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It aims to answer the basic question: In a situation where a thousand contestants entered the knock-down and drag-out struggle, first for survival and then for supremacy, what qualities or qualifications enabled Romans to win the laurel crown of victory?
I never saw Heaven's blaze in the eye of a money-maker, but I have seen it in the black face of a shouting nigger at a knock-down-and- drag-out revival. I intimated that I was happy when you heard me five years ago, I reckon. Well, since then I have become so much more so that that time seems like stumbling-ground, full of ruts and snags. Oh, I could tell you wonders, wonders, wonders!
"Honest to God, Saxon," he took up the broken thread, "they's times when I've hated them, when I wanted to jump over the ropes and wade into them, knock-down and drag-out, an' show'm what fightin' was. Take that night with Billy Murphy. Billy Murphy! if you only knew him. My friend. As clean an' game a boy as ever jumped inside the ropes to take the decision. Him!
Whenever we see sincere symptoms of their desire to settle it by justice, we will not only accept their suggestions but we will be glad and eager to accept them, as I said in my speech. I would be ashamed to use the knock-down and drag-out language; that is not the language of liberty, that is the language of braggadocio. For my part, I have no desire to march triumphantly into Berlin.
"The only lunatic, up to date, Miss Corson, has been a Canuck who had a knock-down and drag-out with a settee and " Lana was not finding Wyman's statement especially convincing in the way of establishing faith in his sanity. "I thank you for letting me in! I must find my father." The interior of the Capitol building was familiar ground to her.
We blazed away at each other with blank cartridges; and when the scene ended in a hand-to-hand encounter a general knock-down and drag-out the way Jack and I killed Indians was "a caution." We would kill them all off in one act, but they would come up again ready for business in the next.
It was knock-down and drag-out theology, the ruthless machinery of organized churchism the rank materialism of things temporal not the teachings of Christ and the spirit of the Christian religion which so long filled the world with blood and tears.
He would gladly have embraced the opportunity of a rough knock-down and drag-out fight with a picked champion from the enemy's camp. As he passed along the eastern border of the campus and glanced up at St. George's Hall, it no longer appeared the impregnable fortress of privilege he had once thought it. Yet, in reality, the towers of the college had never looked more formidable.
Have we got to have a knock-down and drag-out on this of all nights? Have I got to lick you again? Do you want to roll into the Blind Spot?" Why did God curse me with such a temper? On such moments as this I could feel something within me snapping. It was fury and unreason. How I loved him! And yet we had fought a thousand times over just such provocation.
Morgan cleared out of the mists of this sudden assault in a moment, for he was a man who had taken and given hard blows in more than one knock-down and drag-out in his day. He caught the swing that was meant for a knock-out on his left guard, and drove his able right fist into the fellow's face. The pugilistic cowboy, rare fellow among his kind, went to the floor.
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