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Updated: May 16, 2025
Her outward appearance was that of child-like ultra- femininity, how was it then that he felt as if she were mentally fencing with him, and that her intellectual sword-play threatened to surpass his own? "Nothing," he repeated suavely, "has given the Holy Father greater satisfaction!
We still held to the pike, which troubled me much, both as an impediment to free sword-play and as depriving me of the use of my dagger. I suddenly fell back, trying to jerk it from his grasp; but his grip was too firm. He jerked the pike in turn, and I let go, thinking the unexpected release might cause him a fall.
"And, Dame," I cried, suddenly changing my meditations, "what an ideal fencing ground is this even turf!" "The swordsman's instinct," laughed Canaples. And with that our talk shifted to swords, swordsmen, and sword-play, until I suggested to Andrea that he should resume his practice, whereupon the Chevalier offered to set a room at our disposal.
"Downright hard hitting is not to be despised," the master said, "and in a battle it is the chief thing of all; yet science is not to be regarded as useless, since it not only makes sword-play a noble pastime, but in a single combat it enables one who is physically weak to hold his own against a far stronger antagonist." "That I feel greatly, maitre.
It was not merely under the excitement of the sword-play that this fortitude was shown; it was shown in the surgeon's room where an uninspiring quiet reigned, and where there was no audience. The doctor's manipulations brought out neither grimaces nor moans.
Peter for Thor, were it not, I say, that we now and then have a bout at sword-play together, my arm would be quite out of practice." "Cheer thee, old friend," said the knight, pityingly, "better times may come yet. Meanwhile, now to affairs. For all I hear strengthens all William has heard, that Harold the Earl is the first man in England. Is it not so?" "Truly, and without dispute."
It seems, then, to me, that single-stick is the most thoroughly practical form of sword-play for use in those "tight places" where men care nothing for rules, but only want to make the most out of that weapon which the chance of the moment has put into their hands.
There is Sholto MacKim, he is little older than I, and already he hath won the archery prize and the sword-play, and hath fought in a tourney and been knighted while I have done nothing except pull gowans with Maud Lindesay and play chuckie stones with Margaret there." And at that moment Sholto wished that this fate had been his, and the honours David's.
The tossing of abuse from realist to romanticist and back is but the sword-play of two one-eyed men with their blind side turned toward each other. Shall not each attempt be judged on its own merits?
The name clung to Cadoudal a name by which, five centuries earlier, the lords of Malestroit, Penhoel, Beaumanoir and Rochefort designated the great Constable, whose ransom was spun by the women of Brittany. "There's the Big Round Head," said they; "now we'll exchange some good sword-play with the English."
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