An epee is well balanced and light in hand when, on poising the blade across the forefinger, about 1 in.
In 1906 the Amateur Fencing Association for the first time recognized the best-placed Englishman, Edgar Seligman (who was the actual winner), as the English epee champion.
School of Arms, Lincoln's Inn, the first English open epee tournament for amateurs.
The side of the epee which is usually held uppermost is slightly concave, the other is strengthened with a midrib, nearly equal in thickness and similar in shape to either half of the true blade.
Among foreign amateurs who did most to promote the use of the epee in England were Messrs P.
In considering the epee from a British point of view, it may be mentioned that it was first introduced publicly in London by C.
An average epee weighs, complete, about a pound and a half, while a foil weighs approximately one-third less.
This was immediately followed by the institution of the Epee Club of London, which, under the successive residencies of a veteran swordsman, Sir Edward Jenkinson, and of Lord Desborough, subsequently held annual open international tournaments.
In 1906 a British epee team of four, consisting of Lord Desborough, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Bart.
The method of ascertaining the victor in epee "tournaments" is by dividing the competitors into "pools," usually of six or eight fencers.
Deaf people in America converse with Red Indians with ease thereby, which shows how natural the generality of even de l'Epee signs are.
With the sole exception of de l'Epee no teacher had yet undertaken the instruction of a deaf child who could not pay for it.
But de l'Epee was the first to attach great importance to signs; and he used them, along with writing, until the pupil had some knowledge of language before he passed on to articulation and lip-reading.
This was introduced into France by Pereire and taught to the Abbe de l'Epee by Saboureux de Fontenay, the gifted pupil of Pereire.
Then another of the King's mucketeers stood by with drawn epee until he had finished eating.
Rastignac scooped up with his epee one of the abandoned Skins flopping on the floor and threw it at the foremost guard.
Rastignac unsheathed hisepee and slashed it at the air.
The tip of his epee drove past a bewildered mucketeer's blade and entered the fellow's throat just below the chin.
He took the broad silk belt and the sheathed epee from Archambaud and buckled them around his waist.
What, monsieur, do you make souffles at the Epee Couronnee?
Come, off with you, my dear, and return quickly; above all things, do not dine at the Epee Couronnee!
The Hotel de l'Epee had one room to offer, at the price of twenty- five francs.
The Hotel de l'Epee had a reassuring air of mellow respectability, such as Chirac had claimed for it.
The Boyne having been much annoyed by the fire of Fort Fleur d'Epee and Grozier battery, was now warped a cable's length further from the shore.
With Fleur d'Epee fell Hog Island, and Fort Louis, an old fortification commanding the entrance into the harbour of Point a Pitre, which town also was taken possession of at the same time by Sir Charles Grey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
