Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Sparring, Feather, Light, Middle, and Heavy Weights; Wrestling, Collar and Elbow, and Graeco-Roman; Fencing, Foil, Single Stick, and Broad Sword...
...this time I caught sight of the "Varsity" again, as they swept down the river, helped on by the tide; and as, after shooting the bridge, the stroke quickened and the boat came swiftly towards the float, a voice at my elbow said, with a strong Scotch accent, "The lads is pulling a bit hard to-night," and the bluff old boat-builder smiled approval. "Let her run!" comes sharp and clear from the boat, the machine-like action stops, the boat glides up to the float, out come the oars, and eight hearty-looking fellows after them, - fellows full...
...said the old man, drawing up a chair and cosily seating himself at Renardy's elbow, while he produced a pamphlet from his little black valise, - "eh? Well, you never saw anything so valuable as this. Here's George Washington, the Father of his Country; there's his moral nature, very large - veneration, conscientiousness, could n't tell a lie, you know, when his father...
...behavior of some of the students at the Post-Office on Sundays has lately given rise to considerable annoyance; not patient enough to take their place in line and ask in their turn for their letters, they must needs elbow their way up to the front and get some friend to ask for them. The line is thus often kept motionless for two or three minutes, while one man is asking for the host of friends standing around. The matter seems scarcely worth calling attention to, since it is presumably the result of thoughtlessness, and not of a determination...
...swing; but his shoulders and arms are much the best. Jacobs's stroke lacks vigor, particularly on the catch. He drops his hands badly at the end of the recover, - a fault which leads to a serious trick of clipping, when rowing in the boat, - and sticks his right elbow out awkwardly. Schwartz's improvement is marked. Brigham has lost a week, from a slight sickness, and shows plainly the lack of coaching during that time. While Brigham has an admirable physique for an oarsman, he is awkward and a poor waterman, and needs more coaching than almost...