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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Ben has been training me in courage ever since he was born; apparently the prize-ring or the circus would have been his natural field of operations; so I have chained him down to the law and given him an aeroplane so he can work off his extra steam away from the publicity of earth."
To win in war, as in the prize-ring, something more than vigour and courage and determination are required; to those qualities must be added experience and training, and experience and training were precisely what those naval reservists lacked. Moreover, their equipment left much to be desired.
No more lecturing, I am sure, for the next six months at least;" and the young officer rubbed his hands together, at the success of his shot, with as much satisfaction and unconcern for the future, as if he had been in his own native England; in the midst of a prize-ring.
'I must have Him, he said 'I must have Him and Marion. Again with the renewed decision came a glow of happiness and a sense of rest, until there rose, as if to smite him, the thought of Ireland of Ireland, poor, derided of strangers, deserted by her sons, roped in as a prize-ring where selfish men struggle ignobly for sordid gains The children of the land fled from it sick with despair.
Day after day they spent in the woods, hunting big game, and both had become proficient in the use of firearms; while to their boxing skill learned under a veteran of the prize-ring, who was employed by Chester's father in the town in which they lived they added that dexterity which comes only with hard experience. Daily fencing lessons had made both proficient in the use of sword and saber.
It will run its course a short one, we trust and be followed or joined by new drugs contributed by conscienceless trade. Intemperance we use the word in its special but most common signification is debasing. Compensation, so far as it goes, is found in the abandonment by those communities among whom it is most rife of certain gross amusements, such as cock-fighting and the prize-ring.
"Well, well, well!" he muttered. "Now, who under the sun could have foreseen that?" I forebore remarks. "William ought to be in the prize-ring," continued the inventor sadly. "But he's a bright chap. He'll keep his mouth shut. Lucky er nobody else was in the house, wasn't it?" "How are you going to account to Mrs. Hawkins for those black eyes?" "Oh we can say that we were boxing and you hit me.
Be sure to come; and do your best about the clerks, if you love me". The Roman gentleman of elegant and accomplished tastes, keeping a troop of private gladiators, and thinking of hiring them out, to our notions, is a curious combination of character; but the taste was not essentially more brutal than the prize-ring and the cock-fights of the last century.
The sweet idyll of "Life in London" is a perfect garden of slang; Tom the Corinthian and Bob Logic lard their phrases with the idiom of the prize-ring, and the author obligingly italicises the knowing words so that one has no chance of missing them.
The old traditions, dimly surviving in the minds of the native Cretans, of the bull-fight and the prize-ring, and the tribute of toreadors from the conquered nations, seemed to be corroborated by the very decorations of the palace walls, still visible amidst the ruins, and around them were woven the stories which have come down to us as legends of early Greece.
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