How To Use Duel In A Sentence
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This naturally resulted in a magical duel, which Crowley eventually won.
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Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel.
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The spot kick was a duel between the two best players on the pitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
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Men also met there to fight duels.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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He is imprisoned for a year for having acted as Castlewood's second in the duel, for which Lady Castlewood bitterly reproaches him, and on his release joins the army and fights in the war of the Spanish Succession.
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An outcry has been raised against the duello, when the fact is that the duello is simply the unit of war.
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The binomial designates a duel made up of two individuated forces which intersect.
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Twenty bidders dueled for that 8-foot-long scene, and a private American buyer won it.
The Art Market Snaps Back
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At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis.
Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?
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You may see, if you like; but you take aim, Lord Lilburne; that would be of no use in English duelling.
Night and Morning, Volume 5
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Therefore the argument which had sprung up between them during dinner had ended by being not so much a duel as a brawl: and while duels with food are both entertaining and eupeptic, brawls are neither.
Mrs. Miniver
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When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp.
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Strident, assertive saddlebacks begin argumentative vocal duels, their staccato ‘Yak-yak - yak-yak’ in ever longer and louder volleys.
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Many thousands felt let down by their aborted duel at York last month.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the greatest of today is the great hue and cry against the Duello.
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The Liverpool tall guy was often penalised in his duels with his markers.
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Indeed the idea of a great public duel between the two men dissolves on closer examination; in fact, they had little direct contact.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both gifted swordsmen, and both left-handed, uncle and nephew were putting on a skilled display-a show made more impressive by the fact that they were fighting in accordance with the most exacting rules of French dueling, but using neither the rapier-like smallsword that formed part of a gentleman's costume, nor the saber of a soldier.
Dragonfly in Amber
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--- but I humbled myself, and apologised to Redcowl; for, even in my younger days, I was no friend to the monomachia, or duel, and would rather walk with Sir Priest than with Sir Knight --- I care not who knows so much of my valour.
The Antiquary
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Évariste Galois, the mathematician died in a duel at the age of 20.
Everybody Beats Mozart (Except Those who Don't)
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One had a cut above his cheekbone like an old duelling scar.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced siskin (Carduelis yarrellii).
Pernambuco interior forests
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He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
Waverley
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At the time of going to Press last night, the two combatants were duelling in a tie breaker to decide who advances to the quarter-finals.
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So when you see a great duel between great champions, you should be able to see who has got it and who has not.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, temperamentally, he was a street fighter, not an intellectual duellist.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a relic of the days when you might have to roll them back to fight a duel.
Times, Sunday Times
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He turns cricket into a personal duel, sometimes too much so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Men also met there to fight duels.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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(Alatriste - Duelo en el Corral de Comedias) tags: manflesh, swordplay is foreplay mood: fangirl squee
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The Sanctuary's dueling grounds was found at the end of the north wing of the main chamber.
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Who would win the lightsaber duel anakin skywalker or starkiller from starwars the force unleashed?
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1127
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But it so chanced, that Bello's crafts, one by one meeting the foe, in most cases found the canoes of Vivenza much larger than their own; and manned by more men, with hearts bold as theirs; whence, in the ship - duels that ensued, they were worsted; and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
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I believe there is nothing more to be said or done to-night, "responded the duke, in a desponding tone -- for it _cannot_ be an exhilarating anticipation to have to get up in the morning and stand up to murder, or be murdered, even where the duellist is the bravest of men, backed by the serenest of seconds.
The Lost Lady of Lone
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Feeling were so intense that they fought a duel.
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For many of these young MPs the canteen is proving a refuge from the long-drawn speeches and verbal duels in the House.
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Katrina had grabbed her gun holster and strapped it around her hips, slinging her duel pistols into the holster.
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To lose by so tiny a margin after an epic duel lasting almost two hours was cruel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within a month after his letting out of prison he was killed in a duello with the husband of a lady he had took by force in the highway.
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With their duelling guitars and superb craftsmanship, they can always be relied--'
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Archon Beed Thane of Vergill was particularly opposed, and theatrically insulted Leia Organa Solo in order to provoke an honor duel from Isolder.
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The only way wherein authorial (privileged) intent can be kept is if the author is also the illustrator or artist, otherwise, there will always be a duel of visions.
Archive 2004-12-01
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I had read about this kind of sword before - a Rapier - a dueling foil - a child's toy.
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A sampling -- including my most favorite, on that "duelist" religion founded by (ironically enough!)
Archive 2007-06-01
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Sure, on The X Factor the judges are in competition with one another, but unless Simon starts hiring hit men to take out LA's acts, let's not overblow the dueling critiques.
Why The X Factor Bloodbath Is Good News — And Hopefully Just a Starting Point
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The image of battle as a formally arranged duel is an extreme idealization.
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As in a real duel, if both fencers hit at the same time, both hits are counted.
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I also second the suggestion of Duel To The Death, which has great sword work.
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How bitter it was that the most guilty party, Calvin, was untouchable by shame, and therefore could not have his adultery used against him, unless Lord Ashworth was a champion dueler (and even then, Margaret suspected that in a duel with Calvin, Lord Ashworth would find that his pistol would not fire and his sword would break right off).
Heartfire
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Not to mention our own epic duel on the game, which remains ongoing.
The Sun
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With the home run king watching and cheering from a front-row seat, Ross delivered again, Matt Cain outdueled Cole Hamels and the San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in the NL championship series.
Giants Win Game 3, Take 2-1 NLCS Lead
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Waugh has duelled with Smith since their under-21 days and knows only too well that he held the upper hand for just two Tests in 2001 when he was last preferred.
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The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.
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The two yachts are locked in a duel for the championship title.
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To take the gold, Carter engaged in a head-to-head duel with his countryman, world champion Bevan Docherty.
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Jack duelled his opponent for hours.
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Giving such a dueling policy speech was something of a first for a just-stepped-down vice president, a role that is generally supposed to entail a comfortably obscure retirement spent fly-fishing and attending rubber-chicken fund-raisers.
The Longest War
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In retrospect, he joins the long list of those who verbally dueled with George and came out worsted.
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The law says, the killing a man in a duel is murder, and I am bound to tell you it is murder; therefore, in the discharge of my duty, I tell you so; but I tell you at the same time, a _fairer duel_ than this I never heard of in the whole _coorse_ of my life. '
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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N'importe quel représentant du peuple, individuellement, à quelque parti politique qu'il appartienne, s'il veut véritablement la promotion du bien commun, ne devrait pas hésiter à réclamer une répartition adéquate de la richesse, respectant la liberté personnelle, la propriété et l'entreprise privées.
Qu'est-ce que le vrai Crédit Social? Au-dessus des partis politiques
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The films are based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the famous duellist and author of The Book of Five Rings.
Archive 2007-04-22
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We doubt whether the most limited gynocracy would tolerate the use of tobacco as an article of daily diet, or permit ferocious murders to go unwhipped of justice under the name of duels.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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Wasdin dueled Reynoso to a scoreless tie through six innings, but walked Greg Colbrunn to start a five-run seventh.
National League Baseball - Diamondbacks vs. Rockies
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Some versions even have Popper and Wittgenstein duelling with a pair of pokers.
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Falvelon's victory in the Sprint came after a testing duel in the final furlong with American challenger Morluc.
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In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters
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The awful prospect for purists is that Olympic year may become a pantomime duel between the two.
Times, Sunday Times
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While upper-class dueling had become rare by the 1840s, highly ritualized forms of working-class fighting continued throughout the century.
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In the film, the story's narrated through flashbacks, motivated by Stefan's reading the letter before the duel.
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Hobson, fed up with Swaby's taunts since their tasty duel two years ago, jumped round the ring in joy.
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She could never afterward recall how long the duel lasted.
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Fencing was founded in the 1800s based on the three types of sword dueling.
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They duelled and Cadwallader shot Conway in the mouth.
American Connections
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Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government.
Waverley
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Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Greeks and Romans? were these cowards? and yet, did you ever hear of this butchery, which we call duelling, among them?
Amelia — Volume 3
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With respect to fauna, the most notable avian endemisms are those relating to the red siskin (Carduelis cucullata), a small bird with bright red and black plumage that is considered one of the most threatened species in Venezuela.
Paraguana xeric scrub
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Men of different heights duelled with wooden sticks but one of the subjects deliberately provoked the other by rapping them across the knuckles.
Study: Short Men are ‘Not More Aggressive’ | Impact Lab
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The band's dueling guitars harken back to the arty axe work of the quintessential NYC act Television.
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A proprement parler, la philosophie théologique, même dans notre première enfance, individuelle ou sociale, n'a jamais pu être rigoureusement universelle, c'est-à-dire que, pour les ordres quelconques de phénomènes, _les faits les plus simples et les plus communs ont toujours été regardés comme essentiellement assujettis
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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As the two bay mares dueled in the lane, Finery angled to the outside following a ground-saving trip midpack and kicked home in the final strides to edge Madeira Mist.
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He dreamt that he was a brave and noble swashbuckler, swinging from chandelier to chandelier as he dueled with his foes.
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It is not without reason that the formal rules of boxing, judo, fencing and even dueling require that the combatants salute each other before the engagement.
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This campaign will witness a stark battle of dueling strategic viewpoints.
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He was kissing her bottom lip and suddenly his tongue was slowly touching hers, daring her, challenging her to duel with him.
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Division two saw the usual suspects duelling it out with the addition of some new faces.
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You may also see the hope and support of many a flourishing family untimely cut off by the sword of a drunken dueller, in vindication of something that he miscalls his honour.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Any of those "rascalities" would constitute enough reason for the aggrieved party to challenge the perpetrator of the injustice to a duel, OK Coral style, after school.
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It was hardly the first time she has duelled with journalists.
Serena Williams seeks serenity but is not afraid to face her foes
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As the band lets the dueling guitars heat up, Johnson barks like a flea market pitchman, bargaining with wary shoppers for humanism and attention.
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Pro dancers Mark Ballas and Val Chemerkovskiy (brother to the show's Maksim) performed a bizarre duel: Ballas played guitar, Chemerkovskiy played violin, then they each tried to outdance each other.
Margaret Cho Cries As She's Cut From 'Dancing'
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Audi Beats Peugeot At Paul Ricard -- The duel of the diesels is the motor racing equivalent of Ali vs. Frazier.
Motorsport.com: news
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The facility will also offer artwork and repro capability with duel process expertise designed to accelerate the transfer time between processes.
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audiobooks on holdem ecology belts.megabaud dueling
The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-American speech:
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An Aprista-sympathizing faculty member of the University Council challenged the Rector to a duel after allegedly suffering a personal affront.
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Phil, for waht it's worth, perhaps you’re able to accept that the word Kaffir (its plural is Kuffar) has a duel meaning.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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In addition to the fine furniture, pictures, silver and glass that one might expect, there are also fans, duelling pistols and blunderbusses, a tiger skin rug, a butcher's block, a spinning wheel, a Dun Emer carpet and sporting equipment.
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I had never been to the tiny park that memorializes the duel, since it has no historical interest.
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In duels with the sword, the seconds mark the standing spot of each combatant, leaving a distance of two feet between the points of their weapons.
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Before he left, he earned a footnote in history by fighting the last formal duel on Austrian soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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From these, in a narrow and a dirty street devoted to such callings, Mr Wegg selects one dark shop-window with a tallow candle dimly burning in it, surrounded by a muddle of objects vaguely resembling pieces of leather and dry stick, but among which nothing is resolvable into anything distinct, save the candle itself in its old tin candlestick, and two preserved frogs fighting a smallsword duel.
Our Mutual Friend
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The young soldier's competitor was a big burly man with beefy arms and legs the size of tree trunks, while the young duelist was small and scrawny - barely half the big man's size.
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At the same time , early Writ of right allow the unpredictability of the lack of a more rational decision to make duel , plaintiff being at more disadvantage.
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Remember that this was a period of time when any remark that might be deemed slighting or offensive could lead to a duel.
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Two knights have at each other in what seems almost to be a personal duel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Squealing keyboard lines duel with harsh sax solos, but it's the drumming that ultimately comes up victorious.
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They playfully rode piggyback on their team-mates' shoulders, duelling each other with loaded bottles of champagne.
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He entered into a verbal duel with his officer and later opened indiscriminate fire at him.
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Many thousands felt let down by their aborted duel at York last month.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before he left, he earned a footnote in history by fighting the last formal duel on Austrian soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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At 11-9 up, Richardson missed a great chance and Clarke won a colours duel to cut the gap to 11-10.
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All the pre-match hype was about the duel of the two superstars.
The Sun
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Dueling continued for three hours and freedom fighters were returned unharmed.
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I allow neither perduellion nor lese-majesty against my sovereign authority. ''
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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We have seen here the miserable consequences that befall the conquered dueller.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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The next day, Sean was challenged to a duel.
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The officer challenged him to a duel .
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Boomtown Houston of the past was infamous for brawling and duelling.
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The dueling Bush and Gore plans, which add a new drug benefit for seniors, are sprinkled with vote-catching details.
What Medicare Really Needs
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Each table is separated from its neighbour by a partition, creating four small, brightly-lit theatres in the larger gloom, theatres in which players duel to the death across the green baize.
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Actually, these head-to-head duels play out on a computer screen, superimposed in digital video overlay.
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This is the strange story of what happened before, during and after the last duel fought in Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times
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I liked it better than the first one, if only because I thought the world of Hellboy was a lot better realized here (despite the finale, the duel on clockworks, which is a direct lift from Miyazaki -- so was the Forest God sequence, come to think of it) and the special effects were employed with more wit.
Electronic Cerebrectomy
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It was that quality of courage that struck every one who saw him; it was not only that he feared, it seemed, no one and nothing, but that he went a step further than that, spending his life in defying every one and everything, as a practised dueller might challenge every one he met in order to keep his play in practice.
The Cathedral
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At 26 she is a far more rounded individual than those she is duelling against on court.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was an exquisitely talented painter and sculptor who worked for popes and kings, a contemporary and acquaintance of Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci; an incorrigibly opinionated boaster, duelist and brawler, an occasional jailbreaker (for that fast mouth of his got him in trouble more than once), and an indefatigable self-promoter and traveling PR show, with an ego the size of the planet.
OMG, how did I miss this?! | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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The only lag in energy - and thus my only very minor criticism - was a brief sag just before the duel scene, which was itself a tad rushed.
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He turns aggressive and a verbal duel follows, shattering any semblance of peace that remains.
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After the requisite number of shipwrecks and duels in suitably exotic locations, he duly wins her.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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It is still customary in Arabia during the furious tribal fights, the duello on a magnificent scale which often ends in half the combatants on either side being placed hors-de-combat.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And then he is challenged to a duel by the local thug.
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Feeling were so intense that they fought a duel.
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Cyrano was a swashbuckling swordsman from the Gascon area of France (similar to the character D’Artagnan by Dumas) and he fought many duels.
Five People Born on March 6 | myFiveBest
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After the requisite number of shipwrecks and duels in suitably exotic locations, he duly wins her.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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He took plenty of hard knocks and got up to give plenty of hard knocks, took a good pack mark, buffeted Richardson out of position in marking duels, punched the ball clear and is a stylish left foot kick.
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Mazarin's numerous nieces, and the opera, that new importation from Italy, which the Cardinal was bringing into fashion; while in the remote past of half a dozen years back the Fronde was the only interesting subject, and even that was worn threadbare; the adventures of the Duchess, the conduct of the Prince in prison, the intrigues of Cardinal and Queen, Mademoiselle, yellow-haired Beaufort, duels of five against five -- all -- all these were ancient history as compared with young Louis and his passion for Marie de
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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It was reported this week that the two veteran duelling divas are still at it.
The Sun
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This is the strange story of what happened before, during and after the last duel fought in Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Mickelson, the next decade will bring a lot more excitement, majors and, we hope, head-to-head duels with Woods.
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Everyone was excited and happy because there hadn't been a drama like this at La Scala since 1950 when Maria Callas went on for Renata Tebaldi in Aida, initiating, as Corriere della Sera wrote, their duello.
Erica Jong: Aida and Iraq
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With the single exception of Ferdinand Lassalle, there was no revolutionary leader who was not an obvious impossibilist in practical politics; and Lassalle got himself killed in a romantic and quite indefensible duel after wrecking his health in a titanic oratorical campaign which convinced him that the great majority of the working classes were not ready to join him, and that the minority who were ready did not understand him.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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These stylized balletic duels are lovely to look at, but, let's face it - enough is enough already.
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He was notorious for his hot temper and instant readiness to fight a duel with anyone who crossed him.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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All the pre-match hype was about the duel of the two superstars.
The Sun
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The ruling is incapable of ending the duel between the opposition and the ruling party.
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Tiofe therefore that have obftrv'd the com - mon occafions of Duels, have not unfitly di - vided them between * Wine and Women j it being hard to fay which is the moft intoxi - cating and befotting.
The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts
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Two terribly eager young men were dueling with megaphones, exchanging jocular insults across the concourse.
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The great "artillery duel," as American writers are so fond of calling what used to be termed a cannonade, seems to have astounded the Federal organs into something like frankness and veracity.
London; Saturday, May 2, 1863
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed the idea of a great public duel between the two men dissolves on closer examination; in fact, they had little direct contact.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would you say that sabre duelling is a good father/son sport?
Collect Call From Coruscant
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The knights are placed inside an arena to duel against each other until only one of them is left standing.
Christianity Today
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Artists have duelled critics in the past (literally duelled, pistols at dawn and all), have probably always railed against unimpressed audiences, and so on before.
Pretentiousness
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Although during his reign only about thirty officers died from duelling, a larger number were discharged from the army by their regiments when they refused to duel, or staged a sham duel, after some alleged insult.
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What our dueling doofuses don't realize is that this is all a set-up.
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So if you don't buy a filter for every phone on the line, your calls will sound like an angry duel between a fax machine and a modem.
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Aftre that, is the kyngdom of George, that begynnethe toward the est; to the gret mountayne, that is clept Abzor; where that duellen many dyverse folk of dyverse naciouns.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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St Jovite was in a winning position on the final bend, but the race soon developed into its final desperate duel.
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[*] To a duel, usually fought, in mail or without it, on an island -- "holm" -- within a circle of hazel-twigs.
Eric Brighteyes
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The announcement this week that Owen Wilson is about to become a first-time dad by girlfriend Jade Duell -- a name heretofore unknown to the celebrity-media industrial complex -- set off a flurry of fruitless Googling across the country.
Owen Wilson's babymama Jade Duell is a Beltway girl with an intriguing federal government past
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This brought on the famous "leadless duel", and paved the way for the lifelong friendship between the poet and the critic.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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They made a ring, "moseyed" into it, and no cool man -- one who had the least sympathy for his tabernacle -- would have taken the knocks, kicks, bites, gougings, battings, etc., that were given and received by those two duelists for a trifle.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Columbia, in which Washington is built, have all passed severe laws against the practice of duelling, which is universal; but they are no more than dead letters.
Diary in America, Series One
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Before he left, he earned a footnote in history by fighting the last formal duel on Austrian soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was reported this week that the two veteran duelling divas are still at it.
The Sun
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Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; ` ` there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose --- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I'ma smack u in the head and make u into a dueler. with my sig-sauer I'll make u look like Dennis Meuller.
To Shoot, Perchance to Dream
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Only because Luke had not even heard the word "delope" until after the duel.
Heartless
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Public awareness of the great Gold Cup duel is hugely increased.
Times, Sunday Times
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Snowdon residents have been duelling it out by petition concerning Addington House, a drug rehab centre recently transplanted from NDG to a semi-detached duplex at Earnscliffe and Dupuis.
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If you fancy a duel of words with a lippy French barman while he mixes you something long and cool, then this is the place to unsheathe your rapier wit.
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French Socialists were struggling to save their party from destruction yesterday after an inconclusive leadership contest sparked a duel to the death between the two contenders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drunk or sober, I've seen more than one situation spiral out of control for no good reason - other than ego, pride and more than a little dueling machismo from both sides.
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To lose by so tiny a margin after an epic duel lasting almost two hours was cruel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Powers and the chaotic brute ones, after long contest and partial victory by the former, meet at last in universal world-embracing wrestle and duel; World-serpent against Thor, strength against strength; mutually extinctive; and ruin, 'twilight' sinking into darkness, swallows the created Universe.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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At 24 frames, blurriness was very evident when the camera panned or dollied along the dinner table and when two knights dueled with swords.
The Seattle Times
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I don't know if BHO has enough momentum to outduel HRC ......
What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters
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The duelling second lieutenants were both said to be in their 20s.
Times, Sunday Times
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We also live on the fourth floor of a block of flats overlooking Mile End Road, a duel carriageway.
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Men also met there to fight duels.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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The second duelist, although less seriously wounded, was bleeding from a gash to his thigh.
Excerpt: Wedlock by Wendy Moore
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All the pre-match hype was about the duel of the two superstars.
The Sun
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What was it?" gasped Dorothy, who had stood throughout the duel like one planet-struck; "what was it you did?
The President A novel
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Here the knight made a gesture of impatience. — “Nay, fair son, hear me but one moment — the grave is closed and covered by the sod — what can we believe, but that it conceals the bloody corpse of the fallen duellist?”
The Monastery
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The kite-strings were coated with ground glass, and people duelled with them, trying to cut other people's kite strings with their own.
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His analysis of bluffing as a poker strategy, as well as his research on dueling -- using statistics to determine the most opportune moment for a dueler to shoot -- helped establish him as an expert in game theory.
David H. Blackwell dies at 91; pioneering statistician at Howard and Berkeley
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'n plek waar ons mt al ons verskeidenheid van ras en etniese afkoms, taak en kultuur, geloof en opvattings, en van indiwiduele voorkeure en orientasies, tuis kan voel; en waarin elke persoon' n versekerde gevoel van behuisdheid sal he, seker in die wete dat hy of sy veilig is, dat daar werksgeleenthede bestgaan, dat in basiese lewensbehoeftes voorsien word, dat daar gelykheid van voorregte en geleenthede bestaan.
MANDELA TOESPRAAK IN DIE POTCHEFSTROOM UNIVERSITEIT
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The duel began with a sudden lunge on his part; the shallow thrust was parried decisively to the right with a thin screech of metal against metal.
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Cold Stone Creamery chain is now offering a new "dripless" ice cream, according to Dueling Nostrils: Will It Be the Scent of a Rose or a Marker Pen?
Scientific American
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We proposed to make it a Midshipman Easy duel, a three-cornered fight -- Brothers Homan and Benson vs. the "Apostle," but they wiggled in and they wiggled out, they temporized and tergiversated until we saw there wasn't an ounce of fight in the whole Prohibition crew -- that, after their flamboyant defi, we couldn't pull 'em into a joint debate with a span of mules and a log-cabin.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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y más me duele el no osar deciros que he llegado por vos a tal estado; que viéndome do estoy y en lo que he andado por el camino estrecho de seguiros, si me quiero tornar para hüiros, desmayo, viendo atrás lo que he dejado;
Veruscio Diary Entry
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If I could press a stethoscope to your head and listen to your brainwaves, I imagine they'd sound like a pair of dueling banjoes.
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In 1972 the two had fought out an epic duel for the Open championship at Muirfield.
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Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The second duelist, although less seriously wounded, was bleeding from a gash to his thigh.
Excerpt: Wedlock by Wendy Moore
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The two have duelled for domination in central Europe, seeking to capitalise on strong growth prospects and European Union entry from next year.
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“Why, listen, then,” said the officer as they proceeded on their walk, “listen to the reason of the thing, and consider whether such a custom can obtain, as that which they term the duello, in any country of civilization and common sense, to say nothing of one which is blessed with the domination of the most rare Alexius Comnenus.
Count Robert of Paris
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The outcome of that duel may well settle the series, and on current evidence there is only one winner.