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Updated: May 4, 2025
"What was it you asked me about Samson and Goliath?" Boswell observed, as he gathered up his manuscript from the floor beside the Enchanted Typewriter. "Whether they'd ever been in Honolulu?" "No," I replied. "I got a letter from Hawaii the other day asking for the result of the prize-fight the day Kidd ran off with the house-boat." "Oh," replied Boswell. "That?
There is not a regatta or a prize-fight in which the betting would not be seriously affected by the discovery that either party used the beguiling weed. The argument is irresistible, or rather, it is not so much an argument as a plea of guilty under the indictment.
Was it credible that a highly connected gentleman in this enviable position would engage in a prize-fight, risking disgrace and personal disfigurement, for a sum of money that could be no object to him, or for a glory that would appear to all his friends as little better than infamy?
As one of the brigade generals said: "San Juan was won by the regimental officers and men. We had as little to do as the referee at a prize-fight who calls 'time. We called 'time' and they did the fighting." I have seen many illustrations and pictures of this charge on the San Juan hills, but none of them seem to show it just as I remember it.
Anyhow, at six o'clock or thereabouts the gig was ordered out, and every blessed officer on board went ashore in her; which was clean contrary to regulations, of course, but there happened to be a cinematograph show they all wanted to see at the big music-hall some prize-fight or other.
Marcella made a face. "Poor little thing! I always think of the remark about the Queen in 'Alice in Wonderland. 'A little kindness, and putting her hair in curl-papers, would do wonders for her. She is so limp and thin and melancholy. As for him isn't there a race or a prize-fight we can send him to?" Mrs. Allison tapped her lightly on the lips.
He joined them and listened attentively to the description of a prize-fight Parry had seen the night before; while Brissenden, in his glory, plunged into the manufacture of a toddy and the serving of wine and whiskey-and-sodas. At his command, "Bring in the clan," Andy departed to go the round of the rooms for the lodgers. "We're lucky that most of them are here," Brissenden whispered to Martin.
They found that $200,000 had been paid for the trolley franchise and enormous sums for permits to raise gas rates, for telephone franchises, for prize-fight privileges and in connection with a realty transaction. The trolley bribe funds had been carried in a shirt box to Ruef by the company's attorney. Other transactions had been more or less "covered."
I don't mind confessing to you here on the point of departing from England that I admire the noble art, sir: so much so that I have wasted a whole day in the neighbourhood of Fareham, hunting for a prize-fight which never came off." "But but I don't mind confessing to your Excellency," gasped Captain Suckling, "that I too have been at Fareham and have er met with the same disappointment."
In The Everlasting Mercy, the prize-fight, given in detail, by rounds, is followed by an orgy of drunkenness rising to a scale almost Homeric. The man, crazy with alcohol, runs amuck, and things begin to happen. The village is turned upside down. Two powerful contrasts are dramatically introduced, one as an interlude between violent phases of the debauch, the other as a conclusion.
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