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  • Two cats, with small boxing-gloves, were put on a table for a friendly bout.

    CHAPTER XXXII 2010

  • Not so long from that time Lo Lo brought two pairs of boxing-gloves and trained you boxing with him.

    I find Lo Lo, step-father of Barrack Obama in his book "Dreams fron My Father" 2009

  • Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • But, for the most part, the constant use of those surest keepers of the peace, the boxing-gloves, kept the School-house boys from fighting one another.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • 'Yeah,' he said and continued to wash his hands until they had all but disappeared into great white boxing-gloves of sudsy lather.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • My word, the excuses I had to think of to get out of kicking a football from morning to night - running for miles in shorts uphill and down - and putting on boxing-gloves and having sparring bouts.

    The Mystery of Banshee Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1961

  • Games impedimentahockey-sticks, boxing-gloves. a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside outlay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • An orderly stack of newspapers occupied one corner of the room, and a set of boxing-gloves lay on top of the pile, and a pair of dumb-bells beside it.

    Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • The very first man who helped me on with a pair of boxing-gloves was the mighty

    The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

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