How To Use pugilism In A Sentence
- M. ERIC DYSON: I think that, you know, we're engaging in some rhetorical fisticuffs, so to speak, a kind of pugilism of the domestic sphere. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008
- The day's title baffles Americans — a celebration of pugilism, perhaps? Boxing Day: Tips and Ratings for our Canadian friends
- To the Respectable Citizen, the Moral Matron, and the Young Person, with a love of larkiness and lilt, but a distrust of politics, pugilism, and deep potations, the following eclectic adaptation of this prodigiously popular ballad may perhaps be not altogether unwelcome. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891
- And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
- It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now. Randal Cremer - Nobel Lecture
- It was clear the spirit of pugilism had left New Orleans.
- Across the Channel English boxing, or pugilism, had of course already been in existence for well over two centuries.
- The day's title baffles Americans-a celebration of pugilism, perhaps? Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
- The pugilism continued at Oxford, where he read military history and, while admiring the "tranquil beauty" of the High Street, noted that he felt a "savage satisfaction" in fighting. Drawn to Harsh Places
- No Epworth Leaguers or Christian Endeavorers whereased, resoluted or perorated until their tongues were worn to a frazzle, trying to "preserve the honor of our ger-rate and gal-orious State by suppressing feather-pillow pugilism. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
