You must not try fencing with Miss Ponsonby.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Since the miserable Christmas Eve when he had succeeded in pricking her into a fencing match, he had not seen her.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
They sent him to school and gave him an excellent education; young Cherami learned readily enough; he was intelligent and quick-witted; he became especially strong in such elegant accomplishments as fencing, riding, and gymnastics; but he had the greatest aversion for serious work of every sort, and when his parents asked him: "Do you want to be a lawyer, a doctor, a man of letters, a broker, or a general?"
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock