1 A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON 2 He reflected that this coalition of four young, brave, enterprising, and active men ought to have some other object than swaggering walks, fencing lessons, and practical jokes, more or less witty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 3 All three remounted their horses, and set out at a good pace, while Porthos was promising his adversary to perforate him with all the thrusts known in the fencing schools.
4 I sought out the best fencing master in Paris, I made an agreement with him to take a lesson every day, and every day for a year I took that lesson.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 5 Athos fenced with as much calmness and method as if he had been practicing in a fencing school.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH 6 A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block.
7 She remembered visions of herself as a smart married woman in a drawing-room, fencing with clever men.
8 Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. 9 Patch was superimposed upon patch, and, in place of a roof, one hut had a piece of wooden fencing, while its crumbling window-frames were stayed with sticks purloined from the barin's barn.
10 On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, and fencing from the village.
11 Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
12 , fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cook, and Charles Leboucher.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 39. The Guests. 13 Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 14 He is smooth-faced and brown, and is fencing up his pigs.
15 They turned in at the gate and passed under the shaded knoll where, enclosed in a low fence, the Frome grave-stones slanted at crazy angles through the snow.