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He was captain of the football eleven, played on the base-ball team, and rowed in the crew, and in addition to that he was champion heavy-weight boxer and wrestler, and won the 220-yard dash. There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to the man who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius.
He had been a heavy-weight prize-fighter in the days of John L. Sullivan; then he had met John, and been, ever since, an honest crook who made an excellent living by conducting a boxing-school in which the real work was done by assistants. He resembled a hound with a neat black bow tie, and he drooled tobacco-juice down his big, raw-looking, moist, bristly, too-masculine chin.
Fox when he finally landed right in front of the bride and groom and made a neat bow. Then Mr. Turtle gave a heavy-weight carrying exhibition, and let all get on his back that could stick on, and walked right down the same Race Track where so long before he had run the celebrated race with Mr.
"She jumps on me if I say anything and then she cries herself sick thinking things. I would rather," she declared with peculiar distinctness, "have folks talk than think, wouldn't you, Hugh?" "I'm sorry to say I can't agree with you," replied the young man briefly. "Here, Shirley, I didn't know you were such a heavy-weight you run off with Sarah and tell Winnie what I have told you about Mother.
The pomp and outward show of that remarkable heavy-weight Spontini must have come as a relief after the Dresden opera-goer's ordinary fare; but Spontini, though he lays on his colours with a barbarian regal hand, never sparkles; he is altogether lacking in vivacity, elasticity; he had no gift for gracious or piquant melody.
"I'll bet half a crown that he's come down from London this morning, that he was up all night last night, and that he tells us so three times before the hounds go out of the paddock." Mr Pollock was the heavy-weight sporting literary gentleman. Edgehill
Really a good regiment," he grinned. "There's a sergeant-instructor, a chap called Ballinghall " "Not Joe Ballinghall, the well-known amateur heavy-weight?" "That's him right enough," said Doggie. "My dear old chap," said Oliver, "this is the funniest war that ever was." Peggy sailed in full of apologies and began to pour out coffee. "Do help yourselves.
His own doubt as to the result of his contest with the heavy-weight Champion of India arose from the fact that the latter was a person of much lower nervous development, a creature far less sensitive to shock, a denser and more elementary organism altogether, and possessed of a far thicker skull, shorter jaw, and thicker neck.
Though Trollope was a great traveller, he rarely uses his experiences in a novel, whereas Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Bulwer, George Eliot fill their pages with foreign adventures and scenes of travel. His hard riding as an overgrown heavy-weight, his systematic whist playing, his loud talk, his burly ubiquity and irrepressible energy in everything formed one of the marvels of the last generation.
The general appearance should be a bright, indefinite coloration, which is considered especially useful in a hunting dog. WEIGHT Dachshunds in Germany are classified by weight as follows: Light-weight Dogs up to 16-1/2 lb., bitches up to 15-1/2 lb. Middle-weight Dogs up to 22 lb., bitches up to 22 lb. Heavy-weight Over 22 lb. Toys Up to 12 lb. The German pound is one-tenth more than the English.
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