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He rushed in again, mad with anger. "Worse and worse, captain," said his young opponent. "You're not showing a single quality of a swordsman. You've nothing but strength. I bade you have a care! Now your right cheek is a match for your left!" The captain uttered a cry, drawn as much by anger as by pain.
With these words he turned his plate bottom upwards, as a sign that he would not eat, and relapsed into glum silence. “Pan Dobrzynski,” said General Dombrowski to him, “are you that famous swordsman of the Kosciuszko times, that Maciej, called Switch! Your fame has reached me. And pray tell me, is it possible that you are still so hale, so vigorous! How many years have gone by!
Marie broke it: "Speaking of Madame de Relzieres, do you know that she is on pins and needles with anxiety? Her son is fighting a duel to-day," she said. "With whom?" said Sonia. "No one knows. She got hold of a letter from the seconds," said Marie. "My mind is quite at rest about Relzieres," said Germaine. "He's a first-class swordsman. No one could beat him."
I take Captain Gil Uraga to be as thorough a poltroon as ever wore epaulettes, but he will have to meet you on my account; and he would perhaps have done so anyhow trusting to the probability of your being a bad swordsman." "In that he may find himself disappointed." "I am glad to hear it; and now it only needs to receive your instructions. I am ready to act."
The feeling that I had once more to do with a man of like aims and passions with myself quickly restored me to the use of my faculties; as I have heard that a swordsman opposed to the powers of evil regains his vigour on finding himself engaged with a mortal foe.
"I had only the honour of meeting him yesterday," Philip said, as they sat down to table; "but he behaved like a true gentleman, and did me the honour of being my second, in an unfortunate affair into which I was forced." "Who was your opponent, may I ask, sir?" "Count Raoul de Fontaine." "A doughty swordsman!" Gaston de Rebers exclaimed; "but one of our bitterest opponents in this province.
Captain Perez was a veteran soldier, and was the most expert swordsman in the army. He was famed for his quarrelsome disposition; had already fought many duels, in which he had invariably killed his man. In a rencontre between the youthful De Soto and the veteran Captain Perez, there could be no doubt in the mind of the governor as to the result.
"You look like a kind of a clergyman, sir." "And that is what I am," replied the other a touch defiantly. "I am in Holy Orders in my own humble way." He began pacing once more. "We all have our weaknesses, sir.... My mother was mine.... She should have been the mother of saints rather than of a bully swordsman! I think that was the phrase?" cocking a blue eye at the boy.
At this moment the gladiator Tarautas, as nimble as a cat and as bloodthirsty as a hungry wolf, sprang on to one of the enemy's piled-up wagons, and a tall swordsman, with a bear-skin over his shoulder, and long, reddish-gold hair, flew to meet him. This was no sham German! Caracalla knew the man.
Hans, who did service to my brother as his second at Altenperg, after striving faithfully to make peace between the two, was witness how our Nuremberg swordsman, who had had the finest schooling at Erfurt, Padua, and Paris, not merely withstood the Brandenburger, but so far outdid him in strength and swiftness that the Junker fell into the arms of his friends with wounds in the head and breast, while Herdegen came forth from the fray with no more hurt than a slight scratch on the arm.
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