The modern world is full of artillery; and we turn out our children to do battle in it, equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator.

The other's beauty was of another sort; young, slender, pensive, spiritual, he looked like anything rather than a gladiator, and held his downward pointed sword with a negligent grasp.

Do you take us for madmen?" "All Rome is mad tonight," said the centurion, "or I wouldn't be arguing with a gladiator!

As gladiator his philosophy was mixed of fatalism, cynical irreverence, a semi-military instinct of obedience, short-sightedness and self-will.

" Marcia seized the gladiator by the shoulders, scanned his face, saw what she looked for and bargained for it instantly.

"Death means little to a gladiator," he remarked.

"It is better that a gladiator did it," remarked Pertinax, attempting to look calm.

The gladiator of flesh attacking the beast of brass.

When, for instance, Marius was summoned to a duel by a Teutonic chief, he returned answer to the effect that, if the chief were tired of his life, he might go and hang himself; at the same time he offered him a veteran gladiator for a round or two.

[In the course of them an elephant vanquished a rhinoceros and a knight distinguished for his wealth fought as a gladiator.]

I believe sometimes you'd turn a red light on the dying gladiator.

"And there were also my good ancestors, who tore Italy to pieces, joined hands with German Emperors, upset Popes, seized everything they could lay hands upon, and turned the country into a sort of perpetual gladiator's show.

The epic is closely and strongly framed, like the gladiator about to strike a blow: the novel is relaxed and at careless ease, like the club-man after lighting his pipe.

Of Thessalian extraction, and gentle nurture, Nydia had been stolen and sold into the slavery of an ex-gladiator named Burbo, a relative of the false priest Calenus.

It occasionally happened that one gladiator might be wounded, and lie helpless on the sand, The spectators would then shout to the victorious fighter to take his knife and finish what he had begun.

Partly excitement, partly the impulse of honour or of shame, partly the habituation which steels the endurance of the gladiator.

Like a gladiator it accepts a comfortable living for a certain time, on condition of its providing at last a spirited exhibition of dying.

but how does your image of the protected gladiator reflect on those who protect him?

The gladiator, as you say, is willing to take his chances in exchange for fat living and idleness, as long as he lives.

For that means the same thing they meant in Rome when they turned their thumbs doon toward a gladiator.

"A new Gladiator has appeared lately on the scene, one Ronedie Breton, arrived from England.

The statue of the Gladiator is a beautiful example of this law of opposition.

The old gladiator groaned, stirred, and came out of what must have been dreams of hunting meat.

with a gladiator's fortitude, loosens the shameful coil in which its last agonies have twisted it, fiercely erects its head once more, lashes defiantly with its tail, and thenclick!

Why not take him with you to-day?" Coronado gave another glance at the gladiator and meditated.