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Examples
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Regardless of his bulging muscles and prize-fighter's throat, he impressed me as an ingenuous boy.
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An 'it's yerself is the thrue Welse, for all yer prize-fighter's muscles an' yer philosopher's brains.
CHAPTER I 2010
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It was known, too, that if Morrissey survived, the Senator would profit by the prize-fighter's remarkable majority of nearly 4,000 over
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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Gee, your head feels as natural on my shoulder as a piece of pie on a prize-fighter's knife.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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A thick woman, a tall comb in the back of her high-piled black hair, and an immovable face with jaw muscled like a prize-fighter's, served them with cold chicken and ham and champagne in a room with mouldering greenish wall-paper lighted by a red-shaded lamp.
One Man's Initiation—1917 John Dos Passos 1933
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Old Brother Jerome's face is squashed flat like a prize-fighter's, but I bet he's never had the gloves on in his life.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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The "breaker of teeth" had two teeth of his own missing, and when his prize-fighter's jaw dropped down, the deficiency became conspicuous.
King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923
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Hodges, a short, squat man with a prize-fighter's throat, chest, and shoulders and a wide, thin-lipped mouth, leaned forward in dirty shirt-sleeves, chewing at a moist cigar-stump.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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He's got a prize-fighter's eye which is not exactly an ornament.
Charles Rex 1910
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Now Miki's paw, for a pup, was monstrously big, and his foreleg was long and lanky, so that when the paw landed squarely on the end of Neewa's nose it was like the swing of a prize-fighter's glove.
Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903
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