130 Words to use with prizes

On asking an explanation of my friend, he informed me that these contests were favourite modes of settling private disputes in Morosofia: that the prize-fighters I saw, hired themselves to any one who conceived himself injured in person, character, or property.

Finally by temptation of extra prize money, a complement was made up.

When an artist visits a picturesque locality, why is the proceeding like an undecided prize-fight? Because it results in a draw.

The duty of naval officers is limited to visiting ships and stopping them, if need be, to carry them before a prize court.

She proposed to an academy the question of serf emancipation as a subject for their prize essay.

It was quite an informal little gathering, and the business was conducted in a free-and-easy manner, and with an entire absence of the cut-and-dried ceremony which characterized similar undertakings in the palmy days of the prize ring.

She wus such a trig sailor Sanchez decided to keep her afloat, an' sent a prize crew aboard ter sail her inter Porto Grande.

But the prize-winner was the Fiat racing machine which threw a tire while going fifty-five miles an hour on the Brighton Beach track.

He would be against prize-fighting to a certainty, but how far he might be inclined to convict a prize-fighter was another matter.

And they left the arrangements for the summer prize-giving to me.

However, in time, when most of the native troops had left Delhi, and the European regiments were quartered in walled enclosures with a guard at the gates to prevent egress, the looting on the part of the private soldiers ceased, and the prize agents were enabled to gather in the enormous wealth of the city without any trouble.

Coleridge's friend, who had to write a prize poem on the subject of Dr. Jenner, boldly opened with the invocation "Inoculation!

The Pulitzer prize murders.

(Of the committee of readers of the prize stories offered to the Humane Society.) BOSTON, MASS., Dec., 1893. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. ONLY A CUR II.

As almost every one thinks that he or she can compose poetry, and that better than others, it often happens that in a prize poem competition there is no lack of persons ready to enter the lists.

Prize boners for 1932.

SEE Indiana prize plays.

A prize-master and crew were put on board, with orders to keep company.

To the contentment of all he passed third in Algebra, and got a French prize-book at the public Midsummer examination.

When Franklin relates that Chippewayan Indians "prize pictures very highly and esteem any they can get," we seem to have come across a genuine esthetic sense, till we read that it makes no difference how badly they are executed, and that they are valued "as efficient charms.

Wherefore the lady married him when the Guards came home; and he will breed prize pigs; and sit at the board of guardians; and take in the Times; clothed, and in his right mind; for the old Berserk spirit is gone out of him; and he is become respectable, in a respectable age, and is nevertheless just as brave a fellow as ever."

Rousseau commenced his career as an author with the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, 1750 (the discussion of a prize question, crowned by the Academy of Dijon), which he describes as entirely pernicious, and the Discourse on the Origin and the Bases of the Inequality among Men, 1753.

I have been forwarded from pillar to post like a prize fowl, and reached Petersburg last night.

Occasionally one comes across specimens having a black-and-tan colour, which, although not mentioned in the recognised standard as being debarred, do not as a rule figure in the prize list.

They're prize rams and bulls.

130 Words to use with  prizes