Word: dueling
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...soldier. Fire and ice had altered the temper of his youth. Back again where riddles were playing, an elegant and austere figure, somewhat of a stranger to gaiety, he had fallen in love with Lavinia and she with him. The night before, he had challenged Gawin Todd to a duel for her hand; now he stood and watched her com ing down the stairs. He saw her silhouette above the banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud...
...Several Madrid journals published a statement that General Primo de Rivera was going to fight a duel with another General, a member of the Directorate. Observe, gentlemen, that both Generals are present at this luncheon and on best terms...
...duel to the death with swords ensued upon a nameless sward: Captain Fonseca was wounded...
...predictions run true, the game should resolve itself into a pitchers duel, as did the first contest, between two of the most formidable college twirlers of the East. Pond, twice conqueror of the University last year, will attempt to avenge the 1 to 0 defeat at the hands of Caldwell, the Tiger ace. Though defeated, Pond outpitched Caldwell in their first meeting and Eli adherents bank upon him heavily today...
...recent French Presidential election reminds one of Mark Twain's famous and often quoted French duel, in which the vanquished gentleman exclaimed with such exquisite pathos. "I die I die that France may live!" With a premonition of what was to befall. M. Painleve remarked on Thursday. "Personalities are nothing. It is the Republic alone that matters." One regrets that such beautiful unselfishness is not always displayed in domestic polities...