Wonders of Bodily Strength and Skill, in All Ages and All CountriesScribner, 1870 - 338 Seiten |
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... FIGHTING 18. ANOTHER SCENE 19. A PUGILIST 20. THE STATUE OF THE QUOIT - THROWER 21. THROWING THE STONE IN APPENZELL 22. A " FISTIC ENCOUNTER " 23. THROWING THE HAMMER IN SCOTLAND - 24. TOPHAM'S GREAT FEAT · 25. VENETIAN GAMES IN THE ...
... FIGHTING 18. ANOTHER SCENE 19. A PUGILIST 20. THE STATUE OF THE QUOIT - THROWER 21. THROWING THE STONE IN APPENZELL 22. A " FISTIC ENCOUNTER " 23. THROWING THE HAMMER IN SCOTLAND - 24. TOPHAM'S GREAT FEAT · 25. VENETIAN GAMES IN THE ...
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... FIGHTING WHILE SWIMMING 53. SKATING RACES IN HOLLAND · 54. BATTLE ON STILTS AT NAMUR 55. THE SLING IN ACTION 56. SHOOTING WITH THE BOW AMONGST THE ANCIENTS 57. ARCHER BENDING HIS Bow 58. THE CABÔCLOS OF BRAZIL SHOOTING · 59. AN ENGLISH ...
... FIGHTING WHILE SWIMMING 53. SKATING RACES IN HOLLAND · 54. BATTLE ON STILTS AT NAMUR 55. THE SLING IN ACTION 56. SHOOTING WITH THE BOW AMONGST THE ANCIENTS 57. ARCHER BENDING HIS Bow 58. THE CABÔCLOS OF BRAZIL SHOOTING · 59. AN ENGLISH ...
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... fight naked before the people . His exploits in the ring are , however , not credible ; and though the pedestal of his statue bore the inscription , " Commodus , conqueror of a thousand gladiators , " it is to be feared that they were ...
... fight naked before the people . His exploits in the ring are , however , not credible ; and though the pedestal of his statue bore the inscription , " Commodus , conqueror of a thousand gladiators , " it is to be feared that they were ...
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... who , according to Pausanias , never fatigued himself by fighting body to body , but contented himself by squeezing and twisting the fingers of. 24 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL . CONTEST WITH THE ENDS OF THE FINGERS.
... who , according to Pausanias , never fatigued himself by fighting body to body , but contented himself by squeezing and twisting the fingers of. 24 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL . CONTEST WITH THE ENDS OF THE FINGERS.
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... fighting - does not appear to form part of these Helvetic games . Among the Greeks it was simply wrestling developed to its utmost perfection , and carried out in the fiercest and most uncompromising manner . The athletes who devoted ...
... fighting - does not appear to form part of these Helvetic games . Among the Greeks it was simply wrestling developed to its utmost perfection , and carried out in the fiercest and most uncompromising manner . The athletes who devoted ...
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Seite 276 - So saying, he again bent his bow, but on the present occasion looked with attention to his weapon, and changed the string, which he thought was no longer truly round, having been a little frayed by the two former shots. He then took his aim with some deliberation, and the multitude awaited the event in breathless silence. The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill : his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed. A jubilee of acclamations followed ; and even Prince John, in admiration...
Seite 306 - I have a sonne is seven yere olde, He is to me full deare; I wyll hym tye to a stake, All shall se that be here ; "And lay an apple upon hys head, And go syxe score paces hym fro, And I myselfe, with a brode arow, Shall cleve the apple in two.
Seite 227 - stryding as wide as they may, doe slide swiftly," this then is sliding ; but he proceeds to tell us, that " some tye bones to their feete, and under their heeles, and shoving themselves by a little picked staffe doe slide as swiftly as a birde flyeth in the air, or an arrow out of a crossebow...
Seite 272 - The former target was now removed, and a fresh one of the same size placed in its room. Hubert, who, as victor in the first trial of skill, had the right to shoot first, took his aim with great deliberation, long measuring the distance with his eye, while he held in his hand his bended bow, >with the arrow placed on the string.
Seite 275 - A child of seven years old," he said, " might hit yonder target with a headless shaft ; but," added he, walking deliberately to the other end of the lists, and sticking the willow wand upright in the ground, "he that hits that rod at five-score yards, I call him an archer fit to bear hoth bow and quiver before a king, an it were the stout King Richard himself.
Seite 306 - That I have promised," said William, " That I will never forsake." And there even before the king In the earth he drove a stake : And bound thereto his eldest son, And bad him stand still thereat ; And turned the child's face him fro, Because he should not start.
Seite 306 - Now haste the, then sayd the kyng, By hym that dyed on a tre, But yf thou do not, as thou hest sayde, Hanged shalt thou be. And thou touche his head or gowne, In syght that men may se, By all the sayntes that be in heaven, I shall hange you all thre.
Seite 275 - Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target so broad as had hitherto been used, was to put shame upon his skill. "For his own part...
Seite 310 - The uniform of the company is tartan, lined with white and trimmed with green and white fringes ; a white sash with green tassels, and a blue bonnet with St.
Seite 227 - When the great fen, or moor, which watereth the walls of the city on the north side, is frozen, many young men play upon the ice; some, striding as wide as they may, do slide swiftly...