Word: duel
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...desire certified copies of auditors' reports, I have them. You may peruse them and weep. Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...
...Royalist intrigue. With the expert, knowledge of character proper to so eminent a confidence-man, Burr turns the intrigue to his own use. He makes love to the only woman in the conspiracy (Jessie Royce Landis) and steals the fine clothes of the richest conspirator. He fights a duel with a young Yankee in which, reversing the role he played in his affair with Alexander Hamilton, he fires into the air. He postures elegantly, makes desperately winning speeches, executes paltry and artful stratagems, yet remains dull - a character falling halfway between life and fantasy. In spite and perhaps because...
...Continued tranquil, utterly unstirred by tidings that the Sixth Earl Winterton had just been slapped in the face in the House of Commons by crippled Laborite Charles James Simmons and later challenged to duel...
...provoked this enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Snowden by any allusion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'an insulting dog.' I cannot recollect ever using such a term in relation to a human.* It is quite true that I have since been challenged to a duel, but I decline to say by whom...
...Duel...