Sentence examples for last duel from inspiring English sources

This rather daunting fact turns up in James Landale's "The Last Duel: A True Story of Death and Honor" (Canongate; $24).

Nor, as we'd expect from someone given to hissing at actors onstage and accusing strangers of cheating at cards, was his last duel his first.

Perhaps the most affecting element of James Landale's "The Last Duel" is its measured account of how peaceable men living ordinary lives, whose worlds were circumscribed by the flow of business transactions and church functions, could be ensnared by the concept of honor and forced into a situation where extreme violence was meted out with extreme politeness.

In his youth her husband had turned down Peel's offer of the post of Irish Lord of the Treasury, and Peel thereafter ignored him, but is said to have prevented him from fighting what would have been the last duel in England.

Lochte and Phelps were long-standing rivals, with the latter winning their last duel by claiming 200m individual medley gold in London.

Eric Jager teaches medieval literature at the University of California-Los Angeles and is the author of The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France.

That September day saw one of the last duels to be fought on English soil.

One of the last duels that took place on the grounds was fought in 1838 over a newspaper story.

Word got around and the idea was so comical that a witty article in The London Times humiliated them both and made theirs one of the last duels in English history.

The last legal duel in South Carolina was fought near Bishopville, the county seat, in 1880, after which dueling was outlawed.

In the 20th century, duels still took place occasionally in France though often only for form's sake, with precautions such that neither sword nor pistol could prove fatal, or even for publicity, the last recorded duel occurring in 1967.