swording

And into that space drifts stray bacteria and gunk that all my brushing, flossing and “swording” cannot penetrate.

Pain: Pt. 2 2008

X, Y & Zee - a campfest from the early 70s with Caine locking swording with Elizabeth Taylor in screaming harpie mode.

Replace 'eye' with 'hit' to rate the film Bullseye DAVID BISHOP 2008

Tom resolves in his heart to give Willum the remainder of his two shillings after the back-swording.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

The great times for back-swording came round once a year in each village; at the feast.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

But the object of most interest to Benjy, and of course to his pupil also, was the stage of rough planks some four feet high, which was being put up by the village carpenter for the back-swording and wrestling.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Elbow and collar wrestling, as practised in the western counties, was, next to back-swording, the way to fame for the youth of the Vale; and all the boys knew the rules of it, and were more or less expert.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

If good men are playing, the quickness of the returns is marvellous: you hear the rattle like that a boy makes drawing his stick along palings, only heavier; and the closeness of the men in action to one another gives it a strange interest, and makes a spell at back-swording a very noble sight.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Back-swording and wrestling were the most serious holiday pursuits of the Vale — those by which men attained fame — and each village had its champion.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

He did not feel called toward clinching or choking, twisting, tripping, knifing, swording, or sandbagging.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Is swording then your dearest vice that you must urge it on a harmless gentle man, and my visitor?

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897