hip-throw

Updated: May 19, 2025

He was thin, but wiry, and at school he had learned the familiar hip-throw that is as old as Cain and Abel. It was all he did know of wrestling, but now it stood him in good stead. He was strong with rage, too and almost as soon as they grappled he found his chance. Sam's heels flew up and he went sprawling in the dust.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Yan never knew until years afterward, when a grown man and he and Raften were talking of the old days, that he had been for some time winning respect from the rough-and-ready farmer, but what finally raised him to glorious eminence was the hip-throw that he served that day on Sam. Raften was all right, Yan believed, but what of Sam? They had not spoken yet.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned