The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 212
ing your arm sa yourpoint descends again, and longing when it is extended; thesemotions, of course, being simultaneous, when you have learnedto perform them with accuracy. The action may be exemplified by taking a cricket stump andfixing it in the ground by a downward throw. The action isthat of… … and shoulders, instead of striking your point upon his breast-and a cut from a foil is no joke, even through sleeves of stoutleather. You would naturally imagine that the most dangerous momentfor a fencer must be that following an unsuccessful attack, andthis is indeed the case. The return thrust…
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