The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 121
bserved that all these parries whichhave been indicated and described are not of equal import-ance. Tierce, with its counter (or the outer circle), andquarte (with its counter (or the inner circle) should be princi-pally employed. (Figs. 1 and 2.) In parrying during the action of recovering from… … FENCING. 109 no means to be neglected by men engaged in any militarycapacity, who desire to know bow to make practical use of theswords they wear, seeing that thay are a defence against cutsas well as thrusts;and as due atten-tion to the posi-tion of the nailsin pronation orin supination canreadily…
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