Word: pit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...concerned in the affair are liable to prosecution for cruelty to animals, but they will probably escape the punishment they so richly deserve. They cannot, however, avoid the judgment of public opinion, which must refuse the title of gentlemen to persons who participate in the amusements of a cock-pit...
...tormented chums, who can see to it that their persecutors spend the most of their time there. It is to be hoped, also, that after the winter's discussions, the warm days of spring will not be allowed to pass without putting theory into practice, in a little pit in some shady spot known only to the initiated...