Yet it could not have been much later when he and his opponent were standing and swaying as one, locked in an embrace of wrestlers.

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

If you do not reckon them, observe you will behave like children who at one time play as wrestlers, then as gladiators, then blow a trumpet, then act a tragedy, when they have seen and admired such things.

When you have considered all this, if you still choose, go to the contest: if you do not you will behave like children, who at one time play at wrestlers, another time as flute players, again as gladiators, then as trumpeters, then as tragic actors.

He embraces him and hugs him in his arms, and lifts him above ground, as wrestlers do, to throw him down again and fall upon him.

A Hindu boy was matched against a white one, a couple of wrestlers came next, and then two English sailors, with more spirit than skill, had a set-to which warmed the audience into enthusiasm and ended amid shouts, whistles, shrill cat-calls, and thunders of applause.

Extremum hunc Arethusa mihi concede laborem.[4460] I am resolved howsoever, velis, nolis, audacter stadium intrare, in the Olympics, with those Aeliensian wrestlers in Philostratus, boldly to show myself in this common stage, and in this tragicomedy of love, to act several parts, some satirically, some comically, some in a mixed tone, as the subject I have in hand gives occasion, and present scene shall require, or offer itself.

Twice we are thus "slushed" from head to foot, and made more slippery than the anointed wrestlers of the Greek games.

Of this vast building part is now a manufactory, and the hall of the wrestlers is a Carthusian church.

The two rocks, still streaming with the tempest of the day before, were like two wrestlers sweating from a recent struggle.

It cannot be doubted, but that there is as great Desire of Glory in a Ring of Wrestlers or Cudgel-Players, as in any other more refined Competition for Superiority.

When he went to bed he bridged there until the best of wrestlers, sleep, had downed him.

These loves, viz., of one man to another, and of one woman to another, do not enter deeply into the bosom, but remain without, and only touch each other; thus they do not interiorly conjoin the two parties: wherefore also two men, by their mutual reasonings, sometimes engage in combat together like two wrestlers; and two women, by their mutual concupiscences, are at war with each other like two prize-fighters.

The Arioi, in its time of divertisement, was a lodge of strolling players, musicians, poets, dancers, wrestlers, pantomimists, and clowns, the merry men and women of the Pacific tropics.

Some were wrestlers, but boxing they left for others.

The wrestlers, as their Greek prototypes, first invoked the favor of the gods, and offered sacrifices when victorious.

He tried by all the tricks known to wrestlers to break away from the boy, or to hurl him to the floor, but Ned had skill as well as strength, and all such efforts proved unavailing.

On each side, as if to heighten its elegance by contrast with rude and unrefined nature, are the statues of the Wrestlers, and the slave listening to the conspiracy of Catiline, called also The Whetter.

Bang, whang, go the wrestlers below, with loud shouts and laughter.

Wrestlers entwined on mat.

Wrestlers entwined on mat.

It is now the turn of Kansa's wrestlers.

When other wrestlers strive to kill Krishna and Balarama, they also are dispatched.

Their airy limbs in sports they exercise, And on the green contend the wrestlers prize.

To satin races he is nought; But children on the Don Beneath his tabernacles play, And Dnieper wrestlers run.