prize-ring

When a man strikes a foul blow in the prize-ring the fight is immediately stopped, he is declared the loser, and he is hissed by the audience as he leaves the ring.

The Somnambulists 2010

The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque sordidness and rottenness of manhate and man-meanness, until the name of O'Brien was mentioned – O'Brien, the promising young pugilist who had been killed in the prize-ring the night before.

The Night-Born 2010

He decries the carnal combat of the prize-ring, and compels the red animal to spiritual combat.

The Somnambulists 2010

They are the foul blows of the spirit that have never been disbarred, as the foul blows of the prize-ring have been disbarred.

The Somnambulists 2010

He could spar better than Knuckles, the private (who would have been a corporal but for his drunkenness, and who had been in the prize-ring); and was the best batter and bowler, out and out, of the regimental club.

Vanity Fair 2006

Ah, bon Dieu, what a pleasant companion he was, what a brilliant wit, what a rich fund of talk, what a grand manner! — and she had exchanged this for Major Loder, reeking of cigars and brandy-and-water, and Captain Rook with his horsejockey jokes and prize-ring slang, and their like.

Vanity Fair 2006

It had been a prize-ring, a vassal, of Anatolia, of Greece, of

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Compensation, so far as it goes, is found in the abandonment by those communities among whom it is most rife of certain gross amusements, such as cock-fighting and the prize-ring.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

They fought like fanatics, coming boldly and doggedly on, and going through all the preliminary attitudes and posturing of the Indian prize-ring.

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

German mind the war with Russia and France is, in prize-ring parlance, a twenty-round affair, which can and will be won on points, whereas with

New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various