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Definition of Pugilists
1. pugilist [n] - See also: pugilist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pugilists
Literary usage of Pugilists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"NOBBING,subs, (pugilists').—I. The administration of blows on the head. 1825.
... NOBBLE, vert, (pugilists').—i. To strike on the head ; to stun. 2. ..."
2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"... pot-boys, horse-jockeys, money-lenders, pawnbrokers, punks, and pugilists."
From Camden Town he moved to a house opposite the White Lion at Paddington, ..."
3. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"The figures on its walls were all those of dancers, with dû- exception of a pair
of naked pugilists flanking the entrance. On the Avail to the right were ..."
4. Power and Health Through Progressive Exercise by George Elliot Flint (1905)
"II STRENGTH AND TRAINING OF pugilists A WORD about pugilists. ... But are pugilists,
as a class, very strong? I can unhesitatingly answer this question ..."
5. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"A Wonderful Book.—Striking Moral Results.—Men of Violence Reformed.—Crime and
Suicide Prevented.—Infidels, Gamblers, pugilists. ..."
6. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"... the two eristic pugilists, described by Plato with exuberant humour, who late
in life came forward as professors of disputation, and at the same time as ..."
7. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1861)
"On the Training of pugilists. By Dr. . (Lancet, May 9, 1860.) " By what means,"
asks the ... The answer may have its uses beyond the rearing of pugilists. ..."
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