Speaking of "tried out," I don't understand its use in the original sentence.
I also don't understand what 9 or 1 means in your posts. Could you please clarify?
Hello Barb D, I heard you were dead!
I can't really see what's difficult about 'tried out' - something attempted, done or having been done but which hadn't worked out, etc.
To the sentence concerned, it is, dare I say, a work in progress so perhaps I should have held back. Then again I had failed to appreciate its awkwardness, but I've no shame either so that's that. Anybody who thinks the process (writing) unconscionably overwrought is recommended to get hold of a later edition of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and read the author's introduction as to the effort extracted.... Like I say, a work in progress and right now I'm going with 'It had been kung fu kicks, tried out with shouts of indignation, thought best to set about the mugger with.' That, of course, could change before a minute's out.
Concerning the numbers 1 and 9 etc, sometimes when I send a dispatch I receive a message saying there are not enough characters, and this regardless of how legion the figure. I was advised a way to overcome this was to insert a cardinal or so. Praise be - Hah!
Hey presto, it has worked this time without even a zero. Don't ask me, perhaps it has to do with when text is 'quoted'. As a fellow class-mate of mine once so memorably wrote after having got so far as to inscribe his name atop a geography exam paper 'Sorry Sor, I know no more'.
Sorry, with regard to 'tried out'
in the original sentence - basically, it means Kicks used or which were employed.