sixte

He feinted in sixte, however, dropped his point beneath the parry that followed, extended his arm in quatre; raised himself and his blade into something resembling a stop-thrust targeting the left shoulder as the parry crossed, turned his wrist, and slashed Dalt across the left forearm.

Prince of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1991

His blade flashed forward, and I parried in quarte, attacked in sixte.

Knight of Shadows Zelazny, Roger 1989

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist.

Nine Princes In Amber Zelazny, Roger 1970

¶ The sixte is to do them also with al mekenesse bothe in spyryte and gesture.

A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

-- "The sixte petition, to change the sauage name of Kicowtan," was granted.

Colonial Records of Virginia Various

The sixte and laste is, they wilbe [111] pleased to change the savage name of Kiccowtan, and to give that Incorporation a newe name.

Colonial Records of Virginia Various

But even as I was making up my mind to this -- we were engaged in sixte at the time -- I saw a sudden chance.

Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912

Tour d'Azyr to be everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in sixte, Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease to lunge in tierce.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

S. Peter about the hour of sixte, the gates, that as then were shut, suddenly opened before them at the instance of their orisons and prayers.

The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

The same he speaketh yet more plainly in the preface of his sixte boke writen against

The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874