How To Use Single combat In A Sentence
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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
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The elector, incensed at the unsoldierly destruction, challenged the mares-chal to a single combat.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes.
Celtic Mythology
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Whether offensive or defensive players are far stronger in single combat.
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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.
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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
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But that made no difference - he knew he stood no chance against the oriental in single combat.
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I have every right to challenge you to single combat for dishonoring her.
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In all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat.
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As night fell, the battle developed into a series of hand-to-hand single combats.
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Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes.
Celtic Mythology
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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
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But surely she owed her beloved that honour at least, the honour of single combat, which is a dragon's privilege.
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Urian Poisonblade, the Witch King's personal champion, called out a challenge to single combat.
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I have every right to challenge you to single combat for dishonoring her.
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Gunnar said, "Now all men here present be ear-witnesses, that I challenge thee Hrut to single combat, and we shall fight to-day on the holm, which is here in Oxwater.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
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They cut, foined, hewed, and thrust as if they had drawn their blades for the first time that day; and their inveteracy was mutual, for Torquil recognised the foul wizard who, as he supposed, had cast a spell over his child; and Henry saw before him the giant who, during the whole conflict, had interrupted the purpose for which alone he had joined the combatants — that of engaging in single combat with Hector.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Two of the enemy, mounted, appeared before them for single combat.
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Martial arts is a broad term that covers a variety of schools and forms whose unity derives only from their origins in the arts of war and single combat.
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Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes.
Celtic Mythology
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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
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I sallied forth to see the cause of the uproar, and found our host engaged in single combat with a drawn sword -- stick that sparkled blue and bright in the moonbeam, his antagonist being a strong porker that he had taken for a town guard, and had hemmed into a corner formed by the stair and the garden wall, which, on being pressed, made a dash between his spindleshanks, and fairly capsized him into my arms.
Tom Cringle's Log
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He was at war for a year with the Scotch clergy, on the question, whether slave-holders ought to be fellowshiped; and this gave him a reputation which was increased by a single combat
Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator.
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It was Melwas who suggested single combat.
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Finally Turnus and Aeneas meet in single combat.
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The judicial combat is introduced by a writer of the fourteenth century, in a scene where Pilate challenges Jesus Christ to _single combat_.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Obj. 3: Further, fighting with the fists, or "monomachy," i.e. single combat as it is called, and trial by fire and water, which are called
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat
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Whether offensive or defensive players are far stronger in single combat.
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Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes.
Celtic Mythology
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But surely she owed her beloved that honour at least, the honour of single combat, which is a dragon's privilege.
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El Cid upholds his honour and that of his King by defeating an enemy champion in single combat.
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We cannot, after all, believe that they come with any serious intention of doing us injury; it is but the insane desire of witnessing feats of battle and single combat, which is to them the breath of their nostrils, that can have impelled them to this partial countermarch.
Count Robert of Paris
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He had already defeated an enemy champion in single combat.
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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
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He had already defeated an enemy champion in single combat.
