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Updated: June 16, 2025
That I recalled, and how Breed had looked out at the sword-play through the cracks of the closed shutters, agonized between fear of ghosts within and the drama without. At the first faint light that came into our window I awakened Nick. "Listen," I said; "do you know a place called Clam Shell?" He turned over, but I punched him persistently until he sat up.
They fought on until each of them had seven great wounds, the least of which might have brought death to the mightiest giant of the world. But still the terrible sword-play continued, until their coats of mail were so hewn that they stood unarmed, and the blood poured piteously from their veins. At length the red knight withdrew a little and lay down. Then said Balin,
Both Lancelot and Gawaine were as yet not knighted, but together they tilted at each other in the lists beyond the walls, and spent their days in sword-play and all knightly exercises. Lancelot was the stronger and the better fighter; and though Gawaine never overcame him, yet did they twain love each other passing well.
His method involved simply a familiar offhand treatment of royalty, backed up by an excess of beauty, bravery, sword-play, costume, and irresponsible and impossible incident. "The only wonder is," he said, "that I shouldn't have taken up with this before. Anybody can do it; almost everybody else has done it."
"I am, dear sir, "Your obedient servant, "| EDWARD THOMAS, "Bishop of Limerick. "November 10, 1915." Had this been mere verbal sword-play, however, I should not quote it; it was more: it was the taking up of the challenge of cowardice.
"Well, the lads will keep an open course, and there will be some races and wrestling, and Sergeant Ripsy is going to show some encounters with the bayonet and a little sword-play." "Well, as you like. I can think of nothing else but getting the affair over and the people dismissed." "There, don't you be uneasy. There's a guard mounted to watch over our women folk, so come on."
By Jove, it was no stage combat or French duel. They went for each other as if they meant it. There was no stopping to take breath, nor drawing apart after a foiled attack. Each man tried to kill the other as speedily as possible. Three times they circled round in furious sword-play. Then the stranger got his point home.
"Most of them, my Lord, and drinking steadily the better to endure the dryness of the desert when we go eastward again." "Well, see to it that they do not drink so much as to interfere with clean sword-play against to-night's business."
Deringham knew a little about a good many things, including sword-play, and he realized as he watched the whirl and flash of blades, precision of effort, and exactitude of time, that this was an example of man's mastery over the trenchant steel. Presently the man with the saw rose and touched his shoulder. "I fancy we had better draw aside a little," he said.
Already, perhaps, they were on their way, and he husbanded his strength against their coming. He was proudly conscious of his own superior skill, for he had studied the art of fence in Italy its home during his earlier years, and there was no trick of sword-play with which he was not acquainted, no ruse of service in a rough-and-tumble in which he was unversed.
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