United States or Qatar ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
We found two of my roommates smoking and talking before the tiny open fire. Talbot Ward, full of the business in hand, rushed directly at the matter once the introductions were over. Our arrangements were very simple; the chairs were few and pushed back easily, and we had an old set of gloves. "Which is it to be?" I asked my guest, "boxing or wrestling?" "I said you couldn't lick me," he replied.
"What are we to do this afternoon?" asked Dave, seating himself beside Prescott as three of the chums started for the swimming pool. "Gymnastics," Dick replied. "Especially bar work. And some boxing, of course." "You ought to be excused from boxing for the present," grinned Darry. "You look as though you had had enough for a while."
In New Mexico, where at first it seemed everybody's hand was against me, I was gratified to find that I had got a reputation as a fist-fighter, and as I never practised boxing in my life, never had the gloves on, never had a very serious fist fight with anyone, the idea of having such a reputation was too funny; but why should one voluntarily repudiate it? It was useful.
The sheath of the sword, like the shield of Achilles, is carved, in exquisitely fine miniature, with scenes from the common life of the period; a dance at Almack's a boxing match at the Fives-court, a lord mayor's procession, and a man hanging. All these are fully and elegantly described. The Duke thus armed hastens to Brussels.
That he is no stranger to the science of the boxing and the wrestling-ring, that he has his share of the athletic accomplishments of Hermes and Pollux and Heracles, you may convince yourself by observing his renderings of those subjects. The eyes, according to Herodotus, are more credible witnesses than the ears; though the pantomime, by the way, appeals to both kinds of evidence.
It had evidently been a very fine affair, and Harry said that several swells from the West End had been present, and he related their ludicrous efforts to get in without being seen by anyone, and their terror when someone to frighten them called out 'Copper! Then Tom and he entered into a discussion on the subject of boxing, in which Tom, being a shy and undogmatic sort of person, was entirely worsted.
A fresh and healthy portrait the looking- glass presented of the Reverend Septimus, feinting and dodging with the utmost artfulness, and hitting out from the shoulder with the utmost straightness, while his radiant features teemed with innocence, and soft-hearted benevolence beamed from his boxing- gloves. It was scarcely breakfast-time yet, for Mrs.
He also gives useful information as to various weather averages for different parts of the country, at different times of the year, and furnishes sound advice for the camper, sportsman, and others who wish to know what they may expect in the weather line. BOXING, by D. C. Hutchison. Practical instruction for men who wish to learn the first steps in the manly art. Mr.
Of course there is room for much fancy here on the part of the spectator, but bears are in so many ways in their play, in their boxing, in their walking such grotesque parodies of man, that one is induced to accept the trainer's statements as containing a measure of truth.
There were plays in the theatres; there were contests of running, wrestling, boxing, throwing of spears and disks, and other "events," corresponding to our athletic sports; there were chariot-races in the Circus, answering to our horse-races at Epsom or Newmarket; and there were spectacles in the amphitheatre, to which, happily, we have no modern parallel.
Word Of The Day