On his upper body he wore a black, long sleeve, skintight shirt, and in his right hand he held a rapier. |
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In terms of state action, he says he wants the bludgeon to be replaced by the rapier. |
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Haul immediately disentangled his rapier from the person's sai with a twist of his hand, and continued their fight. |
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As Jane Austen tells it, it is a conflict of battleaxe versus rapier with the old battleaxe comprehensively vanquished. |
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Amelia ducked and rolled to the side to avoid being impaled by Breanne's rapier, the fight now a melee. |
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The immediate consequences to a duelist of wounds inflicted by thrusts or cuts from the rapier, dueling sabre or smallsword were unpredictable. |
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For 150 years the rapier had been the principal civilian sword in Europe and the Italians were undisputed masters of it. |
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Drake had his Katana, Judas his halberd, John a rapier and dagger, and Conrad wielded his two long swords expertly. |
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The pairing seemed to spark off each other, one a bludgeon and the other more of a rapier. |
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A bilbo is a finely tempered rapier design first made in Bilboa during the middle ages and the renaissance. |
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The steel beladah was much like a sabre, but with a guard for the knuckles, while the bilbo was bore a close resemblance to a rapier. |
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The hilt of the rapier was unadorned, wrapped with plain sharkskin, like so many weapons were that are from seaside towns. |
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In the process, the notorious Captain's rapier fell from his clutches to catch a safe fall. |
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For the first time I saw this man, whose words penetrated like a rapier thrust, in an entirely different light. |
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The Italians were the first scientists of rapier swordplay all through the 16th Century. |
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The real leader is the drummer who makes a super-duper testament to rock, full of passion and rapier wit. |
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It is as fundamental to rapier fencing as the lunge is to modern sport fencing. |
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The one that caught my attention was a woman wearing green and carrying a long, thin, lightweight sword, a rapier to be exact. |
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The first part of Palladini's work is devoted solely to the use of the single sword or rapier. |
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He also goes on to describe in many places in his book, the way in which a rapier was used in delivering multiple feints. |
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Webb's sharp script is laced with a rapier wit that is blacker than the Dark Ages. |
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Shrum, who emerged as a leading voice for Gore during a tour of talk shows after the August convention, is known for rapier instincts. |
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If by some chance you attract un-cool people, you manage to shake them off with your rapier wit. |
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Kenneth Scott, an emeritus professor of law at Stanford University, recalls Director as a man of gentleness but also a rapier intellect. |
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A fan of lively debate and intelligent conversation, his rapier wit is razor sharp, and is certainly on top form today. |
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The real leader is the drummer who makes a super testament to rock, full of passion and rapier wit. |
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Indeed Veeru's Napier thrust looked just the foil to Rahul's rapier thrust. |
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He also has a rapier wit and a refined taste for red wine and sweet revenge. |
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He changed from the cudgel to the rapier, and achieved a rare mastery at it. |
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As you can see, this is already shaping up to be a winner for subtlety and rapier wit. |
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But at least the liner notes are comprehensive, informative and packed with Fat Mike's rapier wit. |
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We secretly congratulate ourselves on our rapier wit and acid tongues as assorted revellers attempt to jump the queue. |
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I may have to move to the United States to battle these people with my rapier wit and rugged good looks. |
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He can go head to head and throw intellectual punches, or deliver rapier wit with ironic finesse. |
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The Government was wielding a rapier, not a cudgel, and wanted to concentrate on the clear and pressing dangers. |
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Anyway, I'll try again tonight to come up with some devastatingly clever pun that befits my rapier wit. |
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Both characters possess a rapier wit, and lash out with reckless abandon, and both films wisely recognize their cynicism as a defense mechanism. |
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He reaches over and picks up the slender rod he plans to use to simulate a rapier. |
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I don't know everything about Oscar Wilde but from what I remember his rapier wit was not much honed by a four-hour stopover in Kuala Lumpur. |
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Pulling the covers off revealed a no-nonsense rapier and a mid-length dirk. |
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They bring a youthful feistiness to the roles, but there isn't the bitterness or sophistication to make Shakespeare's rapier swift dialogue sting. |
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Michael had his scimitar, Monica her rapier, Eric a mace, and Erin a pick. |
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I could start carrying a cutlass or rapier around for good measure, and cultivate a fine waxed moustache and goatee while wearing a bandanna on my head. |
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She prefers to skewer her opponents on the end of a rapier wit, whether it's bolshie feminists, exploitive therapists, or madcap utopian dreamers. |
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He did ground his teachings in the use of the rapier and started his practicals with the learning of rapier and dagger which were still prevalently used in duels at the time. |
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Everyone I work with, who's had a rapier or smallsword fight, will have had a Canadian shuffle thrown in. |
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If you fancy a duel of words with a lippy French barman while he mixes you something long and cool, then this is the place to unsheathe your rapier wit. |
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Derek Flint satirizes and skewers mid '60s America with rapier precision. |
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It has been blessed with the honor of hosting my new web site and you, my loving fans, have been blessed with my rapier wit and timely sense of humor for at least a day. |
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With his rapier wit and penchant for one-liners, he also could've been a stand-up comedian, friends say. |
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In relation to positive rapier the investigation has revealed that the rate of switching is even lower. |
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For small weaving mills, therefore, switching from rapier machines to air-jet weaving machines is not an option. |
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Indeed, the west European market for rapier weaving machines is supplied exclusively by west European manufacturers. |
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The first DORNIER rapier weaving machines were introduced more than 20 years ago. |
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He sports a Vandyke beard and flashes a mischievous grin that gives him the look of a swashbuckler, though he's more adept with a torque wrench than a rapier. |
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A rapier and a dagger found on the Thames foreshore show us that swordfights routinely broke out on the streets of London. |
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God, my rapier wit will get me in trouble one of these days. |
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As well as the chance to try their hand at calligraphy, youngsters got up close to a variety of weapons such as a Celtic sword and 17th century rapier. |
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He was slim and strong, built like a rapier and just as fast. |
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Charm may have replaced the rapier assertiveness of the young composer, but his authority as one of the guiding lights of music in our time is as unquestionable as ever. |
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Swetnam was teaching fencing and general swordplay at a time when the rapier was making a distinct change from a cut and thrust weapon to that of a primarily thrusting weapon. |
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Defense when fighting with a rapier was effected by parrying with the left hand, which was protected by a gauntlet or cloak or equipped with a dagger. |
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By contrast with the significant trade flows within western Europe, there have been traditionally no imports of rapier weaving machines into this market from countries outside the area. |
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John is very quick on his feet during interviews by using his rapier responses. |
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He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length. |
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Furthermore, it is doubtful whether Chinese producers have the economic incentives to try to enter the European market for rapier weaving machines. |
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Salmond, in contrast, was famous for this rapier wit and putdowns. |
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The DORNIER rapier weaving machine, type PS, is therefore the ideal tool for the innovative weaver to follow new directions and pull ahead of the competition. |
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Tsudakoma is manufacturing a limited number of negative rapier looms exclusively for the Japanese market, where they are used to manufacture traditional Japanese textiles. |
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According to a European weaving machine producer, rapier machines manufactured in China are 20 to 25 years behind the European ones in technological terms. |
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Too often, the 12 has been used as a battering ram rather than a rapier. |
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Mr Zeman's rapier wit served him well in recent weeks during several head-to-head television encounters with the more deliberate Mr Schwarzenberg. Momentum clearly turned against Mr Schwarzenberg in the campaign's final days. |
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Air-jet looms are highly productive but less versatile than rapier looms. |
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On the basis of the foregoing, it must be concluded that rapier weaving machines form a separate product market from other types of non-shuttle weaving machines. |
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Last but not least, the use of short warp lengths in fancy denim entail, that the DORNIER rapier weaving machine is the ideal production means, because of its capability for fast style changes. |
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The DORNIER weaving system with its family of weaving machines consisting of rapier and air-jet machines is based on the same machine frame and utilizing the same basic electronics. |
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This means the overall energy consumption on a DORNIER air-jet weaving machine is, relative to the meters of fabric produced per hour, equal or less than that of a negative rapier weaving machine. |
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Nothing in the market investigation suggests that the Japanese weaving machine manufacturers intend to start or develop production of rapier weaving machines according to the standards of the west European textile industry. |
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As to the distinction between positive and negative rapier, for the purposes of this decision, the question whether or not they constitute separate product markets can be left open. |
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Accordingly, a weaver who produces small quantities of different patterns or fabrics would not find an air-jet machine a suitable alternative to a rapier. |
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Of the two main Japanese manufacturers, Toyota does not manufacture rapier machines at all, while Tsudakoma produces only a very small number of negative rapier machines. |
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