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Sixte

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Sixte
    a parry in which the hand is on guard opposite the right breast, the point of the sword raised and moved a little to the right
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. siex; Ger. sechs, Gael. se; also L. sex, Gr. hex, Sans. shash.

Usage in literature

This old Harry the Sixt has had the undermost. "The Black Arrow a Tale of Two Roses" by Robert Louis Stevenson

M. le Baron Sixte du Chatelet informed himself as to the manners and customs of the upper town, and took his cue accordingly. "Two Poets" by Honore de Balzac

The sixt place is that of Rom. "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes

Yet it was significant of the mentality of our High Command, as was afterward pointed out derisively by Sixte von Arnim. "Now It Can Be Told" by Philip Gibbs

I run sixt' or hundre' miles wit'out stop for rest. "The Flaming Forest" by James Oliver Curwood

Sixt week do fourty and two day. "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)" by John Holland Rose

His two fellow-delegates from "de sixt" sought him and discussed intentions. "The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him" by Paul Leicester Ford

And here he goes against himselfe in the twenty sixt Chapter of his Rep. 1. "Machiavelli, Volume I" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Left a widow, she married again, this time the Baron Sixte du Chatelet. "Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z" by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules François Christophe

Although the sixt part of the same hundreth may full well be permitted. "The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1" by William Painter

Usage in poetry
The sixt Olympiad to thy coasts doth bring
Thy wishd Sunbeam and makes thee see thy King.
Thou dost well, Scotland, thus thy myrth t'expresse
In smiles alone, for all words are farre lesse.