Sentence example with the word 'duellist'

duellist

Definition n. a person who fights duels

Last update: July 26, 2015


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His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.   [Please select]

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A notorious duellist, he may have been busy with dramas of the past.   [Please select]

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I'll swear you had him shaking in his villain's shoes, duellist as he is.'   [Please select]

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Jack Oakhurst, gambler; Colonel Starbottle, duellist; Yuba Bill, stage-coach driver, were his contemporaries.   [Please select]

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Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher), Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).   [Please select]

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-- the bird is a desperate duellist, and will lunge his deadly blade into the jewelled breast of an enemy at the slightest provocation and quicker than thought.   [Please select]

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Andrew Jackson as a Duellist Comparatively speaking, the next great duel on my list attracted little more than local attention at the time.   [Please select]

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