It was the face of a typical prize-fighter; of one who had put in long years of service in the squared ring and, by that means, developed and emphasized all the marks of the fighting beast. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He is a sublimated soul that treads the heights and breathes refined ether — in self-comparison with the prize-fighter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!” roared the prize-fighter. ❋ Unknown (2009)
During this period no prize-fighter ever trained more harshly and faithfully for a contest than he trained to subdue the wild savage in him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She had never seen one, but he in no way resembled her conception of what a prize-fighter must be -- the human brute with tiger eyes and a streak for a forehead. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But believe me, it requires a thousand times more skill to avoid the many and quick punches of a prize-fighter who keeps his eyes open and strikes with intelligence. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Far better to have the front of one's face pushed in by the fist of an honest prize-fighter than to have the lining of one's stomach corroded by the embalmed beef of a dishonest manufacturer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He raises his hands in horror at the thought of the brutish prize-fighter, and then sits down and gorges himself on roast beef, rare and red, running blood under every sawing thrust of the implement called a knife. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And I suppose I am, though, I'm no prize-fighter --- I'm just a normal guy fighting his way through life. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The big fellow knocked a signal, and we were in a dim hall with a couple of hard-looking citizens, one of 'em a black with shoulders like a prize-fighter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In age he was rather younger than Douglas -- forty-five at the most -- a tall, straight, broad-chested fellow with a clean-shaved, prize-fighter face, thick, strong, black eyebrows, and a pair of masterful black eyes which might, even without the aid of his very capable hands, clear a way for him through a hostile crowd. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What job requires more talent, brain surgeon or prize-fighter? ❋ Steve Hulett (2009)
I say Reid should muster up some of that prize-fighter backbone of his and strip Joe Lieberman's committee assignments from him like super-glued bandages. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Down by the side of the Old Palace, he shows me the winding lane where raffish Mr Barnett, the garage-owner, lived with his pretty daughter Vera and her boyfriend, a prize-fighter; he points up above us, remote upon Richmond Hill, to the bulky shape of the Star and Garter hospital, where Nell Burn, a lively Irishwoman, used to take Virginia on regular visits to disabled veterans of the First War. ❋ Miranda Seymour (2009)
They (the Dookies) also demonstrate the kind of prize-fighter tenacity Hillary claims as her own. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I mean, like, you know, we were talking the other day, it's kind of like a prize-fighter -- a right-handed prize-fighter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We have a prize-fighter swinging back and going, hitting on the right-hand side. ❋ Unknown (2008)
That little patch of lonely agricultural country had fallen under the power of a band of bullies led by a chief called Bill Gore who had begun life as a butcher boy and developed into a prize-fighter and a professional sport. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
