19 adjectives to describe wrestler

They were professional wrestlers and formed part of the retinue of the princes, who kept them for their private amusement and for public entertainment.

Could this indeed be the mighty wrestler of whom she had heard so many tales of late, how that he lived an anchorite, deep hidden in the green, hating the pomp and turmoil of cities, and contemning women and all their ways?

A torch-bearer and the man with the sword spun half round, collided, and fell, the one across the other, like drunken wrestlers.

They have then engaged two giant wrestlers, Krishna killing his opponent outright.

ANTAE'OS, a gigantic wrestler of Libya (or Irassa).

" When the ladies were alone, Rosalind's talk being still of Orlando, Celia began to perceive her cousin had fallen in love with the handsome young wrestler, and she said to Rosalind, "Is it possible you should fall in love so suddenly?"

But the hardiest Grasmere wrestler, stooping under the hood of a hansom, could not resist a vigorous pull at his coat tails; and Marmaduke was presently back in his seat again, with Susanna clinging to him and half sobbing: "Oh, Bob, youve killed me.

Greek athletes now made their appearance (for the first time in 568) alongside of the native wrestlers and boxers.

The rival wrestlers generally bound into the ring, slapping their thighs and arms with a loud resounding slap.

He is unpardonable, therefore, who cannot distinguish one from the other; but lays on history the paint of poetry, its flattery, fable, and hyperbole: it is just as ridiculous as it would be to clothe one of our robust wrestlers, who is as hard as an oak, in fine purple, or some such meretricious garb, and put paint {26} on his cheeks; how would such ornaments debase and degrade him!

James, before he beheld Betty, was vain of his Strength, a rough Wrestler, and quarrelsome Cudgel-Player; Betty a Publick Dancer at Maypoles, a Romp at Stool-Ball: He always following idle Women, she playing among the Peasants: He a Country Bully, she a Country Coquet.

The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, Quits not his hold, but halting conquers Heaven; Nor was the stream of thy devotion stopp'd, When from the body such a limb was lopp'd, As to thy present state was no less maim, Though thy wise choice has since repair'd the same.

On the knolls round about there was breathless silence while the skilled stag-wrestlers clinched.

"Oh," sneered the other, "I thought you were a skillful wrestler.

After braving in silence the storms of perhaps a dozen or twenty centuries, they seem in this, their last calamity, to become somewhat communicative, making sign of a very unwilling acceptance of their fate, holding themselves well up from the ground on knees and elbows, seemingly ill at ease, and anxious, like stubborn wrestlers, to rise again.

Her face was calm and serene, bearing an expression of heavenly gravity, and which can only be compared to that of a valiant wrestler, who after making unheard of efforts to gain the victory, sinks back and dies in the very act of seizing the prize.

A difficult enterprise is "a tough proposition," an agile wrestler, "a slippery proposition," and so forth.

The place of perfection is above, where all tears are wiped away, and the weary wrestler is at rest. 8.

Close by is the tomb of the Pahalwari, where a celebrated wrestler of Shah Jahan's time is buried.

19 adjectives to describe  wrestler