A boxer; one skilled in the ar ofboxing also an inferior workman among chasers.
Also to overcome in a boxing match: witness those laconic lines written on the field of battle, by Humphreys to his patron.
The landlord of the Prince Regent public-house had a large room behind his premises, which, being moved by considerations of sport and profit in doubtful proportions, he devoted two nights a week to the uses of the Regent Boxing Club.
Neddy knew there was little more than half a minute's boxing left in him--perhaps not so much.
The difference between the effect of boxing and the effect of golf on the human system is that golf hurts more and the pain is more enduring, for it is psychological.
And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs.
From time to time Spike's boxing manner grew tense for a period of days.
It appeared in a moment that he meant boxing gloves; not gloves in which to play golf.
Cinema shows and regattas, boxing championships, and all the rest of it.
Scraps of home gossip exchanged between more intimate friends, and comments on the afternoon's boxing mingled with tag-ends of narratives from distant seas and far-off shores.
The Flagship was "At-Home" to the Fleet that afternoon on the occasion of the Junior Officers' Boxing Tournament which was being held onboard, and a lull in the proceedings had been the signal for a general move below in quest for tea.
Boxing was one of the earliest athletic games practised by the Greeks.
In Italy boxing seems to have been practised from early times by the people of Etruria.
There were footraces and a tug of war and boxing matches.
We hope to make our beef and bulk tell against them in boxing and rowing.
Boxing bears always strike for the head, and bite to seize the cheek of the opponent.
I can not recall a single instance of a real bear fight as the result of a wrestling or boxing match; and may all boys take note of this good example from the bear dens.
When the winter put a stop to my out-of-doors work, I became instructor in a gymnasium, and gave lessons in boxing and fencing.
We had almost reached Paddy, whose boxing efforts had told on his endurance, and I was just about to call to Jim and Harry, when suddenly there emerged from the darkness a herculean figure in brass buttons.
In the very center of the gymnasium he found that gentleman engaged in giving a preliminary boxing lesson to a spider-like new pupil, who was none other than Silas Trimmer.
You gave me a boxing lesson out there one afternoon and promised to give me more of them, but you never did.
But let us consider this further point: Is not he who can best strike a blow in a boxing match or in any kind of fighting best able to ward off a blow?
And yet rich men probably have a greater superiority in the science and practise of boxing than they have in military qualities.
I draw my two examples of this from the boxing world.
I never could make up my mind which made the fightingest reading in the San Francisco papers, the account of Friday's boxing contest or of Monday's meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
Boxing is rough play, but not too rough for a hearty young fellow.
But boxing you and I are too old for, I am afraid.
I will leave London on Christmas Eve, and you shall come down on Boxing Day.
It was in vain that I repeated the arguments of some of the parliamentary panegyrists of boxing and bull-baiting; and asserted, that these diversions render a people hardy and courageous.
At the appointed time the combatants appeared upon the stage; the whole boxing corps and the gentlemen amateurs crowded to behold the spectacle.
It did not occur to me, that it was beneath the dignity of a British nobleman to learn the vulgar terms of the boxing trade.
The weighing-in at the Public Schools' Boxing Competition is something in the nature of a religious ceremony, but even religious ceremonies come to an end, and after a quarter of an hour or so Tony was weighed in the balance and found correct.
Boxing takes it out of you more than footer or a race.
You get the best boxingin the light-weights, though the feathers spar quicker.
Jim, however, had never taken to the art of boxing very kindly, but, by way of compensation, Allen had skill enough for two.
Will all those who are entering for the boxingget ready for the weighing-in, please?
I learnedboxing for over two years from some of the best light-weight fighters in London.
The latter also snatched his knife from his girdle, shifted it into his left hand, and threw himself into the usual boxing attitude with his left foot forward.
I have learned boxing from the best masters in England, I have practised daily for two years and a half, and I have gained a quickness that could not be imitated by one who has not had such teaching and practice.
Boxing is a branch of my education which has not been neglected, and I fancy that Mr. Condor will not find that he has it all his own way.
The Boxing Tournament had lasted for a week and had been a huge success.
Presumably the fiction of a "friendly boxing contest" was to be stoutly maintained.
On two sides of the roped ring, with its padded posts, sat the judges, boxing Captains both, who had won distinction at Aldershot and in many a local tournament.
Keep silence or I shall stop the fight--I mean--the friendly boxing contest.
Indeed, if the object of boxing be to use all means of offence and defence, the savate is indispensable.
It is not easy to teach any branch of the science of arms in a book, and boxing is perhaps as difficult to be learned from books as fencing.
If you stand opposite a good sparrer in boxing attitude, you will be surprised to find how well guarded he is, and how difficult it is to hit him, even if he neither moves nor attempts to return the blow.
Teddy, the cub, was standing with his back to the hole of a giant tree inviting the dog to a boxing match.
Boxing was one of the accomplishments taught him by the boys, and he took great pride in it.
Standing upon his hind legs, he extended his paws in a boxing attitude and pranced about, as he had been taught to do, in all the attitudes of the prize ring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boxing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bout; boxing; checkers; chess; fighting; game; infighting; package; packing; ring; spar; sport
