Hodinskoe field to see the famous boxing-match arranged by Orlov. ❋ Unknown (2006)
London coaches — a stage in and out — and might be seen swaggering through the courts in pink of early mornings, and indulged in dice and blind-hookey at nights, and never missed a race or a boxing-match; and rode flat-races, and kept bull-terriers. ❋ Unknown (2006)
What was that story meanwhile which came round to our friends, of young Mr. Lutestring and young Mr. Drabshaw the Quaker having a boxing-match at a tavern in the city, and all about this young lady? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Rogers, Esquires; and a boxing-match, in which the athletic author of “Pelham” was pitched against the hardy mountain bard, Wordsworth. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A boxing-match came off, but neither of the men were very game or severely punished, so that Mr. Warrington and the rest of the spectators had but little pleasure out of that encounter. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Our days were enlivened by visits from the Arabs who were also bound for Unyanyembe; by comical scenes in the camp; sometimes by court-martials held on the refractory; by a boxing-match between ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
People imagine that the war is only a gigantic boxing-match at which they are gazing from afar, thanks to the papers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“But upon looking over the list just now it seemed to me that you, old fossil, had come again to make as much as fun of me, as if you were putting up a stage for a boxing-match.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
But they were exhausted and dejected, like those clowns whom you see parodying a boxing-match and who, lying on top of one another, go on aimlessly punching the air. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
So saying, he seized all the money on the table, and a kind of boxing-match ensued between him and the bankers, in which he, being a tall and strong man, got the better of them. ❋ Various (N/A)
Sharp altercation followed this insult, and the soldiers went off, but soon returned with a party of their comrades, when there was a challenge to a boxing-match, and this grew into a fight, the rope-makers using their "wouldring-sticks," and the soldiers clubs and cutlasses. ❋ Various (N/A)
"But upon looking over the list just now it seemed to me that you, old fossil, had come again to make as much as fun of me, as if you were putting up a stage for a boxing-match." ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)
When the heroes, therefore, demanded permission to land, they were informed that they could only do so provided that one of their number should engage in a boxing-match with the king. ❋ E.M. Berens (N/A)
But their enlightened horror could not exceed the disgust shown by a young South American, who witnessed a casual boxing-match between two boys in Hyde Park, surrounded and encouraged, as he expressed himself, by well-dressed barbarians. ❋ Various (N/A)
Again such like love arises from previous acquaintance, whereas goodwill sometimes arises suddenly, as happens to us if we look on at a boxing-match, and we wish one of the boxers to win. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
When Fitzgerald arrived on the scene with a Captain Miles he insisted on a boxing-match with the supposed captain, who, he affirmed, had been among the assailants of the previous night. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Mailey stood between the two parties, and, like the zealous referee in a boxing-match who separates the two combatants, he always took a chance of getting a knock from each. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1926)
There was a foot-race, and there was a boxing-match, and there was wrestling and weight-throwing. ❋ Padraic Colum (1926)
