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  • Well, up until last night, just another good boxer swimming in obscurity in the pool of 168lb "Pugilists".

    Main Features 2009

  • Well, up until last night, just another good boxer swimming in obscurity in the pool of 168lb "Pugilists".

    Main Features 2009

  • These Grand Ole Pugilists know evil when they see it.

    Linda Hansen: John McCain, War Games And The Draft 2008

  • Secondly, the Philanthropists had not the good temper of the Pugilists, and used worse language.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

  • Philanthropists were uncommonly like the Pugilists.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

  • The principal products of Ireland are Potatoes, Pugilists, Patriots, [A]

    This Giddy Globe Oliver Herford 1899

  • Pugilists go through much training in preparation for the actual contest.

    How to Live a Holy Life Charles Ebert Orr 1897

  • Pugilists 'Clubs are good; so are all other class clubs; but so also are clubs like our own, which takes in all who are worthy.

    A House-Boat on the Styx John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • Professional Pugilists, and the last sect of which one might have expected such iconoclastic utterances is that which claims Calvin and

    The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Various 1885

  • Pugilists, naked to the waists, held their clinched fists in menacing attitudes.

    Revenge! Robert Barr 1881

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