singlestick

1 A member of the Omaha Musketeer Fencing Club jumped in to practice singlestick fencing.

2 The sounds had apparently come from two boys mock sword fighting with wooden singlesticks.

3 "She can fence," said the little friar, "and draw the long bow, and play at singlestick and quarter-staff."

4 It was, to use the term of the old-fashioned singlestick players, “first blood,” and the sight thereof had a disastrous effect.

5 We have a President who so far forgets the traditions of his office as to beguile his spare moments by whacking the heads of his friends in a game of singlestick.

6 I thrust under Julian's singlestick; the sword hit the protective plate, but to my astonishment, the plate did not stop it.

7 We had constant sparring matches and some practice also with singlestick and foils; and Mr. Johnson would let me off sometimes of an afternoon to go a-fishing with the boy.

8 A bundle of singlesticks and a pair of foils stood in the corner near an open bookcase; a padded "chesterfield" and a few chairs completed the austere furnishing of the cabin.

9 They wanted him to go in for singlestick at the Young Men's Christian Association; but, of course, I couldnt allow that: he might have had his eye knocked out.

10 He held the singlestick at the height of his forehead.

11 There was a good deal of merriment to divert our attention, for there were clowns and merry-andrews passing along the highroad, with singlestick players, Punch and Judy shows, and other public amusers.

12 He was fairly expert with singlestick and rapier, and could play piquet and double-dummy bridge with more than average skill.

13 The play at singlestick at Salisbury races on Wednesday was very dull, there being no players of note to meet the Somersetshire men, who carried off the prize easily.

14 He won at the 1904 Games in singlestick — essentially fighting with canes.

15 At first we declined, and reminded him that he had punished us terribly with gloves and foils and singlestick, and that it would be even worse with knives-he would cut us in pieces!

16 Then, at college, he became illustrious among rowers and cricketers, renowned as a pistol shot, dreaded as a singlestick player.

17 Ha, Sergeant, an' my memory serves me right, we have had many a bout at singlestick.'

18 A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes.

19 I have acquired some facility in the use of that, having practised singlestick as an amusement at school.”

20 There, in my mind's eye, I see us as we practise archery and the use of the singlestick, both noble sports and much favoured by the early Britons.

1 剑术

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