How To Use Pugilism In A Sentence
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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
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The day's title baffles Americans — a celebration of pugilism, perhaps?
Boxing Day: Tips and Ratings for our Canadian friends
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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
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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
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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
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It was clear the spirit of pugilism had left New Orleans.
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Across the Channel English boxing, or pugilism, had of course already been in existence for well over two centuries.
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The day's title baffles Americans-a celebration of pugilism, perhaps?
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
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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
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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
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In parting let me inject my own truculence and pugilism in this 1/2 punch: I cannot believe this is the conversation we are still having this far into our project and at this ridiculously low level at that.
Book Review: On Criticism by Noel Carroll
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He once played a competitive basketball match the day of a fight, and in conversations with reporters he much prefers to discuss his collection of fighting chickens than anything remotely concerned with pugilism of the human variety.
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The city would ultimately become the first in the country to attempt to truly legitimize pugilism by sanctioning it in 1890.
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the sweet science of pugilism
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Although he earned millions, Louis ended up nearly penniless and a walking argument against professional pugilism.
The Standard Bearer
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The pair will undergo intensive training for a month in secret gyms in the South East under the wings of some of British boxing's finest trainers - before coming together for three rounds of power-packed pugilism.
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I admire the old fashion according to which in English pugilism (which, however, I do not admire) the combatants shook hands before they fought; only I think much time ought not to be spent upon such salutations when there is other work to do. '
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
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The day's title baffles Americans—a celebration of pugilism, perhaps?
Boxing Day: Tips and Ratings for our Canadian friends
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And unlike mainstream pugilism, fighters can win by not only knocking out their opponent, but also by catching them in checkmate.
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After the Cotto contest, Margarito became one of the hottest prospects in professional pugilism.
With These Two, the Animosity Isn't an Act
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Public-houses were doing a brisk trade, not without pugilism for the entertainment of such as lounged about the doors.
Denzil Quarrier
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Those children who prefer pugilism to pampering will no doubt love the Kung Zhu Battle Arena, which seven-year-old Jayden Chamberlain was warring with this morning.
Monopoly Revolution predicted to be Christmas toy bestseller
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Hillary is a path breaker for future generations of women because she has broken the glass ceiling with her newfound politics of "pugilism".
Tom Hayden: Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler
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The writing is a kind of pugilism -- the strokes being made straight out from the shoulder.
Venetian Life
