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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 Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

Sorrow had quenched the fiery passions of impetuous youth, and religion’s holy precepts had taught Edmund Saville, that revenge was sinful, and that the divine command expressly said —” Thou shalt do no murder;” and in his reflective mind, the duellist was a murderer, let custom gloss the practice how it might.

Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

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 William "Papa" Meloney 2007

The films are based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the famous duellist and author of The Book of Five Rings.

A reverse survey meme sorta thing... William "Papa" Meloney 2007

To a general female heart a duel is the most dangerous of all assaults, and the most fascinating of all charms; and a duellist, though precisely what a woman most should dread, as most exposing her to public notice, is the person of all others she can, commonly, least resist.

Camilla 2008

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between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2008

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 2008

But somehow, I seem to have done just that for duellist.

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2008

The bridge seemed now broken down behind him, and the chance of coming off honourably without killing or being killed, (the hope of which issue has cheered the sinking heart of many a duellist,) seemed now altogether to be removed.

The Monastery 2008

He had been a duellist, the manners of the age authorized it — a libertine, the world excused it to his youth and condition — a bold and successful gambler, for that quality he was admired and envied; and a thousand other inaccuracies, to which these practices and habits lead, were easily slurred over in a man of quality, with fortune and spirit to support his rank.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008