Such fancies are accepted among duelling men as the real sentiments that move and govern society.
Such an ornament lost to the chivalry of duelling accentuated their admiration of his after-type in Bob's second.
Duelling even in those days was fast falling into disuse, and I had to fly the country.
Duelling is a very wicked and a very silly practice, and does no credit to either party; therefore I hope you will never seek a quarrel, but do all you can to steer clear of pugnacious persons.
In the same manner he had to explain away that duelling charge.
Just look at the beauties," and opening a fine mahogany case, Tom disclosed a pair of highly finished duelling pistols.
What these adventures are it is needless to detail, save that they embrace a good deal of duelling and even more love-making.
There is a law against duelling in the streets of Madrid, and a certain spendthrift nobleman, Don Cæsar de Bazan, has rendered himself liable to death for protecting a poor boy named Lazarillo from arrest.
As the grip of slavery increased in strength and closed the mouth of every objector, anti-duelling sentiment was simultaneously extinguished.
The Savannah Anti-duelling Association offered a medal for the best argument against duelling.
Over the mantel in the library hung a pair of beautiful old duelling rapiers, and the Archduke snatched one down and tried its balance; then took the other and handed it to Bernheim.
Duelling was a serious crime in Valeria, even in the Army, and it was a particularly unfortunate moment for Bigler to offend; and especially as only the Governor of Dornlitz or the Regent could save him from punishment.
Duelling was an abominable sin, of course; but Ghisleri, at least, was alone in the world and could risk his soul and body without the danger of bringing unhappiness on others.
This would render duelling more select and respectable.
He was reforming the world, putting down vice, sending duelling out of fashion, and inculcating the lessons of the pulpit in a far more attractive form.
Neither has he any difficulty in making him the finest dancer in England, or giving him such marvellous skill with the small-sword that he can avoid the sin of duelling by instantaneously disarming his most formidable opponents.
Whilst for a revolver I advocate holding the thumb along the top of the grip, the stock is too straight for this hold with the duelling pistol, and the thumb must therefore be turned down.
Army pattern has a stock as pleasant to aim with as a duelling pistol.
Some people use this to give variety to the show; but I prefer a duelling pistol.
The challenged has the right to choose weapons, and if he choose pistols it is understood that the meeting should be conducted with single-shot duelling pistols.
And it is not an unmixed blessing that duelling is abolished in England as "Vanoc" in The Referee truly says.
Besides the grip and balance of the duelling pistol being different from those of the revolver, the pistol has to be raised from pointing to the ground, instead of from the hip level.
His view of duelling is the one which now prevails in most communities of English blood in all parts of the world.
With these exceptions, however, duelling among the English-speaking people has come to be regarded as both folly and crime.
So wrote Cowper in his "Conversation," nearly a century ago, when duelling was beginning to go out of fashion, even among men who did not look upon it from a religious point of view.
He had lived among men who held all human life, except their own, lightly, and to whom duelling and assassination were among the possibilities of every-day existence.
So prevalent, indeed, did the habit of duelling become, that in 1641 a resolution was passed in the Commons empowering the Speaker to arrest any member who either sent or received a challenge.
The practice of parliamentary duelling long continued, in spite of every effort to stifle it.
The Indian code does not treat as murder either duelling or helping Hindu widows to commit suttee (s.
After some grave remarks about duelling in an early paper (No.
Footnote 269: "While this barbarous custom of duelling is tolerated, we shall never be rid of coxcombs, who will defend their understandings by the sword, and force us to bear nonsense on pain of death.
I had suspended the business of duelling to a distant time, but that I am called upon to declare myself on a point proposed in the following letter.
The question being, not whether the practice of duelling is wrong, but whether Burr was wrong according to that practice, we have no difficulty in concluding that the challenge was given upon vague and unjustifiable grounds, and that Gen.
This service, of which the state has continued so obstinately ignorant, consists mainly in having invented filibustering, and in having brought duelling into disgrace by killing Hamilton.
Heretofore, the custom ofduelling had largely prevailed in the corps, and to this savage tribunal of arbitration a thousand petty questions of personal honor had been brought.
Duelling was a cure but no preventative, the killing being as frequent as the curing.
While this campaign continues, and as long as I am in charge of it, I am determined not to suffer upon any plea whatever the abominable practice of duelling among those under my command.
It would be easier to read if it were not for the duelling swords.
That some other nations consider the practice of duelling as altogether barbarous and antiquated, has nothing to do with the case in hand.
The spirit of their institutions is adverse to such laws; and duelling always has been, and always will be, one of the evils of democracy.
But the worst feature in the American system of duelling is, that they do not go out, as we do in this country, to satisfy honour, but with the determination to kill.
Many of the foreign target and duelling pistols of recent manufacture are made breech-loading, and loaded in the manner described.
On the morning of the trial for duelling Hall entered the court room, looking defiantly at Blount, and took his place full of apparent confidence--and with reason.
No matter how the trial for duelling turned out--and he shrewdly suspected Martin would refuse to appear in it--there was a great deal to be done before it came on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
