74 examples of pugilist in sentences

Not even the arrival from Dawson of the Montana Kid, pugilist and gambler, could raise spirits so cast down, not even though he was said to bring strange news from outside.

A local ruffian, a patient of ours, by the way, matched against a pugilist over at Croxley.

The latter was a coarse wood-cut of a pugilist's head and neck set in a cross-barred jersey.

Those specially developed, gutta-percha-like abdominal muscles of the hardened pugilist will take without flinching a blow which would leave another man writhing on the ground.

It was the tone of a pugilist's backer.

was a locked pugilist with language!

This Notary manages his cause most weakly, and Sherlock 'fibs' him like a scientific pugilist.

The pugilist may be a poltroon, and the bookworm a hero.

The Romans executed all the soldiers and magistrates except the pugilist who had greatly aided the Byzantines and injured the Romans.

In 1806 Lord Camelford possessed one for which he had paid the very high price of eighty-four guineas, and which he presented to Belcher, the pugilist.

The other shook his shoulders back and stepped toward the horse with a peculiarly unpleasant smile, like a pugilist coming out of his corner toward an opponent of unknown prowess.

As Cribb, a noted pugilist of the last century, she floored an incautious spectator, giving him a black eye which he wore for a fortnight afterwards.

The horns of an ox or antelope are able to make an ugly wound in the paw or chest of a springing beast when he receives its thrust in the same way that an over-eager pugilist meets his adversary's "counter" hit.

R109377, 26Mar53, George S. Hellman (A) HEMON, LOUIS. Battling Malone, pugilist.

R105828, 9Jan53, Lydia Hemon (C) HEMON, LYDIA Battling Malone, pugilist.

R109377, 26Mar53, George S. Hellman (A) HEMON, LOUIS. Battling Malone, pugilist.

R105828, 9Jan53, Lydia Hemon (C) HEMON, LYDIA Battling Malone, pugilist.

He was large enough to have passed for a champion wrestler or a burly pugilist, and he was small enough to glory in the smallest details of his work.

" There was just the shade of a threat in the voice of this slender youngster, and Robert Macklin had been an amateur pugilist of much brawn and a good deal of boxing skill.

"Some ex-pugilist," he heard a man's voice saying, and he recognized it at once as belonging to him who had given the orders.

A turret out of action means two guns out of action; a broken knuckle for the pugilist.

Just as a pugilist will invite a blow to draw his opponent within range, Muztagh pretended to leave his great shoulder exposed.

" "Oh, don't be silly, Terriss," I said, "she's not a pugilist.

Among the men, (beardless folly and mustachioed craft are most prominent,) there is a handsome young fellow, with an elaborate cane and wonderfully vacant countenance, who is anticipating in feeble follies, an estate that has been in the possession of his ancestors since the reign of Henry the Eighththere is a hairy, high-nosed, broken-down nondescript, in appearance something between a horse-dealer and a pugilist.

Of course, being, as I said, ignorant of the language, I could not understand the matter of the improvisations; but as for the manner, just imagine a mad North American Indian, a howling and dancing Dervise, an excited Shaker, a violent case of fever-and-ague, a New York auctioneer, and a pugilist of the Tom Hyer school, all fused together, and you may form some faint idea of a Welsh bard in the agony of inspiration.

74 examples of  pugilist  in sentences