stop-thrust

It was a perfect stop-thrust, even though his sword wasn't really designed for fencing moves, and he'd had to bring it up two-handed.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

It was a perfect stop-thrust, even though his sword wasn't really designed for fencing moves, and he'd had to bring it up two-handed.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He parried a talon-strike aimed at his face and landed a stop-thrust that did no apparent damage to its victim.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

He parried a talon-strike aimed at his face and landed a stop-thrust that did no apparent damage to its victim.

The Otherworld Lackey, Mercedes 1992

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

I caught her with a stop-thrust as soon as I could after that.

The Guns of Avalon Zelazny, Roger 1972

The commander lunged forward with a straight stop-thrust aimed at the groin of the nearest one.

Despoilers of the Golden Empire Randall Garrett 1957

The one thing that I remember clearly is a set-to with swords that I had with a big fellow, just as we had come close to the Citadel, that ended in a way (that would have surprised him mightily had he lived long enough to comprehend it) by my finishing him by means of a stop-thrust followed by a beautiful draw-cut that was a famous stroke with my old sabre-master at Leipsic.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier