At the back of the platform two of his staff, a nigger and a Hebrew, were sparring gently like kittens at play.
The nigger had stopped sparring and was grinning insolently at the crowd, among the younger women of which his strangeness exercised an attraction.
They began sparring slowly, Hegner making an effort to control his temper.
We've got you at last,' said Bill, sparring up at the Possum with the fiercest activity.
They circled, facing each other likesparring gamecocks of a giant variety.
In a sparring match all that happens is that a man with a watch in his hand cries out "Time!
This delusion was supported by the limitation of the sparring match to boxing.
On the other hand, I have seen a man knocked quite silly by a tap from the most luxurious sort of boxing glove made, wielded by a quite unathletic literary man sparring for the first time in his life.
The funny bone and the ten-seconds rule explain the development of Queensberry sparring into the modern knocking-out match or glove fight.
This development got its first impulse from the discovery by sparring competitors that the only way in which a boxer, however skilful, could make sure of a verdict in his favor, was by knocking his opponent out.
And the people who enjoy a fight will persuade themselves that boxing gloves do not hurt, and that sparring is an exercise which teaches self-control and exercises all the muscles in the body more efficiently than any other.
Captain Edgeworth Johnstone's treatise is noteworthy in comparison with the earlier Badminton handbook of sparring by Mr. E.
Now please tell the Prince that he positively cannot afford to miss a realsparring match.
Rose was already sparringwith Eddy as to when he would take her over to England for a season of hunting.
Had he been given time to get into sparring position the blow would not have moved him.
As they circled, each sparring for a chance to catch the other at a disadvantage, the dead trout lay gleaming and bleeding on the turf between them.
In another moment the two were once more circling and sparring for vantage as before.
Whether the sparring left any part of your chest unfilled or not, every air-cell is expanded now, while you cannot fail to be pleased with the thorough way in which this simple contrivance does its work.
If he hasn't, he's in a bad way, for his fancy sparring is just going to aggravate the other fellow so that he'll eat him up.
His eyes are just getting over being black from the sparring lessons, and now he has got to go through oysters and beef-steak cure again.
There was no sparring this time--they went at it biff, bang, right and left, sending in their blows with all the power of their muscular bodies.
I'm not sure that I shall be able to do much sparringwith you for a bit.
Through the mist he saw his opponentsparring up to him, and as he hit he side-stepped.
Then they set off amid the usual sparring between Jack and Paddy, a gentle sort of purring from the two little ladies, and sundry loud guffaws from the General.
Lawrence found it on the whole amusing, and was not above sparring with her.
Thomas knew that he was sparring for his life and he didn't intend to let the question get by if he could help it, so he tried another subterfuge.
Hammond grunted in acquiescence and Marvin went on, each question bringing his victim nearer to an outburst of temper, which he hoped would lead to the self-contradictions he wassparring for.
Witnessing a Marriage by Wire--Beating a Pool Room--Sparring at Long Range 87 XII.
As Chesterton summed it up, he felt as if Darrow had been arguing all afternoon with his fundamentalist aunt, and simply kept sparring with a dummy of his own mental making.
One morning when Billy went in there was a row, two Pigeons, a large and a small, alternately clinching and sparring all over the floor, feathers flying, dust and commotion everywhere.
One of his own Pigeons made momentary opposition to the stranger, and Arnaux, sparring sidewise with an open wing in Pigeon style, displayed the long array of printed records.
All that happened now was exhibition sparring bouts between members of the club.
You wait till you see me sparring with Steve to-morrow.
While Bailey was driving to the studio in his taxicab, Kirk, in boxing trunks and a sleeveless vest, was engaged on his daily sparring exercise with Steve Dingle.
This enabled the sailor lads to enjoy many a fine sparringmatch on the forward deck.
It had become an unwritten law on board, therefore, that the jackies were to be allowed to settle their difficulties with the gloves, sparring under a referee and with no brutality.
Back and forth the two boys hopped, smashing together, bounding apart, dancing about each other in circles, sparring for an opening as it were.
Here is what sparring used to be: "Sparring consists of playing single stick with bone poles instead of wooden ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sparring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
