Many and many a son of Conn the Hundred-Fighter In the red earth lies at rest; Many a blue eye of Clan Colman the turf covers, Many a swan-white breast.
From the way he waded into you, I should judge he was a prize fighter before becoming a cow-puncher.
My record in college would make a prize fighter turn green with envy.
But his jaws set as he felt the flesh of his legs quivering; he grinned the derisive grin of the fighter whose will and courage outlast his physical strength.
He was heavily armed, and the town gamblers knew him for a bad fighter when he was aroused.
He was a religious man, a pious man, the hottest fighter with the coolest judgment of any I have ever known; a great lover of one woman.
There had never been seen, said they, such a fighter before.
In the piece the fighter warns his friends not to bet on a certain fight.
You know I have a line in the play in which the prize-fighter warns his friends not to bet on him in a certain fight in October.
The great fighterhad deliberately carried his army into a position where he had no possibility of communication with any base of supplies in either direction.
But Hooker was by instinct a fighter at all times.
There was never a fighter who was not a nervous man; there was never a fighter who in a crisis was not suddenly calm.
Of course odds of five to one were too great for even the most courageous and skilful fighter to face.
Once his chin was tucked back against his breast his bucking chances were gone and he kept his nose as low as possible, like the trained fighter that he was.
He did not wish to directly accuse the gun-fighter of anything, for talk is easily traced to its source and the account of Shorty had filled the foreman with immense respect for the fighting qualities of Red Perris.
I'll stand my ground with any man, gun-fighter or not!
By playing carefully on this string might he not reduce even this care-free fighter to trembling love of life?
It seemed a miracle that this tigerishfighter should have been suddenly reduced to the helplessness of a child.
The old prize-fighter was well satisfied at this omen.
The first glimpse of this haunting evil that now crept upon the old prize-fighter was revealed to a woman; and on the occasion Mr. Shillabeer not only shocked her with a thought, but astonished her by a confession.
He was a sidesman now, and Mr. Merle held the old prize-fighter in high esteem as a valuable example to the young men.
Well on in 1917 sundry young pilots took the Porte Baby out for a joy-ride, and presently found themselves off the Belgian coast being attacked by a Hun land-machine and two fighter seaplanes.
Also the Hun had developed a fast monoplane fighter seaplane, with all its guns on the top line, and specially designed for fighting the flying-boats near the water.
Camel aeroplane, a single-seated fighter land-machine with great speed and climb.
He could be as hardheaded and intransigent a fighter for what he considered his rights and as ruthless in combating opposition as were Beethoven and Wagner in later generations.
He was all dash and enterprise--the hurricane fighterof Wall Street.
With proper training, a baby of such obvious muscular promise might be made the greatest fighter that ever stepped into the ring.
She had the wan dignity of a fighter who, from a post of easy vantage, has gone down into the arena.
I don't care whether the fighter is a murderer or a hero so long as he fights against odds.
He was himself again--the fighter on the vast field of suffering, the physician glorying in the greatest of all triumphs.
He was a fighter, and a sure-thing fighter to boot.
As the Champeen Booze-fighter of Arizona I am engaged in demonstratin' to all beholders my claim to that illustrious title.
I've been the greatest booze-fighter of Arizona for twenty years, but I've sworn off.
Pete had been a fighter himself when he first broke into the Geronimo jail and the confinement had not thinned his sporting blood.
They say the Apaches educated the whole United States army in the art of modern warfare and Boone Morgan as a frontier Indian fighter had been there to learn his part.
But times had changed with Geronimo's champion booze-fighter and in his later prepossessions he grappled with the mighty problem of wealth and its relation to the common man.
It was just after our Thursday nights, for instance, that we began what I might call our Whistler nights, and a more stimulating talker than Whistler never talked, a more stimulating fighter never fought.
Byron, in short, remained a fighter even in the midst of his self-indulgences; and for the fighter there is always hope.
The learned Judge looked at him for a considerable time, as though he had never seen a prize-fighter before, and was determined to make the most of him.
He would be against prize-fighting to a certainty, but how far he might be inclined to convict a prize-fighter was another matter.
Get somebody to write a scenario around a fighter busting into the drama and playing Shakespeare!
He ever behaved respectably after that, though I always doubted whether he was at heart a true and willing fighter in the Secession ranks, any more than his master.
The unanimity, I confess, was not such as I would have desired; but all agreed the youngster had pluck, and would soon make as good a fighter as any of them.
One thing, if one alone in life, the most ardent fighter should shrink from lifting sword against, a man's conscience.
In the end, even as Hurrell Froude, the youngest and most ardent fighter of them all, had drawn in his Evangelical and Whatelyan friend, so did Dormer insensibly win over the man for whom his affection had first set him on this track.
It had flowing gray whiskers and looked every inch a fighter as it stood on its hind legs ready for battle.
All turned their heads as the inanimate fighter showed signs of returning consciousness.
Hardly had I taken my seat when an ex-manager of an ex-champion prize fighter approached me with a proposition which reduced to its simplest terms meant that I become angel for a theatrical troupe.
They considered it in the light of a sacrilege for a prizefighter to desecrate the boards which a Kean and a Macready had trod.
Instead of dexterous fencing the fighting is done by downright slashing and cutting and usually ends when one or the other fighter has received a cut on the face.
Thus it was that the sturdy Scotch boy, full of the daring spirit of his Highland ancestors, became the great sea-fighter of a new country, and ultimately wrote his name in history as the Father of the American Navy.
The racking ride in the automobile, the injuries received at the hands of Edwards and his prize-fighter employe, the loss of sleep and the anxiety, added to the strain of the game, had sapped his youthful vitality.
The fighter strolled back to the barroom and resumed his stand at the end of the bar, eyeing the two ball players.
The blow the Swede had aimed at the fighter hit him upon the shoulder and slid over his head, and Jack, whirling, faced his new adversary.
Come back outen there," ordered the fighter angrily.
Kennedy's fist had caught the ex-fighter and cut his cheek open and blood spurted upon both as they fought, the frail partition swaying under their weight.
