Crossword-Solution: FENCERS 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When fiddlers made not so pleasant mirth as fencers, and men could sit with quiet stomachs, while hanging was played before them.[AZ] Old considerations made few mementos by skulls and bones upon their monuments.

Now, I've known of some Chicago men who were pretty notorious fences, but I never heard of any fencers coming from there.

Boxers, fencers, players at the Italian game of morn, “prestidigitators,” and all who depend for their success on rapidity of motion, know what differences there are in the personal equation of movement.

Sometimes a rapid pass encountered only empty air; sometimes blade crossed blade above the wielders’ heads; sometimes the fencers lunged at each other’s breast, and yet the blows glanced aside at the last moment and the blades met in air once more.

They were to attack one another in whole detachments; but first it was permitted the most famous fencers to have a series of single combats, in which the strength, dexterity, and courage of opponents were best exhibited.