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Vinette Robinson's smart Ophelia, who distributes psycho-active pills in place of herbs, is also Osric, the fencing-master.
Multiple Personalities at Play Paul Levy 2011
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He was born about 1812, had been a silk merchant in Italy, claimed to have fought under Garibaldi, and styled himself "Colonel", but when Brown met him in New York in 1857 he was eking a bare living as a fencing-master, translator and occasional journalist.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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His wit, or rather humour, bordered on the sarcastic, and intimated a discontented man; and although he showed no displeasure when the provost attempted a repartee, yet it seemed that he permitted it upon mere sufferance, as a fencing-master, engaged with a pupil, will sometimes permit the tyro to hit him, solely by way of encouragement.
Redgauntlet 2008
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This included fleshing out his relationship with his fencing-master Rodizel David, don't tell me you'd write fencingmaster...
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008
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This included fleshing out his relationship with his fencing-master Rodizel David, don't tell me you'd write fencingmaster...
Archive 2008-08-01 Tim Stretton 2008
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Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in the
Les Miserables 2008
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So when anybody comes to pick a quarrel with Finot, he finds old Giroudeau, Captain of the Dragoons of the Guard, that set out as a private in a cavalry regiment in the army of the Sambre-et-Meuse, and was fencing-master for five years to the First Hussars, army of Italy!
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French fencing-master, and a dancing-master of the same nation, resided at Tunbridge during that season when Harry made his appearance: these men of science the young Virginian sedulously frequented, and acquired considerable skill and grace in the peaceful and warlike accomplishments which they taught.
The Virginians 2006
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Lord Sanquhar hired ruffians, and had the fencing-master assassinated; for which his lordship was capitally tried, condemned, and hanged.
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Crichton, Lord Sanquhar, a peer of Scotland, from a vain ambition to excel a fencing-master in his own art, played at rapier and dagger with him.
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