The duellists take stand by the stones, twelve paces apart.
At this the two intending duellists again set their steeds in motion; and, riding for a short distance along the shore-road, turn into another, which will take them to Punta Pedro.
He never swerved from his resolution to pursue all duellists with the utmost rigour, and many were executed in various parts of the country.
Every morning the most notorious bravos and duellists used to assemble at his house, to take a breakfast of bread and wine, and practise fencing.
The most inveterateduellists of the present day are the students in the Universities of Germany.
He said while in prison, that, if found guilty of murder, he should suffer as an example to duellists in Ireland; but he endeavoured to buoy himself up with the hope that the jury would only convict him of manslaughter.
The duellistsare imprisoned for a month in horrible cells.
This time mortal combat is postponed on account of the sanguinolence of a casual lunatic who worshipped blood to such a nauseating extent that the duellists deferred operations in order to chase him into a pond.
The duellists were standing at their marked lines, the seconds at a little distance alongside of them.
He said while in prison, that, if found guilty of murder, he should suffer as an example to duellists in Ireland; but he endeavoured to buoy himself up, with the hope that the jury would only convict him of manslaughter.
The scene of the duel is usually the back room of some beer-hall, with locked doors between the duellists and the police.
He made windmills, as the French duellists say, and though he was probably a shade the better fencer of the two, he found the other's point pass his face twice so close as almost to graze his cheek.
The little man plunged like a rabbit among the tall flowers, the two duellists after him.
Still, the two duellists stood with their swords as heavily as statues, and the silence seemed to cool the eccentric and call him back to more rational speech.
The moment the two duellists had pushed open the door of that inoffensive, whitewashed cottage they found that its interior was lined with fiery gold.
Before theduellists had exchanged half a dozen passes, the big, blue policeman appeared once more on the top of the hill, a palpable monstrosity in the eye of heaven.
But we, by the queerness of our position, are something much more than either duellists or gentlemen.
All duellists should behave like gentlemen to each other.
It was incongruous with the eccentric spectacle of the duellists which ought to have startled a sane and free man.
So great was the confusion, and so great the zeal of the patriots, that even the pleasure of ducking the femaleduellists was forgotten in the general enthusiasm.
Again they looked at each other, those two, with the careful glance with which you might expect two duellists to regard each other--two duellists who had a premonition that one day they would surely cross their swords.
There the usual formalities were settled by the other officer and myself, whereupon the two duellists made ready and waited for the signal to begin, which fell to my lot to give.
More than once the duellists stopped as if by mutual consent, to regain breath, then quickly facing each other again, fought more determinedly than ever.
Ivan Rachieff is one of the most skilful duellists with sword or pistol in the Czar's army," said the woman, who had been an attentive observer of all that passed between the two men.
The duellists stood, each with eye intent upon the door, by which he was to make entrance-- perhaps into eternity!
It was the morning of the 22d of September when the duellistsarrived in the town.
Mr. Lott was not long in finding out what was on foot, and as soon as the duellists had departed, he drove to Carrollton, where he knew that Colonel John J.
The two men, seated face to face, looked at each other much like two duellists about to cross their blades.
For some little time the two men stood thus face to face, looking at each other with the dogged resolution of two duellists who are watching an opportunity to close.
The worst had happened, and, as the Padre had feared, the duellists had first shot him and then each other.
Any of those hollows, he knew, might prove to contain the duellists in the very act of firing, and over the rim of each he had to pop his unprotected head.
The one person who might be presumed to know more than anybody else was the Padre, but while he was with the duellists, it was as impossible to ask him what had happened as to ask the duellists who had won.
Naturally Diva could not help remembering that she had found Miss Mapp and the Padre in earnest conversation together when she forced her way in that morning with the news that the duellists had left by the 11.
But it all required thinking over, and the sight of the Padre and the duellists crossing the field below, as she still lingered on this escarpment of the hill, brought the duel back to her mind.
That certainly was a good thing, for the duellists if closely questioned might have a different explanation, and it would be highly inconvenient to have two contradictory stories going about.
We duellists are familiar with this sort of thing, my lord; a great deal more so than most medical men, and you may depend upon what I say.
The places taken by the duellistswere determined by lot.
But at that moment the water from the fish-pond, whose sluices had been thrown wide open by old Paul, came rushing over the dike in such a volume as entirely to submerge the burning bridge and leave the duellists in darkness.
The duellists were surely at it over his very head.
The duellists stared in utter amazement, and instinctively lowered their weapons; for she had put herself right in their line of fire with a recklessness that contrasted nobly with her fear for others.
Whereupon the duellists and seconds stood respectfully aloof, in a mixed group, and watched with eager interest and pity.
It shall be an American duel, and only the death of either of the duellists shall put an end to it!
When they clapped for the first time, the two duellists raised the hand with the pistol, fixing their angry and threatening eyes on each other.
Goodall, witness against Lord Warwick, arrival of the duellistsat the Bagnio, ii.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duellists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
