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When at last he had wasted in blasphemies what little breath his wild exertions had left him, I let him feel on his blade the twist that heralded my first riposte. He caught the thrust, and retreated a step, his blasphemous tongue silenced, and his livid face bathed in perspiration.
But the Marquis's morbid energy over-reached itself. Twice Syme, parrying, knocked his opponent's point far out of the fighting circle; and the third time his riposte was so rapid, that there was no doubt about the hit this time. Syme's sword actually bent under the weight of the Marquis's body, which it had pierced.
His riposte came quick upon my lunge; he had a very agile wrist; 'twas clear he had had much practice in a good school; and being determined not to do him a serious injury I put myself at some disadvantage and had much ado to avoid his point. He was beset by no such scruples, I could see, and would willingly have taken my life, which made my task all the harder.
A good swordsman too, that wealthy parvenu. It was interesting to watch his sword-play: very quiet at first, no feint or parry, scarcely a riposte, only en garde, always en garde very carefully, steadily, ready for his antagonist at every turn and in every circumstance. Gradually the circle round the combatants narrowed.
To one who fences or has used the broad sword a feeling for oppositional line should come as second nature. A long sweeping stroke must be parried or opposed frankly; the riposte must also be parried. A bout is a picturesque composition of two men and two minds in which unity of the whole and of the parts is preserved by the balance of opposed measures. The analogy is appropriate.
"No; I repeat to you, had you the best reasons to oppose to him, do not riposte, refuse the strife." The prior was silent; then he began again, quietly, "There are two ways of getting rid of a thing which troubles you to throw it far away, or let it fall.
It is that English sporting men are often deaf on one side, in consequence of the noise of the frequent discharge of their guns affecting the right ear. This is a very convenient infirmity for gentlemen who indulge in slightly aggressive remarks, but when they are hit back never seem to be conscious at all of the riposte, the return thrust of the fencer. Dr.
They happen through the changes and chances of life, and human whims and fads and the pure accident of heredity and descent. They are all on a lower level; they are all suspect, whereas the rights of labour are a part of humanity." But he followed her parry with a sharp riposte. "Remember what happened when somebody promised to marry me," he said.
He had meant to break it to her gently, but now he blurted it out. "They want me to go to Italy with Mother for two months." Fleur drooped her eyelids; turned a little pale, and bit her lips. "Oh!" she said. It was all, but it was much. That "Oh!" was like the quick drawback of the wrist in fencing ready for riposte. It came. "You must go!" "Go?" said Jon in a strangled voice. "Of course."
He well knew that a man must keep his feet. Woe to him who fell when it all was free! His own riposte was a snakelike glide close into his antagonist's arms, a swift thrust of his leg between the other's the grapevine, which sometimes served if done swiftly. It was done swiftly, but it did not serve.
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