pugilistically

Last night's event, as Business Day's headline pugilistically proclaimed, brought ` no knockout blow '.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

Governors did not see the matter in the light that the "Herald" did, and the pugilistically inclined manager was summarily expelled, the board refusing to settle the matter by accepting his resignation.

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

Suffice it that between them they brought the old Carmichael to his feet, his glasses flaming in the moonshine, his body thrown pugilistically backward, his jaw jutting like

Stingaree 1893

It is a proof to me of his self-control that he never strikes out pugilistically, right and left, when addressed as one of

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

Little would he have been deterred by the brawn of those great arms and the girth of that Herculean chest, if he had been quite sure that it was a proper thing to resent pugilistically so discourteous a monosyllable.

Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Little would he have been deterred by the brawn of those great arms and the girth of that Herculean chest, if he had been quite sure that it was a proper thing to resent pugilistically so discourteous a monosyllable.

Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The level of familiarity was such that there was no need to talk business, Still, Calgary Flames forward Tim Jackman has fond memories of his sessions with fellow NHLers John Scott and Derek Boogaard, then members of the Minnesota Wild - all of them part of a smallish, pugilistically inclined hockey fraternity.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SEAN GORDON 2011

The level of familiarity was such that there was no need to talk business, Still, Calgary Flames forward Tim Jackman has fond memories of his sessions with fellow NHLers John Scott and Derek Boogaard, then members of the Minnesota Wild - all of them part of a smallish, pugilistically inclined hockey fraternity.

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The level of familiarity was such that there was no need to talk business, Still, Calgary Flames forward Tim Jackman has fond memories of his sessions with fellow NHLers John Scott and Derek Boogaard, then members of the Minnesota Wild - all of them part of a smallish, pugilistically inclined hockey fraternity.

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In the barbarian state of societies, where physical force dominates, it is the most muscular and pugilistically and brutally and animally successful male who captures and possesses the largest number of females; and no doubt he would be justified in regarding any social change which gave to woman a larger freedom of choice, and which would so perhaps give to the less brutal but perhaps more intelligent male, whom the woman might select, an equal opportunity for the gratification of his sexual wishes and for the producing of offspring, as a serious loss.

Woman and Labour 2003