Duels Sentence Examples

On the Calcutta maidan, opposite Alipur Bridge, stood two trees under which duels were fought.

Before his last fatal encounter he was twice engaged in duels with editors of rival papers.

With them came land speculation, litigiousness, the development of mines and mining-camp law, and the passion of politics, of which duels were one feature of early days.

He was described as chasing the British squadron all round the lake, but his encounters did not go beyond artillery duels at long range, and he allowed his enemy to continue in existence long after he might have been destroyed.

For a long time he appears to have taken no part in public affairs, but rather to have indulged in the follies of court life and intrigue; for both in 1663 and 1664 he was engaged in duels, in the latter of which he was wounded.

It is customary to ascribe their successes to the power of the breech-loader, but there were actions in which it played no part, cavalry versus cavalry encounters, and isolated duels between batteries which gave the Prussian gunners a confidence they had not felt when first crossing the frontier.

Small sorties, partial attacks' and duels between the Japanese guns and the generally more powerful ordnance of the fortress continued.

The Christians under Count Amalric immediately intervened and the four expeditions which ensued in 1164, 1167, 1168 and 1169 were duels between Christians and Saracens.

During his later years he had been a cripple in consequence of a fall in the Chamber of Deputies, and he fought the last of his many duels sitting in a chair.

The chief incidents in that part of the poem - the panic rush to the ships, the duels of Paris and Menelaus, and of Hector and Ajax, the Aristeia of Diomede - stand in no relation to the mainspring of the poem, the promise made by Zeus to Thetis.

Among the Arabs the actions of magic and of spirits are regarded as at least as probable and common as duels and concealments of wills in European society.

Chalais was beheaded at Nantes in 1626 for having upheld Gaston of Orleans in his refusal to wed Mademoiselle de Montpensier, and Marshal dOrnano died at Vincennes for having given him bad advice in this matter; while the duelist de Boutteville was put to the torture for having braved the edict against duels.

The boy had a wild streak that overcame his sense of decorum too often and landed him in duels every other day.

Armies on both sides have fought artillery duels almost continuously which have often come to a war across the line of control.

So up into the harmless air Their bullets they did send; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end!

From 1803 to 1807 he was a member of the State House of Representatives, becoming during this period the leader of one of two personalpolitical factions in the state that long continued in bitter strife, occasioning his fighting two duels, in one of which he killed his antagonist, and in the other was wounded in his wrist.

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.

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.

So up into the harmless air Their bullets they did send; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end !

Pretty much, you'll plod along engaging in lightsaber battles and duels, shooting turrets and blasters while trying to get to the end of the game.

It fully takes advantage of the cutting edge technology found in the PS3.The gameplay is utterly realistic with lifelike pitcher-batter duels and a very addictive Road to the Show game mode.