We have seen here the miserable consequences that befall the conquered dueller. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
The dueller feller pays for all, and we're only waiting for my partner to roll in a keg of some of the slickest Yankee whiskey that was ever made in York. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia] Reference
You may also see the hope and support of many a flourishing family untimely cut off by the sword of a drunken dueller, in vindication of something that he miscalls his honour. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.] Reference
It was that quality of courage that struck every one who saw him; it was not only that he feared, it seemed, no one and nothing, but that he went a step further than that, spending his life in defying every one and everything, as a practised dueller might challenge every one he met in order to keep his play in practice. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
Her nephew seemed uneasy, and blamed her much; and I came back, but trembled as I stood; and he set me down, and said, taking my hand, I have been accused, my dear, as a dueller, and now as a profligate, in another sense; and there was a time I should not have received these imputations with so much concern as I now do, when I would wish, by degrees, by a conformity of my manners to your virtue, to shew every one the force your example has upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
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