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    duel


    duels


    1. Even if he didn't, no human could stand alone against an elf, for they bring to every duel eons of experience that simply could not be attained in a human lifetime


    2. S/Sgt Cocker had his rifle with him and kept a lookout for German patrols and snipers but a massive artillery duel that happened before we arrived yesterday must have cleared them out for the time being


    3. likelihood that his ship would not be able to resume her raiding activities, Alabama’s Captain Semmes challenged Kearsarge Captain John Winslow to a ship-to-ship duel


    4. If you spot one call down a couple of trench mortar rounds onto him don’t bother about having a duel with him do it my way and you might just survive


    5. „kitchen cabinet," explosive temper (As a young man he fought a duel with a man who had insulted his wife, and carried a bullet in his chest for the remainder of his days


    6. When the artillery duel had ceased, though there was no indication that the enemy's guns had been silenced, the regiments started to pour down the trail leading through the thickly wooded valley intervening between El Pozo and the enemy's position on San Juan


    7. The configuration of the ground seldom admits guns remaining far in rear of the advance, but there is no justifiable hope in advancing strong masses of troops against an entrenched position without preparatory artillery action, and no assault should be ordered until the artillery duel has silenced the enemy's guns and shaken the defending forces


    8. to end the unwanted duel between Crowley and the psychotic criminal


    9. He was locked in a duel with a very experienced (at fleecing customers that is) young lady in a strange game based on knocking nails into a block of wood


    10. Of course, no ensemble of mine is complete without the duel Desert Eagle Long Colts secured in my khakis’ waistline

    11. the most famous duel in America’s history


    12. I explained that I had a good memory for detail and just went over the duel in my mind until I saw what he had done


    13. Merilee frowned, "I know," she said, "in the old days, they’d just meet at sunrise and duel it out


    14. One hundred times the young captain had flown his 26-ton steed across Thailand and Laos into North Vietnam to duel dragons whose fiery breaths claimed at least one victim a day


    15. I told him to fight a duel against the man he owed the silver to, so he could cancel the debt with spear and sword, but he was too afraid


    16. Haki was a thick-armed and tall bully, who had once earned a living by travelling from town to town, challenging men to duels; these men could either pay Haki to cancel the duel, or fight -- in which case, Haki would kill them and become the legal owner of all the duel-loser's property


    17. The only difference being an outlaw meant to Haki was that he could no longer force other men to duel; as an outlaw, his challenges could be ignored without shame


    18. I am not sure that I could defeat him in a duel


    19. The duel was to be held the next afternoon, on a little island on a river that ran into Oslo-fjord


    20. In a Norse duel, one party strikes a blow at the other, who defends himself

    21. King Haakon looked troubled, but said nothing, allowing the duel to continue


    22. King Haakon announced that Halfdan had won the duel


    23. Another important theory would be considered as Duel Market theory which is in


    24. But unfortunately that duel sealed my fate within the order


    25. They were duel wielding with a Glock 17 in the other hand


    26. Lowgri dropped what was left of his sword and held his hands up, conceding the duel to Nem


    27. Bryony’s attention returned to the duel


    28. For a terrible moment Bryony thought the duel was over, but then the Captain removed his hand from his side


    29. “I have received a message from Elijah, your majesty, he challenged the priests of Melkart and Ashera to a duel on top of Mount Carmel,” the minister, Obadiah, announced


    30. Some of the Prophecies could have a duel meaning, what we apply to mean History, could actually be in the future

    31. The motion had a duel meaning; it was one of understanding but also one that outwardly affirmed her inner decision


    32. Men, women, and children streamed to the farm where the duel was about to take place


    33. ("Once upon a time in the West") In new productions based on special effects, the classical final duel was outdated and they tried to find and exploit ways in which to kill people


    34. Dual parenting and the duel of intimacy


    35. He had envisioned a desperate battle in space between the Veiled mother ship and himself – a duel between Titans


    36. I would not challenge him to a duel with small arms if I were you


    37. The power of his presence was such that from the first time he was seen in the church everybody took it for granted that a silent and tense duel had been estab-lished between him and Remedios the Beauty, a secret pact, an irrevocable challenge that would end not only in love but also in death


    38. ” The duel lasted until dawn on Tuesday


    39. with the Egyptian and a duel occurred with Moses being the victor


    40. to a duel, but Crocus managed to control his urge, and the

    41. The duel went on until both had emptied their magazines


    42. ’’ Answered Farah in a somber tone, still captivated by the duel in the sky


    43. ‘’I hope not as well: you would then most probably win that duel, knowing the way you shoot


    44. Apart from losing badly the gunnery duel, they lost a further four fighters and allowed us to speed past them and catch the bombers for a last strafing pass against their unprotected bellies


    45. He couldn’t describe to anyone how much he enjoyed the duel with Zeke


    46. That result had however come at the cost of young Mary Lou Neale, who lost her frontal duel against a ZERO ace, and of one more P-38N that had to crash-land on return due to battle damage


    47. As they prepared themselves for their sky duel, their sharp minds focussed on the prevailing conditions


    48. designed with the duel purpose of allowing advanced medical or


    49. Duel of the dual


    50. The sole pirate remaining intact on the pool deck, who was guarding the access to the inside of the ship, tried to point his submachine gun and shoot, but lost the duel, with Nancy shooting him in the face














































    1. “So I only learned these standard strikes and parries, and the basics of tactics, mostly as it applies to duels


    2. Ground fighting is fine when dealing with magically unskilled humans or when fighting silly duels, as you two have trained to do


    3. Haki was a thick-armed and tall bully, who had once earned a living by travelling from town to town, challenging men to duels; these men could either pay Haki to cancel the duel, or fight -- in which case, Haki would kill them and become the legal owner of all the duel-loser's property


    4. It was also necessary to fill the screenplays with corpses, creating a sort of limitation to the imagination of screenwriters: duels and ambushes are all alike after a while! Faces changed (not always), there were a few variations of bangs or sbonks, but things were more or less the same


    5. No longer restricted by her fears, she routinely bested him in their duels


    6. Your enemy expected you to have capital ships which it would battle in head-to-head duels


    7. many such duels that I engaged in during the course of my school


    8. They believed that the coming war would he fought in much the same manner as the last, where fleet battles would again consist of gunnery duels between lines of heavy ships


    9. There’ve been times past that people engaged in duels and open combat with less overtly


    10. In the many verbal duels which I had to fight, as a weary opponent, with people who passed for Christians, it moved me strangely to see them so far from perceiving that the effort to serve the love preached by Jesus may sweep a man into a new course of life

    11. and give you a nasty cold, but it’s not really the stuff that duels to the death are made of, is it?”


    12. He enjoyed duels


    13. I afraid there isn’t any past records of any duels that can be stranger than this!”


    14. for me, involved in duels just for me


    15. His own volition drove him to hazard duels and take on missions that would make


    16. guides and the spheres of infl uence, resulting in magic duels that usu-


    17. Heather had observed that while you are brilliant in regular duels, you have a


    18. Then began his travels, his duels, his caprices; then the insurrection in Greece broke out, and he had served in the Grecian ranks


    19. "I have already fought three duels with him," said the Englishman, "the first with the pistol,


    20. "And what was the result of those duels?"

    21. "You know my theory regarding duels; I told you my opinion on that subject, if you


    22. They exchange in amity the pass of knights of the red cross and fight duels with cavalry sabres: Wolfe Tone against Henry Grattan, Smith O'Brien against Daniel O'Connell, Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt, Justin M'Carthy against Parnell, Arthur Griffith against John Redmond, John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny, Lord Edward Fitzgerald against Lord Gerald Fitzedward, The O'Donoghue of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue


    23. "That is quite my opinion," said the gentleman; "nothing induces serious duels so much as


    24. "And I know he has fought two duels," said Morrel


    25. In the rows of dormitories are cadets who talk of alpine skiing, of duels, of jazz clubs and governesses and boar hunting; boys who employ curse words with virtuosic skill and boys who talk about cigarettes named for cinema stars; boys who speak of “telephoning the colonel” and boys who have baronesses for mothers


    26. The people of the Coast which she had left might pride themselves on taking people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy all their affairs, even their duels and their feuds, with a careless air but these north Georgia people had a streak of violence in them


    27. He received des Grassins, whom he did not recognize, with the impertinence of a young man of fashion conscious of having killed four men in as many duels in the Indies


    28. The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and, in spite of the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the principals nor their seconds suffered for it


    29. Another who wished to gain some advantage would attract the Emperor’s attention by loudly advocating the very thing the Emperor had hinted at the day before, and would dispute and shout at the council, beating his breast and challenging those who did not agree with him to duels, thereby proving that he was prepared to sacrifice himself for the common good


    30. Having forced the duels, it forced the victor out of France

    31. Queer African knives and French gun butts mingled for a moment in savage and bloody duels, but soon the natives fled into the jungle, leaving the Frenchmen to count their losses


    32. As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love


    33. In those days though duels were severely punished, yet dueling was a kind of fashion among the officers—so strong and deeply rooted will a brutal prejudice sometimes be


    34. I had procured it while still a boy, at that droll age when the stories of duels and highwaymen begin to delight one, and when one imagines oneself nobly standing fire at some future day, in a duel


    35. We are told, for instance, about the Decabrist L—n, that he was always seeking for danger, that he revelled in the sensation, and that it had become a craving of his nature; that in his youth he had rushed into duels for nothing; that in Siberia he used to go to kill bears with nothing but a knife; that in the Siberian forests he liked to meet with runaway convicts, who are, I may observe in passing, more formidable than bears


    36. So his conception of struggle was many-sided, and he did not prize stoicism and strength of character only in duels and bear-fights


    37. He had, moreover, in the past, fought two duels himself, and had even been degraded to the ranks and sent to the Caucasus on account of one of them


    38. " I hated the way in which he used to talk of his future conquests of women (he did not venture to begin his attack upon women until he had the epaulettes of an officer, and was looking forward to them with impatience), and boasted of the duels he would constantly be fighting


    39. All the most painful moments of my life,—the orgies and duels in which I took part as a student, the wars in which I have participated, the diseases that I have endured, and the abnormal and insupportable conditions under which I now live,—all these are only so much martyrdom exacted by fidelity to the doctrine of the world


    40. Still, some more reasonable laws and regulations, accepted by all, in these duels of the nations might considerably reduce the horrors of war

    41. No severities have eradicated duels and vendettas in some countries


    42. If men shall stop fighting duels and Circassians shall stop stealing, this will not be so because they are afraid of punishment (the fear of being punished only increases the charm of the daring), but because public opinion will be changed


    43. Still, the adoption of somewhat wiser rules and regulations in regard to these international duels would at least tend to limit their horrors


    44. When men no longer fight duels, and the Tcherkess cease to steal, it will not be from fear of punishment (the danger of capital punishment adds to the prestige of daring), but because public manners will have undergone a change


    45. The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the principals nor their seconds suffered for it


    46. Wiser rules and regulations imposed on these duels between nations might, however, at least limit its horrors


    47. No severities could put an end to duels and vendettas in certain districts


    48. If men cease to fight duels, and the Tcherkesses cease to be robbers, it will not be from fear of punishment (indeed, that invests the crime with additional charm for youth), but through a change in the moral standard of public opinion


    49. reports relative to challenges and duels, 191;


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    Synonyms for "duel"

    duel affaire d'honneur

    "duel" definitions

    a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor


    any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)


    fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman