Bob Acres was not much for valor and he made an ass of himself when he went to fight a duel, yet one could have sat agreeably at mutton with him.

Quite a number of Tutt's friends were standing in the vicinity, having assembled to witness the duel, and Bill, as soon as Tutt fell to the ground, turned to them and asked if any one of them wanted to take it up for Tutt; if so, he would accommodate any of them then and there.

To attack here would have meant a long-drawn-out artillery duel, infantry would have had to advance over open ground under complete observation, and, while making a frontal attack, would have been exposed to enfilade fire from the 'Tank' system of works to the south-east.

There were six animals in the acre, two of them bullsand these bulls were fighting, while three cows and a yearling were huddled in a group watching the mighty duel.

"Then began a tremendous artillery duel that lasted for days," she said.

Denoisel saw her daily, but a certain coldness had set in between themhe thought that Renée held him responsible for not having prevented the duel, while Renée vaguely feared that Denoisel had guessed her secret.

So I was obliged to conceal my real motives for desiring a duel, and I spoke strenuously of the gravity of the insult and the necessity of retribution.

I need not mention that during the tale's progress it is necessary to introduce at least one favorable mention of Lincoln, arrange a duel 'in de low grouns' immediately after day-break, and have the family silver interred in the back garden, because these points will naturally suggest themselves.

You may happen to regard the duel as an historic relic of the more barbaric States on which these modern States were built.

Florellus in the meantime becomes impatient at finding a rival in Bellula's love, and seeks a duel with Callidora.

The pianist Hummel, whom I always place with Clementi in a sort of musical Dunciad, is credited with having won a courtship duel against Beethoven, in which Clementi as the winneror was it the loser?married the woman.

Upon a grassy knoll shaded by stately trees occurred the historic duel between Warren Hastings, then governor general of India, and Mr. Francis, president of the council of state.

Mir. H'as studied duel too; take heed, he'll beat thee.

"The following conditions were proposed by Alexander K. McClung, of Raymond, in the State of Mississippi, to H.C. Stewart, as the laws to govern a duel they were to fight near Vicksburg: "Article 1st.

I went on to ask what part of America they were all going to, and how it would end, and so on; and Enid sketched the probable course of events, which included a duel for Lord Eustace and Mr. Ploot (who turned out to be not a millionaire at all, but a gentleman thief) and a very exciting time for the Lady Lily on a ranche in Texas, whither she had followed Jack Crawley, who was to become famous throughout the States as "The Cowboy King."

At first we indulged in the usual topic of university conversationduels, duels, and once again duels.

" "And I miss much pleasure and mayhap a duel with the marquis," I said, laughing; "

[Footnote 1: In a previous letter Walpole mentions the duel caused by a dispute at cards, in which Lord Byron was so unfortunate as to kill his cousin, Mr. Chaworth.]

Before twenty-four hours had passed over his duel with Lord Monteagle, he found himself branded by every journal in London, as an unprincipled and unparalleled reprobate.

Godmamma said to me that it was unheard of conduct, and might have produced a duel, and when I tried to explain to her that that was just what I had avoided, she looked angrier than ever, and would not understand.

"I suspected you of being a cold-blooded ruffian, when you proposed this duel; but I now see that you understand human nature better than the whole caboodle of us put together!

so like it, (you remember his duel with Canning,) that it is a pity it did not form a part of it.

"The artillerymen had resumed their duel and as we came up in the lee of the outbuildings of a deserted farmhouse a shell struck and fired the farmhouse immediately in front of us.

And some thirty years later, during a yachting excursion off the Scilly Isles, I saw an even more remarkable duel between a porbeagleas the Cornish people call the mackerel-sharkand a pipit, in which, strange to relate, the bird came off victorious.

In those days of large leisure and cyclonic bursts of excitement and activity; of midday siestas and moonlight serenadesand a duel, perchance, at sunrisethe spring rodeo was one of the year's events, to be looked forward to all winter by the vaqueros; and when it was over, to be talked of afterwards for months.