boxing-bouts

Updated: May 10, 2025

Oho, Baronet! it will be a hot skirmish. He who has been under fire from a dozen such old soldiers needs a week or two to recover from the experience. A pleasing fate indeed, to play the fox to such hounds! We'll find some one to be the central figure this evening. You must be among the laughers, and then you can tell us something of the cock-fights and the boxing-bouts in England.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

Attracting crowds limited only by the size of the auditoriums, the boxing-bouts which were held, usually semi-weekly in all the stations, were a most diverting feature of winter life in camp. One reason for their popularity can be directly traced to their enforced use in the physical training of the stations.

Lawrence Perry - Our Navy in the War