boat-race

The climax is an act of self-immolation during the boat-race, and a storm signalled "by a loud and prolonged thunderclap."

A truly soggy boat race Tim Radford 2010

See the chaps in a boat-race; look at the fellers in a fight; aye, look at a dawg killing rats — which is it wins? the good-blooded ones.

Vanity Fair 2006

During the boat-race, a gentleman pulling in a canoe, and smoking a narghilly, had attracted no ordinary attention.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

During the boat-race, a gentleman pulling in a canoe, and smoking a narghilly, had attracted no ordinary attention.

Burlesques 2006

Ethelberta came indoors one day from the University boat-race, and sat down, without speaking, beside Picotee, as if lost in thought.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

There was another pause; then she blurted out: “We church girls always wear Trinity colours at the boat-race.”

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

Witness the mill on fire in 'The Cloister and the Hearth'; the lark in exile in 'Never too Late to Mend'; the boat-race in 'Hard Cash'; the scene of Kate Peyton at the firelit window, and Griffith in the snow, in 'Griffith Gaunt.'

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

His Majesty was conducted through the lagoons as far as the fortified gate of Mala-Mocca, and the gondoliers gave as he returned a boat-race and tournament on the water.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

The little bay of Glyndewi was not a bad place for a boat-race on a small scale.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

Sundays, to work outside the appointed hours, to talk to the day-boys, to cultivate social relationships with the masters, to be Cambridge in the boat-race, and in fine to hold any opinion or follow any pursuit that was not approved by the majority.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton