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Updated: May 17, 2025
Experience teaches us that the poets of an uncritical age Shakespeare, for example introduce the weapons of their own period into works dealing with remote ages. Hamlet uses the Elizabethan rapier. In his argument on bronze and iron, unluckily, Dr. Helbig deserts the judicious opinions of his note for the opposite theory of his text. Though Dr.
"Once in Spain, a gentleman the self-same Sir Thomas, was sorely set upon by a surly ruffian, who, in exchange for his purse, would have given him Paradise." Then with a deprecating wave of the hand, which he dropped on the hilt of his rapier, "'twas but a weakly blow I turned, and spitted the varlet with my good sword here.
In the costumes, it is true, the carping observer might have detected some flaws; notably in Adonis, a composite fashion plate, who strutted about in the large boots of the Low Countries, topped with English trunk hose of 1550; his hand upon the long rapier of Charles II, while a periwig and hat of William III crowned his empty pate!
You may be palming off a tale upon me. How did you propose to escape Rodrigo?" "By making my way through his house," answered Landon. "A likely tale. How are you to gain access to his house?" "A waiting maid was to let me in." "Well, I'll test your veracity. I have your life in my hands. You are unarmed; I have rapier and dagger. The experiment costs me nothing."
At the same moment De Noyan dropped the point of his rapier against the side of the boat, with a loud guffaw. "May the saints absolve me," he grinned, choking from merriment, "if it's not the red-headedest man ever my eyes looked upon."
"It is the real thing, a bit of the seventeenth century lost in the forest for two hundred years. It is like finding an old rapier beside an Indian trail. I suppose the fellow may be the descendant of some gay young lieutenant of the regiment Carignan-Salieres, who came out with De Tracy, or Courcelles. An amour with the daughter of a habitant, a name taken at random, who can unravel the skein?
His eyesight, though quick, as he was a proficient with the rapier, had never been strong. It had been steadily coming on for a dozen years before, and about 1650 the sight of the left eye was gone. He was warned by his doctor that if he persisted in using the remaining eye for book-work, he would lose that too.
And moreover, sir, as you do not seem inclined to lower your guard and go away, there is one! The long rapier flashed in the light of the lantern, and instantly Don Alberto's sword fell from his hand. Trombin had run him neatly through the right forearm, completely disabling him at the first thrust.
After this play had continued for some time, the snake was seen to draw in its head farther than usual, and the hawk, evidently somewhat off his guard, deeming this a fair opportunity, pounced forward to seize it. But he was met half way. The head of the serpent shot forward like a rapier, and reached his breast. The hawk felt that he was wounded; and uttering a wild scream, he flew suddenly away.
This doubter and his fellows had yet to learn that the flashing rapier in the hands of the swordsman makes a completer and far less messy job than the bludgeon; and that there is in politics room for the delicate art of jiu-jitsu.
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