Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 161
nd force7 146 boys owk book. in a straight thrust, carte over the arm, or in tierce, thenraise and bend your arm, forming the parade of prime, andquickly return a straight thrust in prime, before he recovers;or, if you have not opening sulTicient, disengage over hisarm, and deliver a thrust in… … When you engage your adversarys blade, act on the de-fensive for some time, in order to discover what feints orthrusts he prefers. Vary your parades as much as possible,so that he may not, in turn, ascertain your own favorites;for, if a good fencer be found to use one parade in preferenceto…
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