These base insinuations led to frequent exchanges of taunts and uncomplimentary remarks; and, last of all, matters were brought to a climax by a stand-up fight between Tom Mason, Acton's predecessor as dux, and young Noaks.

The two Fifth Form boys were big, strong fellows, and for a moment it seemed as though a stand-up fight would ensue.

It was a fair stand-up fight on level ground, where downright manly courage was alone to decide the issue.

But this was hardly a stand-up fight.

It was not a fair, stand-up, knock-down English fight, but a Scotch tussle, in which either could strike, kick, bite or gouge.

A stand-up fight between will and willsuch a fight as occurs in, say, the Hippolytus of Euripides, or Racine's Andromaque, or Molière's Tartufe, or Ibsen's Pretenders, or Dumas's Françillon, or Sudermann's Heimat, or Sir Arthur Pinero's Gay Lord Quex, or Mr. Shaw's Candida, or Mr. Galsworthy's Strifesuch a stand-up fight, I say, is no doubt one of the intensest forms of drama.

Thor was not a "stand-up" fighter.

I am living by rule; I have gotand what greater pleasure?a good stand-up fight with an old enemy; and be sure I shall keep myself in condition for it.

Why couldn't people knock each other out in a stand-up fight like men in a ring, instead of strewing the open road with explosives?

Now don't make the fatal mistake of thinking that the fellow is an expert who jumps up on his engine and jerks the throttle open and yanks it around backward and forward, reversing with a snap, and makes it stand-up on its hind wheels.

Two or three nights in every week the gloves were brought out, either in the hall or fifth-form room; and every boy who was ever likely to fight at all, knew all his neighbors' prowess perfectly well, and could tell to a nicety what chance he would have in a stand-up fight with any other boy in the house.

To see 'im with his little white cuffs, and a stand-up collar, and a little black bow, and a little bowler-'at, was enough to make a cat laugh.

Captain Deadeye was a staid, wall-eyed veteran, with his coat of a regular Rodney cut, broad skirts, long waist, and stand-up collar, over which dangled either a queue, or marlinspike with a tuft of oakum at the end of itit would have puzzled old Nick to say which.

A happy recollection of Corp's famous one from the shoulder disposed at once of the man who had seized the pistol; with the other gentleman Tommy had a stand-up fight in which both of them took and gave, but when support arrived, one burglar was senseless on the floor and T. Sandys was sitting on the other.

A fair stand-up fight followed, the better marksmanship of the whites being offset, as so often before, by the superiority their foes showed in sheltering themselves.

It would be a stand-up picnic lunch for everyone to-day, and what was more, it was very likely to be picnic dinner; so Julie was ordered to put two chickens to roast and some potatoes to boilboth needed but little attention and would always be ready when we might need them.

If the case were delayed, and I still had nothing to present against the strong circumstantial evidence of the prosecutionif, in other words, delay should still leave us in our present positionwould there be any chance for me to escape by a fair, stand-up trial?" "Well, you see, Mr. Charlton, this is precisely a case in which we will not accept a pitched battle, if we can help it.

However, I grew up at length into stand-up collars and tail coats, and at the age of seventeen springs was adopted (on trial) by a maiden aunt of seven-and-forty autumns.

" "He must go back to Buston, among the Bustonians, or he and I will have a stand-up fight of it.

I rather like a stand-up fight.

It was with a thumping heart and nerves all a-tingle that I followed Abel Crone out of his front shop into a sort of office that he had at the back of ita little, dirty hole of a place, in which there was a ramshackle table, a chair or two, a stand-up desk, a cupboard, and a variety of odds and ends that he had picked up in his trade.

His principal counsel was Bissell, of Painesville, a man of great native force and talent, and who in a desperate stand-up fight, had no superior at that time in Northern Ohio.

It can't be a stand-up battle.

On Monday came the first stand-up rehearsal on the stage.

It is like a boxer taking off his jacket, with the intention of making a fair stand-up fight of it.