Crossword-Solution: RIPOST 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But from the gloom came a little laugh to answer him, and his angry lunge was foiled by an enveloping movement that ended in a ripost.

When my foil had been hit up into the air about three times in succession to the triumphant _Riposte!_ of the little Frenchman, I would determine to keep "Quite cool." In spite of all, however, when I lunged forward it was with rather a savage stamp, which he would copy delightedly and exclaim triumphantly--"Mademoiselle se fâche!" I could have killed that Frenchman cheerfully! His quick orders "_Paré, paré--quatre, paré--contre--Riposté!_" etc.

How can we speak with decent patience of a man who seriously thought that he should conciliate the conservative and theological elements of the society at his feet, by such an odious opera-piece as the Feast of the Supreme Being? This was designed as a triumphant ripost to the Feast of Reason, which Chaumette and his friends had celebrated in the winter.

But Lancers are usually no match against other cavalry, who can parry and ripost before the lance can resume the guard.

The best monument to their memory will stand as another keel on the deep--a quick ripost to the enemy, in his victim repaired and strengthened and returned to sea.