interference of Lovel.

I have read somewhere, as doubtless have you, because it has wandered throughout the newspapers of the world, the story of a famous Russian officer, famous, too, as a great swordsman, who once faced a brown bear robbed of her young, and beat her into insensibility, since his blows were swifter and more adroit than those delivered by her great forearms.

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.

In Egypt the Emperor kept away from him, for the Arabs would not look at the little General when this fine horseman and swordsman was before them.

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

It was immediately after his interview with M. de Treville that D'Artagnan, well trained at home as a swordsman, quarrelled with the three musketeers.

But not to me belongeth such a grace, And, were it mine, 'tis not in amorous shade To river music that such song is made: The song that moves the battle on awoke To the stern rhythm of the swordsman's stroke, The song that fans the city's weary face Sprang not afar from out some leafy place, But bubbled spring-like in its dingiest lane From out a heart that shared the city's pain;

I'll bet Diamond is an expert swordsman, and he's just the kind of a chap to lose his head and run you through the body!

We are alone here, and though I have no doubt that you are an excellent swordsman, you can hardly hope to hold your own against the best blade in the six light cavalry brigades.'

A braver man and a worse swordsman I have never met.

The other I had left fighting with Tremeau, and if he escaped from the old swordsman he had still to pass me.

severity, than with forbearance; and indeed, where is the expert swordsman, who does not delight in the flourish of his weapon?

I BECOME A FAMOUS SWORDSMAN "Sergeant," I said shortly, "I think you can be of greater service in the hall.

"He's a fine swordsman, and probably the only question is how badly he'll try to hurt you.

" "He is a swordsman, yes, but does not profess to excel with the sabre.

Your father convinced him I was an expert swordsman, and consequently he chose derringers, believing they would be to his advantage.

" 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.

CLEMENCEAUX, GEORGES BENJAMIN, French politician, born in La Vendée; bred to medicine; political adversary of Gambetta; proprietor of La Justice, a Paris journal; an expert swordsman; b. 1841.

I have now a faded letter from Ethan Allen, grim old warrior, in which he calls my father "the best swordsman that ever straddled a horse."

On my word, he was the quickest swordsman I ever had the honor of facing.

Ganelon, taking advantage of the usual privilege to have his cause defended by a champion, selected Pinabel, the most famous swordsman of the time.

The first is associated with "a house with curtained windows," "an Italian swordsman," "entombed," and "a maimed lion," and the second is developed in chapters headed, "The Hunter lets fly a Poisoned Shaft," "The Silver Dish of Tarts," "The First Victim Falls," "A Dreadful Accuser," and last, but not least, "The Vengeance is Crowned."

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.