Word: artful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course there is absolutely no means of judging of the relative powers of the ancients and the moderns in the "noble art of self-defence." That the ancients, especially the Greeks, did box, and that most savagely, we know. So far from using gloves to lessen the damaging effects of their blows, or even from using simply the power that nature and training had given to their bare fists, they increased this by tying strips of hard bulls hide round them when clinched, and sometimes even attached nails and lead buckles to these to make their blows more deadly. They...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...