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Updated: June 9, 2025
If any one doubts that boxing and small-sword will do more to give elasticity and tone to the nervous system than lifting kegs of nails, then I will give him over to the heavy-lifters. Another point I take the liberty to urge. Without accuracy in the performance of the feats, the interest must be transient. This principle is strikingly exemplified in military training.
He could beat Bertrand or Alexander Dumas himself with the small-sword: he was the dragon that watched this pomme d'or, and very few persons were now inclined to face a champion si redoutable.
The chronicles of the small-sword and pistol are pregnant with horrid and absurd illustrations of certain great moral facts. Let them pass. A duel, we all know, spirit of 'Punch and Judy' a farce of murder. Sterne's gallant father expired, or near it, with the point of a small-sword sticking out two feet between his shoulders, all about a goose-pie. I often wondered what the precise quarrel was.
So that it comes to this: We seek the aid of the newest and most delicate weapon of attack and defence the small-sword to teach us how to properly make use of the most ancient and clumsy of all weapons the time-honoured quarter-staff! "But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born." Macbeth, Act V., Scene vii.
I felt that my small-sword alone could win me through. "All I ask is that, whatever I do or say, you'll stand by me," I finished. "Have you a plan?" he asked. "Part of a plan. Before I had a chance to finish either plan or sentence the enemy was upon us.
This was a French refugee-officer, who had been driven out of his native country at the time of the Protestant persecutions there, and who came to Cambridge, where he taught the science of the small-sword, and set up a saloon-of-arms. Though he declared himself a Protestant, 'twas said Mr.
Forgive me if I seem too inquisitive, but do you happen to know Captain Jeremiah Runacles?" "I know no reason, sir, against my answering. I know him well, and love him." "Ha? Where does he live?" "In Harwich." "He keeps hale?" "In excellent health for his age." "Could he still answer for himself with a small-sword? I mean not with a young adversary, but, say, with a man of my age?"
The room was lighted by one candle, burning smokily on the high mantelshelf; the other lay overturned and extinguished in the folds of a tablecloth which had been dragged to the floor. On a wooden chair beside the bare table sat Mr. Pomeroy, huddled chin to breast, his left hand pressed to his side, his right still resting on the hilt of his small-sword.
'Why, a mere tavern brawl, which your friend's skill and judgment prevented from becoming serious. I prythee take the rush-bottomed chair, and do you, Jack, order the wine. If our comrade hath spilled the last it is for us to furnish this, and the best the cellars contain. We have been having a hand at basset, which Mr. Saxon here playeth as skilfully as he wields the small-sword.
Here and there, however, some opulent tenant has modernized his rooms; but the structures, inside and out, remain for the most part not materially changed from the later Georgian era of their erection, a time when every gentleman sported a small-sword and ladies wore hoops and patches.
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