The Romance of Duelling in All Times and Countries, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1868 |
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... replied the venerable Archbishop , " I know what I ought to do , but I do not know what I would do . " After all , however , perhaps the method of the Greenlanders in this matter would be the best to be adopted by all nations . They use ...
... replied the venerable Archbishop , " I know what I ought to do , but I do not know what I would do . " After all , however , perhaps the method of the Greenlanders in this matter would be the best to be adopted by all nations . They use ...
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... replied that all he could do for her sake was not to send for Bouteville at Brussels , but that he had better take care never to show himself in France . Meanwhile Beuvron returned to Paris , and sent chal- lenge after challenge to ...
... replied that all he could do for her sake was not to send for Bouteville at Brussels , but that he had better take care never to show himself in France . Meanwhile Beuvron returned to Paris , and sent chal- lenge after challenge to ...
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... replied , " By a sword wound . " The king immediately replied , " And does the man live ? " This pointed question sank deep into Sanquair's mind , and from that moment he formed the wretched resolution to rid himself of the obnoxious ...
... replied , " By a sword wound . " The king immediately replied , " And does the man live ? " This pointed question sank deep into Sanquair's mind , and from that moment he formed the wretched resolution to rid himself of the obnoxious ...
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... replied the prostrate Woodward . 6 Clubs were formed of desperadoes , who assumed the name of Bold Bucks , and Hell - fires , and their pro- fanity was too horible to be recorded in these pages ; suffice it to mention the peculiarity of ...
... replied the prostrate Woodward . 6 Clubs were formed of desperadoes , who assumed the name of Bold Bucks , and Hell - fires , and their pro- fanity was too horible to be recorded in these pages ; suffice it to mention the peculiarity of ...
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... , you must stand side- ways , " he replied , " Why , man , I am as thick one way as the other . " In such a case , of course , there is no help for it . CHAPTER V. THE CARTEL OR CHALLENGE . - SELECTION OF 92 THE ROMANCE OF DUELLING .
... , you must stand side- ways , " he replied , " Why , man , I am as thick one way as the other . " In such a case , of course , there is no help for it . CHAPTER V. THE CARTEL OR CHALLENGE . - SELECTION OF 92 THE ROMANCE OF DUELLING .
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Page 15 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother ; and slew him.
Page 84 - It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so...
Page 161 - I am slain!" seconding his speech with all the force he had to cast me. But being too weak, after I had defended his assault, I easily became master of him, laying him on his back ; when being upon him, I redemanded if he would request his life, but it seemed he prized it not at so dear a rate to be beholden for it ; bravely replying
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Page 270 - ... concerned. I came here at three this afternoon, and about five I was told that Lord Talbot and Colonel Berkeley were in the house. Lord Talbot had been here at one, and was gone again, leaving a message, however, that he would soon return. I had continued in the room where I was at my first coming, for fear of raising any suspicion.
Page 19 - Not Guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body ;" and thereupon taking off his glove, he threw it upon the floor of the court. The appellant did not choose to submit to this trial, and abandoned his proceedings.
Page 17 - When a gentleman challenged a villain, he was obliged to present himself on foot with buckler and baston; but if he came on horseback and armed like a gentleman, they took his horse and his arms from him, and stripping him to his shirt, they compelled him to fight in that condition with the villain> Before the combat the magistrates ordered three bans to be published.
Page 162 - Lord's surgeon, when nobody dreamt of it, came full at me with his lord's sword, and had not mine with my sword interposed himself, I had been slain by those base hands, although my Lord Bruce, weltering in his blood, and past all expectation of life, conformable to all his former carriage, which was undoubtedly noble, cried out,
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