Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...events for next Saturday, March 18, ladies' day, are fencing, light and feather-weight sparring, standing high jump, two-hand vault, club swinging (legitimate), tug-of-war, '82 vs. '83, teams of four men, and the final bout in middle-weight sparring, postponed from last meeting...
...second fall. Time five minutes and forty-five seconds. After the usual wait time was called for the third round, and the men entered, both appearing anxious about the decisive struggle, and each determined to win. After a close struggle Crane won the third fall, and consequently the trial bout, in three minutes and twenty-two seconds...
...contestants for the first bout of the Middle-weight Sparring, Page, '83, and Cobb, '84, made their appearance at nine minutes past three. Mr. Wendell read the rules governing the match, and time was called. A large number of effective blows were exchanged and the men seemed to be evenly matched. Page won the first bout. In the second bout, between Biddle, '84, and Lee, '83, considerable science was shown by both men, and a good deal of hard hitting was indulged in. In consequence of a disagreement among the judges, in regard to the winner of this bout...
...think that's real nice, 'bout 'thy fair fresh face the darksome forest,' don't you? Me and Bang was singing it when you called...
...calc'late ye kin beat 'bout everything 'round here, don't ye?" spoke up the grocer's man in a congratulatory tone of voice, which instantly decided me to purchase, from that time on, all the necessaries of life from his assortment...