What is "pugilistic"

Usage examples of "pugilistic".

Oliver resigned his pugilistic crown, and retired to the shades of private life.

Major Minim remained in the pugilistic comedy act with Ali Baba, though still grumbling and even, during the performance, trying really to pummel the boy.

The giant with the pugilistic appearance had undergone a series of striking changes.

Boundy might have pondered long on the pugilistic attitude of the semaphore but for an event that, while he was most intent upon it, aimed a sudden thrust at his bump and his theory all at the same time.

His smart new set-out made it an easy matter for him to attend a good many race meetings, and several pugilistic battles, held discreetly out of town, but at such accessible places as Moulsey Hurst, or Copthall Common.

But such escapes and escapades were minor compared with his flight at the age of eleven from Athelburn School, Hertfordshire, and the pugilistic Mr Piffer who had oddly picked him out as world-championship material and had instructed him to visit his room for early training.

Nothing afforded them more pleasure than to see me go through the attitude of pugilistic encounter.

The latter, without a word, made a rush for him, grasped him by the throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who immediately began to bet on him, administered to the detective a perfect volley of blows, which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill.

Christopher joined them during the holidays, except when his uncle invited him to stay in London, and indulged him with all manner of high treats, from snipe-shooting in Regent's Park, or skating on the Serpentine, to Astley's Amphitheatre, and pugilistic displays at the Fives Court.

When the prize fighter toured, Billy continued to hang around Hilmore's place, running errands and doing odd jobs, the while he picked up pugilistic lore, and absorbed the spirit of the game along with the rudiments and finer points of its science, almost unconsciously.