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Definition of Duellists
1. duellist [n] - See also: duellist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duellists
Literary usage of Duellists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1824)
"JAMES R. Sir Francis Cottington to Lord Northampton on the punishment of duellists
in Spain. [MS. COTTON, inns c. iv. fol. 503. Orig. ..."
2. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan by Frederick Tupper, James Waddell Tupper (1914)
"... let poets ere allowed to write, Be searched, like duellists before they fight,
For wheel-broad hats, dull humor, all that chaff, Which makes you mourn, ..."
3. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1827)
"&c. at the Castle of Dublin—List of official and> judicial duellists in author's
time—Family weapons described—The Fire-eaters' Society—Their chiefs—Elegant ..."
4. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"In the same paper, two days after, there are letters by Mr. Izard and by the
duellists, which are not very amicable in their tone. In the same, of Jan. ..."
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