I've got to start concentrating on the fencing match tonight.

He felt he was losing this fencing match with his old friend, and that the time had come to go on the attack.

Suddenly they returned, focused, met his as sabers meet in a fencing match between near friends.

I'm not about to start one of our verbal fencing matches.

The man bowed as one would to an opponent who had just scored a point in a fencing match.

"But then, a little fencing match always did put things into perspective for me."

Once again, I found myself in the middle of a verbal fencing match.

Would you have a little fencing match with me?

Maybe she really has gotten under his guard, and not just in their fencing matches.

He knew how easy it would be to get into another verbal fencing match with her.