It is clear that A can have at most two hearts; consequently, if Y leads his tierce major in hearts, he must lose the game, as the opponents have two by honours.
A high thrust which I diverted too late with the parade of tierce drew blood freely.
He fleshed me again on the riposte by a one-two feint in tierceand a thrust in carte.
It was only a matter of ten minutes, and then, fleeing to right and left, the enemy was springing up among the rocks or plunging into the river to escape the tierce little regiment they had sought to destroy.
The hour of tierce was now come, and neither of the parents had yet entered in the chamber where the children lay, but the father went heavily for reason of their death.
Thereupon, incontinent they drove together, and with mighty strokes strove one against the other from the hour of tierce till it was nones.
Towards tierce he awoke and the street door being now open, he made a show of returning from otherwhere and went up into his house and dined.
And as that famous great tierce is mystically carved in front, so the whale's vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun.
I made her a long social visit, and, before leaving Columbia, gave her a half-tierce of rice and about one hundred pounds of ham from our own mess-stores.
Of pushing Tierce without, or on the Outside of the Sword.
Popular) Tierce à l’égout, tierce of nine at the game of piquet.
With similar hands weaker in the tierce major suit, accept unless the fifth card is a queen.
One trump and a tierce major is too weak, unless the fifth card is a court card.
There was no time to lose in feints and flourishes; the man with the torch had drawn his sword, and was coming up; and Rupert parried a thrust of his assailant's, and with a rapid lunge in tierce ran him right through the body.
Now let us practise that thrust in tierce after the feint and disengage.
Fencing) Defn: A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.
Afterwards the whole convent, having performed their ablutions and broken their fast, proceeded again to the church, and the bell was rung for tierce at 9 a.
After tiercecame the morning Mass, and as soon as that was over they marched in procession to the chapter-house for business and correction of faults.
Tierce is the first division of the canonical hours of the day, from six to nine; nones, the third, from twelve to three.
Florence, within the ancient circle wherefrom she still takes both tierce and nones,[4] was abiding in sober and modest peace.
But as it is more than I ought to expect under the circumstances, I will give them half a tierce of tobacco as a mea alofa (a gift of friendship).
First, I dealt with a tierce that proved full of salt beef.
I had a mind for a lighter drink than brandy, and went to the lazarette and cut out a block of the wine in the cask I had opened; I also knocked out the head of a tierce of beef, designing a hearty regale for supper.
Terms signifying the stipends falling to those bound to choir office who were present at the recitation of Tierce and Sext.
This letter announced a small barrel of biscuit, a tierce of wine, a half tierce of brandy, and a Dutch cheese.
Our provisions consisted of a barrel of biscuit, and a tierce of water; and, to add to our misfortune, the biscuit being soaked in the sea, it was almost impossible to swallow one morsel of it.
Florence, within the ancient boundary From which she taketh still her tierce and nones, Abode in quiet, temperate and chaste.
They were seized with great thirst, whereupon a vessel of whey was taken to them from Patrick, who persuaded them to observe abstinence from tierce to vesper time.
From vespers on Sunday night untiltierce on Monday Patrick would not come from the place where he might be.
Is specially applied to provision casks, and is the third of a pipe; but the beef-tierce contains 280 lbs.
