item: #1 of 3
          id: 12135
      author: Labat, maître d'armes
       title: The Art of Fencing; Or, The Use of the Small Sword
        date: None
       words: 27462
      flesch: 66
     summary: Some Masters teach to parry this Thrust with the Hand in _Quart_, which is very dangerous if the Enemy pushes _Quart_ over the Arm in the Fort, or _Quart_ within, in the Feeble, there being an Opening in one, as well as the other Case; besides the Point is too far from the Line, to make a quick Return. The Feint, to which I give no other Name, it being the most used, and to distinguish it from the others, is done by feinting from _Quart_ to _Tierce_, with a little beat of the Foot, keeping the Body back: the Wrist must be raised in _Quart_, and the Button a little lower than the Pommel, near the Adversary's Blade; by which means you are covered, and can make your Thrust swifter.
    keywords: adversary; body; foot; guard; hand; left; order; right; sword; thrust; time
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        item: #2 of 3
          id: 31214
      author: Headley, Rowland George Allanson-Winn, Baron
       title: Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence
        date: None
       words: 30766
      flesch: 73
     summary: Good men, with their fists, and those who are proficient with the sword or stick, often complain that, in actual conflict with the rough and ready, though ignorant, assailant, they are worsted because the adversary does something diametrically opposed to what a scientific exponent of either art would do in similar circumstances. Then, again, there is no better weapon for guarding a heavy blow aimed at you with a thick bludgeon than an umbrella, which, with its wire ribs and soft covering, is almost unbreakable, when all its ribs are held tightly with _both_ hands; it is also, for the same reason, when thus grasped with both hands, an excellent defence against the attack of a large powerful dog, which may spring at your throat; but, in this case, remember to get one of your legs well behind the other so as to bring most of the weight of your body on the foremost leg, and, if you are lucky, you may have the satisfaction of throwing the animal on his back.
    keywords: arm; blade; body; cut; cuts; edge; fig; foot; guard; hand; hilt; hit; illustration; left; lunge; man; play; point; position; right; shoulder; staff; stick; sword; time; use; weapon
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        item: #3 of 3
          id: 39385
      author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
       title: The Jester's Sword How Aldebaran, the King's Son Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest
        date: None
       words: 5654
      flesch: 89
     summary: The Jester's Sword_ BECAUSE he was born in Mars' month, which is ruled by that red war-god, they gave him the name of a red star--Aldebaran; the red star that is the eye of Taurus. But Aldebaran's so far out-blazed them all, with comet's trail and planets in most favourable conjunction, that from his first year it was known the Sword of Conquest should be his.
    keywords: aldebaran; day; face; heart; jester; men; sword; thou; thought
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