When swordsmanship fails to keep this end in view, we may be very sure that it is off the track.
But ought we to condemn swordsmanship on that account?
Swords are not worn now, and swordsmanship as a necessary part of polite education has gone out of fashion.
I shall try to keep within bounds, and to advance a few simple arguments, to convince you that swordsmanship is neither so slow nor so perplexing as you are inclined to suppose.
The superb swordsmanship of their intended victim, however, was more than a match for them, and would, in all probability have triumphed of itself had not the contest been broken in upon in the manner already described.
Seeing that mere personal strength availed him but little, he fell back on his admirable swordsmanship and fought with coolness the most undaunted.
That day in the buried chamber beneath the palace of Salensus Oll I learned whatswordsmanship meant, and to what heights of sword mastery I could achieve when pitted against such a wizard of the blade as Solan.
Never in all my life have I seen such wondrous swordsmanship and such uncanny agility as that ancient bag of bones displayed.
The knight was holding his own splendidly with the three retainers, and for an instant Bertrade de Montfort stood spell-bound by the exhibition of swordsmanship she was witnessing.
Never was such bravery or such swordsmanshipin all the world before; never such a man.
All the bearing that the life of Jules de Vac has upon the history of England hinges upon but two of his many attributes--his wonderful swordsmanship and his fearful hatred for his adopted country.
By this time, he was several miles on his way to the coast and France; for he had recognized the swordsmanshipof the outlaw, and did not care to remain in England and face the wrath of both Norman of Torn and Simon de Montfort.
There were three subjects in her curriculum; French, swordsmanship and hatred of all things English, especially the reigning house of England.
What swordsmanshipdo they speak of that was remarkable?
Dyck had learned swordsmanship with as skilled a master as Ireland had known, and he had shown, in getting knowledge of the weapon, a natural instinct and a capacity worthy of the highest purpose.
We shall want our best wits and our best swordsmanship if we are to cope with him.
I have tested his swordsmanship in the salle d'armes with a view to this very event, and I know that the duke has no chance against him.
But this is not all; he has spoken to the king of you, praising both your swordsmanship and the benefit that I have derived from your teaching, and Richard desired him to send for you and to present you to him.
De Vere had a fair share of bravery, but the reports of the singular feats of swordsmanship by the young knights convinced him that he would have but small chance with either of them in a duel.
As far as swordsmanship goes, you can have no better instructor than your friend.
De Galisonnière was an artist with the sword himself, and he knewswordsmanship when he saw it.
Many of them had come from Paris, but they had never seen suchswordsmanship before.
Swordsmanship as he learnt and taught and saw it daily practised consisted of a series of attacks and parries, a series of disengages from one line into another.
The notice written in a big round hand announced that a young man of good address with some knowledge of swordsmanship was required by M.
It is no swordsmanship to run in like a bull and take more than you give," observed Euchenor, listening with his arms folded, and an expression of supreme contempt on his handsome features.
Why should not you do the same thing in intellectual fencing--you, the devotee of the noblest swordsmanship known to man, the swordsmanship of the law?
The scope of investigation must therefore be confined to one kind of swordsmanship only: to that which depends on the regulated, artificial conditions of "single combat.
But as its restrictions are among the very elements which work to the perfection of the play, it is undoubtedly in the history of swordsmanship as applied to duelling (see DUEL) that we shall trace the higher development of the art.
Only a very small minority of the populace and a larger, but still small, minority of the gentry and nobility, take delight in the fine points of swordsmanship for themselves.
In the military sphere, Zen influence began as a special approach to swordsmanship and archery and ended as a disciplined contempt for death beyond what any other religion has inspired, save possibly in a few saints.
Whereas swordsmanship demands that man and weapon merge with no acknowledgment of one's opponent until the critical moment, archery requires the man to become detached from his weapon and to concentrate entirely upon the target.
Zen archery and swordsmanship seem almost a species of hypnotism.
As for fighting in action, as far as I have seen or heard, swordsmanship does not go for a great deal.
It is only when two officers happen to meet, in a fierce fight, thatswordsmanship becomes of importance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swordsmanship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
