As a duellist at least she seemed worthy of his steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

‘Fitzgerald! — can it be Fitzgerald the duellist?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers] Reference

It was the salute of a courteous duellist to his adversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hippodrome] Reference

He was enthusiastic as a duellist as he was absorbed in art.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

The French ask for a duellist as the English ask for a sportsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

W---- of the navy was an inveterate duellist and an unerring shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

There stood the roué — the duellist — and, with all his faults, the hero too!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas] Reference

First of all, he is an experienced duellist, while I have never been on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

One of them, a certain Avdey Ivanovitch Lutchkov, staff captain, had a reputation as a duellist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jew and other stories] Reference

His reason for giving the name of his new refuge was an honourable one, and would appeal to a duellist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Bussy's exploits as a duellist and a gallant had impressed vividly the imagination of his contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

Florent Chapron prevented you from sleeping, that you are here with the classical wrist of a duellist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The films are based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the famous duellist and author of The Book of Five Rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A reverse survey meme sorta thing...] Reference

I was there to win my spurs as a man and a duellist, and to show to all the world that I had the courage of my race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

Moreover, the longer and the more steadily the duellist fixes his eye on his adversary, the less likely he is to miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

He was also younger brother of Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury, an inveterate duellist and the father of English Deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

As in the case of the others, he had no military training, though he was perhaps the most notorious duellist of his day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference

"They have chosen the duel a 'marche interrompue'," groaned the veteran duellist, whose knowledge of the ground did not deceive him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This the source of that remorse that settles in awful blackness, and that thunders damnation around the duellist in his dying hours!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

The plainly doomed duellist with the insensible Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

A dashing soldier, a quarrelsome duellist, a dull dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

By the way, you're a bit of a duellist yourself, Tregellis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Stone] Reference

Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"That Carlo Ammiani had slunk from a combat with your duellist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

French duellist who killed a man every morning before breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Sombre Rivals] Reference

Even now the sight of the man was distressing to an honourable duellist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

Fulkerson says the old man can manage the debtor, and Christine can look out for the duellist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference

Captain Cumnock was an impecunious fearless rascal, therefore a parasite and a bully duellist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

The Queen of Cyprus, they called her, in the last generation; she fights our great duellist handsomely. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

The man was a notorious spadassin, -- a duellist little less renowned for skill in all weapons than De Mauleon himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

It led me to perceive the difference of her published position in visiting a duellist lover instead of one assassinated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

As for Lupin, I read in the radiance of his glance the joy of the duellist who at length encounters the sword of his hated rival.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin] Reference

Still, like a duellist, who tries to regain all his strength after a sleepless night, Daniel was now fully prepared for the battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clique of Gold] Reference