slogstaff

Updated: June 7, 2025

Well I remember in the Palatinate how I clove to the chine even such another the Baron von Slogstaff. He struck at me, look ye, so; but I, with buckler and blade, did, as one might say, deflect it; and then, countering in carte, I returned in tierce, and so St. Agnes save us! who comes here?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Captain of the Polestar