Here be the three great wrestlers from Cumberland, where wrestling is practised by every lad and man!
Here are the wrestlers who have beaten all in their own county, and who now seek to overcome other champions!
XVI-76] In Greece, during the heroic ages, an ox was the reward adjudged to the conquering wrestlers and pugilists; a horse was the prize of racing or the quoits.
There were but two moderate wrestlers in the parish, and those two were George Hawker and James Stockbridge.
The wrestlers squat around the ring and shiver, for the evening is cold, until called out by the master of ceremonies.
Down the street near my yadoya, within a boarded enclosure, a dozen wrestlers are giving an entertainment for a crowd of people who have paid two sen apiece entrance-fee.
The wrestlers of Japan form a distinct class or caste, separated from the ordinary society of the country by long custom, that prejudices them against marrying other than the daughter of one of their own profession.
The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
Clergymen have often been included among the best wrestlers of their time, especially in West Cumberland, though some who as young men were noted for their prowess in this direction gave up this sport when they took holy orders.
His tastes were so obviously in other directions that the plan had to be abandoned, and he developed into one of the finest wrestlers of his time.
For as wrestlers stoop that they may the easier give their adversaries a fall, so by censuring themselves they glide into praising others.
Nelson and I are like two wrestlers floundering on the mat.
They fought furiously, moving the while like two wrestlers trying for flying holds; time and again they fell with first one on top and then the other; their flesh suffered and they grew bloody.
The brave man clung by his feet to benches and posts, but the strength of the vampire was the greater; posts gave way, benches were heaved from their places, and the wrestlers at each moment neared the door.
As the wrestlers neared the opening, Grettir planted both his feet against the stone posts, holding Glamr by the middle.
We may have observed, that the reward proposed for the best wrestlers in the contest between the Londoners and the inhabitants of Westminster, as mentioned above, was a ram.
The inhabitants of Cornwall and Devon have, we are well assured, from time immemorial, been celebrated for their expertness in this pastime, and are universally said to be the best wrestlers in the kingdom.
And what did those two little wrestlers in the background mean?
Wrestlers wore nothing else, except worsted stockings, and in Devonshire shoes, soaked in bullock’s blood and baked at a fire, making them hard as iron.
Jordan was a redoubted kicker, and the bravest wrestlers shrank from challenging him.
The captain had served in the Punjab and knew that native wrestlers were not given to such practices.
It was well to have a fair excuse to tender a sahib who put Punjabi wrestlers on their backs.
The wrestlers were naked, anointed, and covered with sand, that they might take firm hold.
Next, in the northeast corner, was the conisterium, where sand was kept for sprinkling the wrestlers after they had been anointed for the struggle.
At the close of a series of the contests, which continue about three days, the favorite wrestlers go the round of their patrons in tint silk garments.
At the end of a day's performance, all the wrestlers in gorgeous aprons march to the arena as the umpire claps two blocks of hard wood, and go through a simple ceremony of stretching the arms in various directions formally.
The judges during all the confusion maintained their seats in great dignity, and smoked away with quiet unconcern while the wrestlers strove and kicked beside them.
The Apodyterion, or undressing room to the Conisterium, or small court in which was kept the yellow kind of sand sprinkled by the wrestlers over their bodies after being anointed with the aroma, or oil tempered with wax.
Aliterium, where the wrestlers anointed themselves with oil.
For the administration of public affairs has, like other things, its proper term, and statesmen as well as wrestlers will break down, when strength and youth fail.
While he was looking along the Embankment for her coming she had slipped down Norfolk Street and through the gardens, to where the wrestlers clutched at empty air.
And lovers meet here also, so it was quite in keeping that Paul Beecot should wait by the bronze statues of the Herculaneum wrestlers for the coming of Sylvia.
The wrestlerswere to catch their hold as best they could, but to observe fair principles of wrestling.
It was accepted, and after due preliminaries, the challengers came, accompanied by their prime young men, who were held in great repute as wrestlers and ball-players.
He invited the Vestal Virgins to see the (346) wrestlers perform, because, at Olympia, the priestesses of Ceres are allowed the privilege of witnessing that exhibition.
Immediately going to the gymnasium, he witnessed the exercise of the wrestlers with the greatest delight.
And if a pair of wrestlers happened to break the bounds, he would with his own hands drag them back into the centre of the circle.
It was the general belief, that, after the crowns he won by his performances on the stage, he would the next lustrum have taken his place among the wrestlers at the Olympic games.
A fine sand from the Nile, similar to puzzuclano, which was strewed on the stadium; the wrestlers also rolled in it, when their bodies were slippery with oil or perspiration.
According to an old tradition, an evil spirit once appeared in the form of a black dog, and since that time the wrestlers have never been able to meet on Midsummer Eve without being seriously injured in the sport.
After the fire was lit, parties of wrestlers contested for prizes specially provided for the festival.
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