But, although men in fencing wish to spare their adversaries, sometimes they find habit too strong for them, and lunge home in spite of themselves.
In the morning he rode on horseback; gave a lesson in fencing to his cousin Sigismund, the son of Madame de la Roche-Jugan; then shut himself up in the library until the evening, which he passed at bezique with the General.
When he was only seven or eight, Aimery was fencingwith a blunted sword.
From ten onward he took more regular fencing lessons, first from Sire Eustace; then from a professional master, a keen Gascon, hired by Conon.
After much delicate fencing on one side and the other, this was fixed for the 31st January.
The fencing took place between the Dean, acting on behalf of his daughter, and the ladies of the Manor Cross family generally.
A shopkeeper near him was hurriedly swinging steel shutters over his display of fencing equipment.
There were the exhibitions such as fencing bouts, bull fighting, and bear baiting.
WOLF BREED No Luck Drennan, a woman hater and sharp of tongue, finds a match in Ygerne whose clever fencing wins the admiration and love of the "Lone Wolf.
Thus attacked, he was like a brave but unskilful man fencing with adepts in the noble science.
The wire fencing had long been removed from the enclosure; it had gone to make a chicken-pen in a more suitable spot.
He had thoroughly studied the trick of disarming his adversary, a trick which is known to every French fencing master, but is thought little of by them.
Jack did not consider how he had led Frank into a duel with rapiers without knowing whether the fellow he hated had ever taken a fencing lesson in all his life.
To Frank it had seemed that the Virginian had no hesitation in taking advantage of an enemy, for Diamond must have presumed that Merriwell knew nothing of the art of fencing and swordplay.
Merriwell was regarded as more of a wonder than ever when it became generally known that he had twice disarmed the Virginian in a duel with rapiers--or a "fencing contest," as the matter was openly spoken of by those who discussed it.
But I suppose even in Japan it is only studied something like fencing is in our fencing schools, not as a part of the universal education.
Barbed wire fencing was in our way but the two wire cutters attached to each company soon made a gate for us.
Fuller reference to fencing at 76, Sloane Street and to his antagonists will be found in Chapter XLVII.
Footnote: Sir Charles's fencing seems to have dated from 1874, during his stay in Paris after his first wife's death.
After that's up we'll have lots of other fencing to be done.
The real fencing began with a question from Flora--if he was not surprised at seeing her there that evening.
I believe there may be flirting without the most distant idea of criminality--fencing with wooden foils, where no blood is drawn.
I fancy I can see Garrick's mimicry of a meeting between me and a fencing master.
This was a kind of fencing of which he had had no previous experience.
In the course of the day appointed by Mrs. Abington for her supper he met Baretti, and reminded him of the promise he had made to find an Italian fencing master and send him to Brick Court.
My friend Nicolo is a master of the art of fencing as practised in Italy in the present day.
He had ceased his pretence of breathing heavily, but apparently his right arm was tired, for he had thrown his sword into his left hand, and was now fencing from that side.
Your cheque last year, what with fencing and shearing, was over forty pounds for three months' work.
The prosecution challenged the necessity for such a question, but after some verbalfencing between the lawyers and the judge it was allowed.
There fencing was practised with fleurets (thrusting swords), not rapiers, which Barop rightly believed had less effect upon developing the agility of youthful bodies.
Your fencing tells me that it is something which I have done which has hurt you, and I insist upon knowing what it is.
Then, without checking its headlong career, the car wrenched its way through the double lines of barbed wire, carrying away yards of fencing as it did so.
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