boat-races

‘Do you mean to say that you have never heard of the University boat-races?’

The Duke's Children 2004

The Thames is reached at Maidenhead, where up-river society plays a part which reminds one of the stage melodramas, except that there is real water and real boat-races.

The Automobilist Abroad

I am told that the latter effect has of late, not unfrequently, been the result of over fatigue in _rowing_; that many young men have died at an early age; that others live on with all their powers debilitated, from having overstrained their nerves, and their whole muscular system, in boat-races.

Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew Edward Berens

Then the boat-races; fancy the Independents 'boat bumping the Particular

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

The popular merrymakings at this season included foot-races and boat-races; the Tiber was gay with flower-wreathed boats, in which young folk sat quaffing wine.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The popular merrymakings at this season included foot-races and boat-races; the Tiber was gay with flower-wreathed boats, in which young folk sat quaffing wine.

Chapter 14. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium 1922

Their conversation which followed was mostly of a reminiscent character -- recollections of boat-races in the bight, fishing excursions off the coast, clambakes, hew boats, a dog which Donald had given Nan when he left for prep school and which had since died of old age.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

I thought perhaps you'd give me luncheon, and take me to see the boat-races.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

Premiums for boat-races were instituted, which were contended for with great eagerness, and the respective crews kept their stations in the boats with as much precision as they kept their beds on board of the ship.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

And I thought perhaps you'd give me luncheon, and take me to see the boat-races.

Zuleika Dobson 1911