And I was a mere novice, while Yuri was regarded as the most expert dueliston all Poros.
There was a cave in the hills below the village which he intended to occupy; for, although Adele was in his hands, only half of the mission which he had been intrusted with by the duelist was accomplished.
Why do you call him my duelist and bravo, de Galisonnière?
That an unknown hunter should prove himself a better swordsman than your great duelist and bravo, Boucher.
The great duelist who had ruffled it so grandly through the inns and streets of Paris looked with growing terror into the stern, accusing eyes that confronted him.
He was a duelist of national fame, in those days when the border duels were fought with knife instead of pistol.
To be famed as a duelist is no worthy claim to admiration, but to fight hand to hand with knife for weapon is significant of high courage.
It so happened that a detachment of Royal Cravattes had sought temporary quarters in the same town; and among the officers was a certain Comte de Champagne, a great duelist and gamester.
In a few hours, as he had expected, he was called to the field, and presented himself before the great duelist with a phlegmatic humor which completely upset the count's own self-possession.
A duelist would lunge and thrust with the whip-sword, allowing its mobile point some degree of freedom by controlling it deftly.
Thou dost flank duelist by two words that should scorn being so separated!
Tis St. Mar, a fine fellow; a soldier, duelistand gallant.
The very highest concern of a true man of honor is to keep the law of God, which the duelist breaks; and to keep the law of the land, which the duelist breaks.
The duelist may have many motives, but "honor" cannot be one of them!
The duel created a sensation throughout the kingdom, for although little was known as to who Judson was, his fame as a duelist was as broad as the land.
This Judson was a Scotch gentleman of whom very little was known, except that he was counted the most deadly and most cruel duelist of the time.
Unlike the others, however, it did not break, and the thrust revealed the fact that Judson's skill as a duelist lay in a shirt of mail which it was useless to try to pierce.
The practiced duelist laughed grimly in his mustache, as he might have done on discovering the weak point in his enemy's ward which laid him open to his rapier.
