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Duel

noun

A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor. Synonym: affaire d'honneur.

Any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups).

verb

Fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman.

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... seem the same as gossip at home. It's more like Antonia's novels, condensed and told in the queerest English! It was some time before I could make out what he meant when he said two gentlemen had fought a duel because one of them had found the other nasconding in his garden-house. The one thus found obstinated himself, says Italo, to maintain that he had come to make a copy of the architectural design over the door. But as he didn't seem to have ...

— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall

... and the dust-fountains sprang up at the very heels of the troops. The cannon at the drift joined in the attack on the horsemen scattered over the slope, and the big guns at the waterworks continued to reply vigorously. The men in the spruit were watching the artillery duel intently as they sped up and down the bottom of the water-less stream, searching for points of vantage. A large number of them moved rapidly down the spruit towards its confluence with the Modder River in order to check the advance of the troops ...

— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas

... would sooner see Ferdinand dead than united to any one but myself, especially when I feel in my heart as much hatred for that other one as I have love for him. Such is my final word in our mortal duel. ...

— The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts • Honore De Balzac

... it, my friend: he killed that skunk in a duel and it's not the only one he has fought either. Old Hickory's got ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... O'Connell, whilst he was conducting a cause in the Irish Court of Common Pleas, observed, "Pardon me, my lord, I am afraid your lordship does not apprehend me;" the Chief Justice (alluding to a scandalous and false report that O'Connell had avoided a duel by surrendering himself to the police) retorted, "Pardon me also; no one is more easily apprehended than Mr. O'Connell"—(a pause—and then with emphatic slowness of utterance)—"whenever he wishes to be apprehended." It is ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

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