single combat

How To Use single combat In A Sentence

• So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The elector, incensed at the unsoldierly destruction, challenged the mares-chal to a single combat. Sir Charles Grandison
• Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes. Celtic Mythology
• Whether offensive or defensive players are far stronger in single combat.
• Stripped to a pair of cotton trousers, with a dripping cutlass in one hand and a Colt's revolver in the other, an adventurer at the head of a bunch of dogs as desperate as himself fought his way across the reeking decks of a Chinese junk, to close in single combat with a gigantic one-eyed pirate who stood by the helm with a ring of dead men about him and a great two-handed sword upheaved .... The Cruise of the Jasper B.
• The challenge was to be single combat to the death, unless one of the contestants yielded. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
• But that made no difference - he knew he stood no chance against the oriental in single combat.
• I have every right to challenge you to single combat for dishonoring her.
• In all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat.
• As night fell, the battle developed into a series of hand-to-hand single combats.