The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 121
direct course eitherfrom tierce to quarte, or quarte to tierce (high lines) ;septime to seconde, seconde to septime (low lines); or whenthe point is raised and lowered from the high to the low, orfrom the low to the high lines on the same side, e.g., fromquarte to septime, septime to quarte. Thus… … Fig the adversarys blade, until it meets it again in the line of thooriginal engagement, throwing off the attack in an opposite linefrom that in which it is directed. This circular movement—done by the action of the fingersmore than by that of the wrist—commences under the adversarysblade in the…
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