reverso

And in some strange backward reverso-rhetorical deconstructionist logic, when we read 'witch-hunter' over and over in connection with Sarah Palin we begin to think of her as the hunted witch.

Evan Derkacz: Witches, Fine... But Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance? 2008

The English knight was master of all the mystery of the stoccata, imbrocata, punto-reverso, incartata, and so forth, which the Italian masters of defence had lately introduced into general practice.

The Monastery 2008

To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific imbroccata, stoccata, or punto reverso, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness.

The Monastery 2008

Malmarriedad he was reverso-gassed by the frisque of her frasques and her prytty pyrrhique.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Al reverso we have people of some means illegally working in a country that offers very little in support for those in need.

Working in Mexico 1996

Al reverso we have people of some means illegally working in a country that offers very little in support for those in need.

Working in Mexico 1996

Al reverso we have people of some means illegally working in a country that offers very little in support for those in need.

Working in Mexico 1996

Al reverso we have people of some means illegally working in a country that offers very little in support for those in need.

Working in Mexico 1996

Punto is a direct hit, reverso a backward blow, and so on.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

And I would teach these nineteen the special rules, as your punto, * your reverso, your stoccata, your imbroccata, your passada, your montanto; till they could all play very near, or altogether, as well as myself.

English Literature for Boys and Girls