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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;
