Sentence examples for lead to a duel from inspiring English sources

Eventually, though, their differences lead to a duel (Popsicles versus franks and tongs).

Scorsese asked Miranda to explain the finer points of masculine politesse that, in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York, could lead to a duel like the one that ended in Alexander Hamilton's death.

A trivial argument between Onegin and Lensky leads to a duel in which Lensky is killed.

An altercation with Charles Floquet led to a duel (July 13) in which the elderly prime minister inflicted a severe wound on the General.

The rivalry between these two publications led to a duel in which John Scott, the first editor of the London Magazine, was mortally wounded.

The hatred between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, founding fathers and political rivals, led to a duel in 1804 that ended in the death of Hamilton, who had thrived on defaming Burr.

Moving between 1809 and the present at a Derbyshire country house, it offers up a mystery for two academics who clumsily try to piece together whether a volatile mix of sex and poetry led to a duel there nearly 200 years earlier.

By spending an estimated £10,000 a year from his private purse, he made the regiment the smartest in the service (he introduced what came to be called the cardigan jacket); but again there was trouble because of his severity toward his officers, which led to a duel with one of them, Captain Harvey Tuckett, who was wounded.

At least one such incident almost led to a duel with another senior cavalry commander, in front of their men.

During the 1809 legislative session, a disagreement between him and Henry Clay led to a duel between the two men in which both were slightly wounded.

It was here that a quarrel with Otto, Duke of Brunswick, almost led to a duel between the two men, narrowly averted by the intervention of the French king, John II.