prize-fight

But the man in the prize-fight – no; he is not compelled.

The Madness of John Harned 2010

He joined them and listened attentively to the description of a prize-fight

Chapter 36 2010

Then there are the good, kind somnambulists who don't prize-fight, who don't play the commercial game, who don't teach and preach somnambulism, who don't do anything except live off of the dividends that are coined out of the wan, white fluid that runs in the veins of little children, out of mothers 'tears, the blood of strong men, and the groans and sighs of the old.

The Somnambulists 2010

But the man of the prize-fight – he is the brute, the human beast, the savage primitive, the maniac that receives many blows in his stupid face and rejoices.

The Madness of John Harned 2010

Bill Totts really wasn't able to see beyond the next meal and the prize-fight the following night at the Gaiety Athletic Club.

SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

One became the short prize-fight novel The Abysmal Brute (1913), another The Assassination Bureau, unfinished at London's death (published in 1963 with an ending provided by mystery writer Robert L. Fish).

“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

They were savage - they had seen their army and navy sail away with drums beating and fifes tootling, and "Rule Britannia" playing, and the press promising swift and condign punishment for the Muscovite tyrant, and street-corner orators raving about how British steel would strike oppression down, and they were like a crowd come to a prize-fight where the two pugs don't fight, but spar and weave and never come to grips.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

A medical student in need of money is recruited for a prize-fight after dealing handily with one of the trainers.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Conan Doyle Stories - Arthur Conan Doyle Blue Tyson 2007

Century published The Abysmal Brute, a prize-fight novella and his thirty-fourth book, in May, 1913, and while awaiting publication of John Barleycorn, London negotiated with George Brett to return to Macmillan.

Wolf House Burning: Page II 2004

If it had not continued he would have felt like an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals refused to mix it up.

This Side of Paradise 2003