bear-fight

Otherwise, the bear-fight was of course an exciting scene to see visualized and lives up, I think, to everything it is in the book.

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Conversation shifted from the future of Mr. Clark to the past of Mr. Tucker; the widow's curiosity as to the extent of the latter's worldly success remaining unanswered by reason of Mr. Tucker's sudden remembrance of a bear-fight.

Short Cruises 1903

Conversation shifted from the future of Mr. Clark to the past of Mr. Tucker; the widow's curiosity as to the extent of the latter's worldly success remaining unanswered by reason of Mr. Tucker's sudden remembrance of a bear-fight.

Short Cruises 1903

In the flesh of those who had missed the sport, the bear-fight was as a rankling thorn.

The Thrall of Leif the Lucky 1893

Jeff was never known to lie extravagantly about a bear-fight, and when he told how he pumped sixteen forty-four calibre bullets smack into the

Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

When a full account of our adventures had been given, with a minute and special description of the bear-fight, my wife related what she had done during our absence.

Swiss Family Robinson 1882

Christ Church in those days was infested with some rowdyism, and in one bear-fight an undergraduate was actually killed.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

The mammoth sycamore he had the best of reasons to remember, for just there, round and round its great hollow trunk, over and over its great gnarled roots, he had then fought the biggest bear-fight of all his hunting experience -- forever excepting the one wherein Grumbo had proved himself

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

He might be trapped, and that would save a struggle; but this mode was not to the liking either of Caspar or Ossaroo, and Fritz apparently voted for a bear-fight.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

[_He and PODBURY indulge in a subdued bear-fight up the stairs, after which they enter the Upper Hall in a state of preternatural solemnity.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 Various