That life would not have involved verbal duels.

He studied her a little more closely now, evidently enjoying the gentle verbal duel.

The subject was the weather, but it turned into a verbal duel that captured their tense relationship in images of wind, clouds and rain.

There was a lengthy silence, a pause in the verbal duel, then the unseen speaker made the next logical move.

Harry and the Devil engage in a verbal duel as to who is truly the most evil of the two.

Or would it remain a verbal duel only?

Korita's voice sounded on the communicators, and ended the verbal duel.

With only a few words, he managed to change it from an imminent beating into a verbal duel between himself and Larry.

So this trial, like the first, became a verbal duel between prosecution and defense to build a negative image of each man for the jury.

Ah, to be able to listen to their verbal duel, he thought.