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- noun Plural form of
dueller .
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Examples
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Was a nice touch though to see Capcom release SF4 for us desktop duellers.
Fight! SVGL 2009
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Also, the guns are correct ... hammer shotguns, muzzleloading duellers, Colts and Winchesters.
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His conscience interposes itself betwixt two duellers, and whilst it would part both, is by both wounded.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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His conscience interposes itself betwixt duellers, and whilst it would part both, is by both wounded.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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A wag chalked on Abershaw's gibbet a figure of the two duellers, Tierney saying: "As well fire at the devil's darning-needle."
William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898
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He had been waiting a few paces from the Inn to see the duellers come out.
The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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This I thought fit to remark, being desirous to cut off all excuse from duellers, and to take from those sons of shame their usurped pretences of honour.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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It argued also, by the way, a strange savageness in the Roman temper, that men, women, and children should come with such eagerness to, and enjoy themselves with such delight at those barbarous spectacles, in which their chiefest diversion and recreation was to behold these duellers kill one another upon the stage.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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"No, you don't; you may understand that case better," shoving his long-barrelled Manton duellers on to the middle of the table.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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Over time I realised they were like a pair of old duellers who kept their own pistols in their holsters, but let their seconds and thirds fire away.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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