Sentence examples for for single combat from inspiring English sources

I may volunteer for single combat myself.

Under Rule 17 of the Warriors Guild Standard Contractt, anyone volunteering for single combat during a siege more than 100 miles from Athens and lasting not less than one year is eligible for triple pay, plus retirement on full salary with payments to be continued after one's death to female descendants up to and including the third generation.

FOR the jazz pianist, unaccompanied solo playing is the musical equivalent of single combat: no bass, no drums, just one mind, two hands and 88 keys.

The details of single combat were different.

Alexandrus and Menelaus are to fight for Helen in single combat, that she and all her wealth may go with him who is the victor.

Radiaro and Calafia issue a challenge to two Christian warriors to engage them in single combat for the purpose of deciding the battle.

The letter invited Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, or any other English bishop, to come to a debate with him; if they preferred, he wrote, they could settle the matter for both countries through single combat.

In the battle for Anuradhapura, Dutthagamani killed Elara in single combat and became the king of Anuradhapura, bringing the entire country under his rule.

He invaded England (1388), besieged Newcastle for three days, and captured the pennon of Sir Henry Percy ("Hotspur") in single combat.

It was called "single combat".

Menelaus would have defeated Paris in single combat, but Aphrodite rescued him, and the war continued.