You yourself have witnessed his feats in the salle d'armes; you have seen him disarm in swift succession the best fencers among your officers.
We have here," continued Zabern, "the six best fencers in Czernova after the duke.
I fear I am too highly appraised," he modestly remarked, "when I am placed among the seven best fencers in Czernova.
Hippias would teach thee in a week to hold thine own against the best fencers in Rome.
If Gerard kills you, I shan't have the pleasure of crossing swords with "one of the first fencers in Paris," which it will amuse me to do.
Septmonts--I believe I am one of the best fencers in Paris.
Also at the end of 1881 he 'started a local fencing club in my own street, and trained some good fencers there, and used to get away to fence there whenever I could find time in the evening hours.
The maitre d'armes was senior master at the London Fencing Club, and many young fencers joined these parties to gain experience.
But just then, as luck would have it, one of the fencers started after the inspector, hailing him as "Hi, mister!
Now was the critical moment--there were certain prearranged signals between Dave's party and the fencers which might have interested the inspector, but none to meet a case like this.
Fencers of small stature must be exceedingly quick on their feet, unless they possess the art of parrying to perfection, and even then, if slow to shift ground, they will continually be in danger.
English fencers who were members of these international teams were Lord Desborough, Theodore A.
They marched at once upon a fortified town in which a large force of Fencers were reported to be established.
The Fencers fled in confusion, and at least two-thirds of the population fled with them, fearing the vengeance of the foreigners.
There's an army of at least forty thousand Fencers over there to the northwest and another twenty-five thousand in the northeast.
And let any hooke draw you either to a Fencers supper, or to a Players that acts such a part for a wager; for by this meanes you shall get experience, by beeing guilty to their abhominable shauing.
The cloud of young men at the window had shut out the light, while the cries and stamps of the fencers who had carried on through all the tumult came in now suddenly like a solo after a chorus.
John, in his impatience--but he checked himself, for the fencershad put up their foils and were preparing to move.
A more elaborate salute, called by the French the Mur, consists of a series of parries, lunges and other evolutions carried out by bothfencers at the same time.
Stop thrusts are employed mostly against fencers who attack wildly or without being properly covered.
Bouts between fencers take place on a platform about 24 ft.
Thus, if both fencersare in the position of quarte, they are said to be engaged in quarte.
It is a common stratagem of fencers whose reach is short.
Double Hit," when both fencers attack and hit at the same time; neither hit counts.
At the present time, however, many of the best Italian fencers have adopted the guard with crooked sword-arm, owing to their abandonment of the old long-foil blade.
In the hall the fencers were so overwhelmed by their belligerent feelings that solemn silence reigned.
He knew better than their own relations the biography of all the great duelists and fencers in Paris, and he could give a detailed and minute description of all the duels that had taken place, with their accompanying wounds.
He is one of the keenest fencers in the House, delighting to make even a small point against his opponents, though it be at the expense of a great deal of elaboration.
The first couple of fencers were succeeded by Monsieur Planton and Monsieur Carapin, a civilian master and a military one.
The fencers had shown much vigor, and played somewhat loosely.
Every time that one of the fencers lunged a thrill of pleasure ran through the public.
Around them were chatting old and young gentlemen in frock coats, who bore a family resemblance to the fencers in fighting array.
First of all there is a class of fencers who do not fence and never will.
Bring together the principal fencing-masters of Paris, and ask them to write on a slip of paper the names of the two best fencers in Paris.
Fencers would now lie on the ground, would avoid a thrust by ducking their head, aim below the belt, and reduce all the qualities of the fencer to one only: rapidity.
I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it, after the manner of fencers in England.
At once, Lemoine sprang back out of danger, the two points dropped, the two fencers stood back to take breath.
But the fencers had done little more than feel one another's blades, they had certainly not exchanged more than half a dozen serious passes, before this was changed, before one face grew longer and another more intent.
Poets we know are nothing if not first-rate, but why should fencers be singled out for this invidious distinction?
For among the noisy crowd, who would have liked to set their fads upon a pinnacle, one found fencers of experience, men who by long training and the use of scientific method had acquired sound judgment and thorough workmanship.
The first is between twofencers of the classical school, to use the conventional phrase.
There is a class of fencers who are thoroughly--in fact too thoroughly--convinced that they are very dangerous fellows, and that they are never hit.
Do you seriously believe that these fencers are devoid of science, because they refuse to be judged by your standard, or because they try to obtain new results, where you persist in seeing nothing but annoying tricks?
I was listened to with attention, though there were few fencers present.
For, I repeat, it is very rare to find two fencers so evenly matched in this respect that the risk is equally divided.
You are required to engage swords by the rules of the game; only bad fencers attempt to avoid the engagement.
I will describe three kinds of play, which are adopted by fencers according to fancy.
If both combatants are good fencers and cautious it sometimes happens that neither is touched, but as many as thirty slight wounds are occasionally inflicted on both sides.
He was one of those fencers who seem to work awkwardly, but who sometimes puzzle their adversaries more than any professional master of the art.
He drew himself up, and, foils in hand, bowed, asfencers do at the salute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fencers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
