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    Use "duelling" in a sentence

    duelling example sentences

    duelling


    1. According to the traditions of duelling, Halfdan wore a helmet and body-armour; he had brought a spear, a shield and a sword


    2. (if one ignores duelling) psychopath


    3. before them, allowing them to pass through its midst to the mouth of the duelling chamber


    4. Once the duelling chamber doors had closed, Spartan turned his attention to the message which


    5. “Still in the duelling chamber, Sire


    6. the Grand Wizard, and since he had left him bound and gagged in the duelling chamber for the


    7. "I have always held duelling in extreme contempt," he said when at last he could speak, "but now I shall certainly fight


    8. They were duelling with wooden staffs, flying into each other with dizzying speed


    9. "Yes," answered Franz; "and it is to punish them that duelling is tolerated


    10. "Ah, duelling," cried the count; "a pleasant manner, upon my soul, of arriving at your end when that end is vengeance! A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from heaven that portion of happiness God his promised to every one of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart

    11. "Then you disapprove of duelling? You would not fight a duel?" asked Albert in his turn,


    12. During the meal, which was excellent, and admirably served, Franz looked repeatedly at Albert, in order to observe the impressions which he doubted not had been made on him by the words of their entertainer; but whether with his usual carelessness he had paid but little attention to him, whether the explanation of the Count of Monte Cristo with regard to duelling had satisfied him, or whether the events which Franz knew of had had their effect on him alone, he remarked that his companion did not pay the least regard to them, but on the contrary ate like a man who for the last four or five months had been condemned to partake of Italian cookery—that is, the worst in the world


    13. I remember’d that tho’ Duelling was i’faith illegal (tho’ the Legalities were seldom enforced), there were certain Rules which would not be countermanded


    14. I do not consider him more guilty than those who kill in war or in duelling, and are rewarded for their deeds


    15. "The effort to suppress duelling has often been made


    16. Against war and duelling the congresses of the two hemispheres vote in vain


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