Alia found her own emotions and tensions running down in a manner not unlike that of the target dummy.

A Training mode exists to help new players get used to the game, using wooden target dummies for practice and to introduce them to concepts of the multiplayer modes.

With her vamp speed and strength, I was a moving target dummy.

He held the fourth knife in his left hand, tip downward, looking at the three knives which formed a small triangle at the center of the target dummy.

She stood twelve paces from a swinging target dummy, a case of blades on a stand next to her.

As she moved into the training room, Alia caught her own reflection multiplied thousands of times in the crystal prisms of a fencing mirror swinging in the heart of a target dummy.

A training table remained, and a fencing mirror with its crystal prisms quiescent, the target dummy beside it patched and padded, looking like an ancient foot soldier maimed and battered in the wars.

We even got her a present, of sort; I had located a military target dummy, used for testing explosive and high- caliber ammunition.

Used as target dummies.

He was deprived of sleep for days on end, had rifle butts repeatedly slammed into his back and served as a target dummy for flying kung fu kicks.