All that changed in 1998, when India and Pakistan rattled the world with dueling nuclear tests.
"Oh, you know quite a bit. The sport of fencing is also developed from military skills. It is a sport of dueling with foil, epee, and saber."
As for dueling with the enemy in actual combat, besides mastering the above basic postures and principles skillfully, the most important thing is feint attack, that is to say, unexpectedly speaking.
For other aristocratic amusements like gambling, dueling, and warfare,
Occasionally, we can see the dueling of the Miao people in the open plain, and struggle against each other with a pole or two knives.
But as for enlisting-when I think of joining the army in varnished boots and a white linen suit and armed with only a pair of dueling pistols-- And those long cold miles in the snow after my boots wore out and I had no overcoat and nothing to eat .
They had been dueling for hours and finally called a draw.
"The foil is a light, flexible weapon with a blunted point; the epee or dueling sword is a straight, narrow, stuff weapon without cutting edges; the saber is a light version of the old cavalry broadsword, and has a flexible, triangular blade."
When Darth Vader and his clone troopers attacked the Temple the night of Order 66, the new Dark Lord choked Bene with one hand while dueling Drallig with the other.
The epee is the dueling sword. The blade is stiffer.
But I was already an emotional wreck, and the thought of thrashing out the details through dueling lawyers filled me with dread.
