The effect of the approaching duel upon the old gentleman was somewhat remarkable.
His knowledge was like a rapier of finest steel skilfully used in his duel with his mysterious masked combatant, the alchemist on guard at nature's secretest laboratory.
Certainly, if one of the principals has by his cowardly conduct made the duel impossible.
The challenged did not refuse the challenge, but said that as he was of weak constitution, shortsighted and without practice with any kind of weapons, he chose the American duel of drawing lots!
I explained that in such a case a duelwas customary, and in fact necessary; if he wished to avoid it, he would be forced to leave the academy.
The artillery duel of the 18th of July ended disastrously for the advance guard of the Federals--a temporary check was given.
Those revolts and wars had nothing to do with the fundamental laws of the State, and could no more have overturned the throne than a duel could have done so.
Your fine duel with Monsieur de Coutenan about the pretty little pin-maker,--he even spoke of it to the King.
If this wasn't a duel I wouldn't stay here another minute," he said.
Which after all, I think, was the best way to decide a duel of that sort.
Jimmieboy," said the major, his voice husky with emotion, "any other person than yourself would have had to fight a duel with me for casting such a doubt as you have just cast upon my courage.
When morning broke, clear and bright after the night's storm, the duel was resumed.
Upon the merits of the question it fought a furious journalistic duel with the Enquirer, the government organ at Richmond, which insisted that President Davis would not abuse his power.
North and South, men watched that tremendous duel with the feeling that the foundations of things were rocking.
If he would give the word, they would make the war a duel to the death; it should drag out in relentless guerrilla struggles; and there should be no pacification of the South until the fighting classes had been exterminated.
On this issue all the forces both of the Government and the opposition fought their concluding duel in which were involved all the other basal issues that had distracted the country since 1862.
The alderman then learnt that two of Hagentodt's Bengal tigers were having an altercation about a lady, and that it looked like a duel to the death.
In the protracted duel between the offending Manchester forward and the great, honest Jos Myatt he had given another point to the enemy.
But the duel between Shelburne and Fox must first be settled, and it was now about to be settled suddenly and in an unexpected manner.
This took place in August, 1773; theduel followed in December, and in the interval Franklin had heard nothing from the petition.
This was nothing less than to fight a duel for him, with a gentleman whose sister it was pretended he had used ill.
Readers of the Memoirs will remember the duel at Warsaw with Count Branicki in 1766 (vol.
But, instead of sacrificing immigrants, he, or his successors, establishes a duel between the priest and any other fugitive slave.
The rite of human sacrifice was, in Italy, commuted, Servius thinks, for the duel between the priest and the fugitive slave, Orestes having himself been a fugitive.
For they had quick fingers upon the pistol-trigger withal, and would rather fight a duel than eat--nay, drink.
No, he would fight him; and now opened a most extraordinary prairie duel between Warren Starr and his dusky enemy.
His comrades watched the opening and progress of the strange duelwith no misgiving as to the results.
The duel was one of vigilance, caution, skill, and watchfulness, with the chances against the white man.
Accustomed as are the Sioux to scenes of violence, it is not probable that any members of the party to whom we have been referring ever looked upon a sight so remarkable as the prairie duel between Starcus and the young rancher.
At one stage of this fight my attention was attracted to the coolness of a trooper, troop A, Sixth, who was having sort of a duel with a confederate.
It was a bold challenge for the confederates to come out and fight a duel to the finish.
Within sight of the fortifications, around that historic town, a duel was raging between the infantry of the two armies.
There is hardly any inn or tavern in the villages of the Southern Slavs on the front wall of which one cannot see a rough fresco illustrating the duel between Marko and Moussa.
Other renderings of this ballad have it that Maximus challenged Milosh to a duel in which the prince was victorious.
By my faith, Sire, it is not yet time for me to venture a duel with such a dangerous adversary as Moussa!
Thou must fight a duelwith him, either thyself or by a substitute.
He gave in full the story of Basil and Prusien, who quarrelled, and fought a duel to the scandal of the Church; whereupon Constantine VIII.
Aaron Burr, fresh from his duel with Hamilton, and under indictment in two States, had resumed his duties as Vice-President.
So furious became the altercation that a duel seemed possible.
It was in this building, in 1728, that the altercation began which ended in the first duel fought in Boston, when Benjamin Woodbridge was killed by Henry Phillips.
We have already noticed the part which he played in the literary duel between JarA-r and Farazdaq.
This unfortunate duel excited much feeling in the town, and some blame was attached to the seconds who promoted or advised the parties to fire a second time, when a reconciliation might have been effected.
The duel was fought in the grove at the Governor's north farm, near the Lady Hammond Road.
Footnote 77: William Bowie, killed in a duel with R.
Four days afterwards I received a letter from a surgeon in London, breaking to me the fearful news 'that my brother had died of a wound received in a duel with a certain Lord Dunstable.
The duel had taken place in the neighbourhood of Bayswater: my brother received his adversary's ball in the breast; and although he lived for some hours afterwards, he never spoke again.
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