I must have looked in the glass to array myself as I did; but the mind's eye was the seeing eye, and it was filled with this frightful vision of the notorious pugilist known to fame and infamy as Barney Maguire.

So smoothly was it done that it was not until she emerged from the Witching Waves, guided by the pugilist 's slim but formidable right arm, that Maud realized that Arthur had gone.

Then came the pugilist ; then a lady with a head of hair like a bath sponge; then another, and the party was complete.

Invoking everlasting destruction on the frequently-blackened eyes of Crouch, he threatened instant withdrawal of his patronage and support unless the polite pugilist hit, then and there, as hard as he could.

It gave way, and in the instant that she entered her eye caught the scene--the Board standing about with open watches; Dempsey Donovan in his shirt sleeves dancing, light-footed, with the wary grace of the modern pugilist , within easy reach of his adversary; Terry O'Sullivan standing with arms folded and a murderous look in his dark eyes.

A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist ; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.

Then, while he was still skirting his subject, before he had wandered to what he really wished to say, the music stopped, the applause broke out again, and Lady Wetherby returned to the table like a pugilist seeking his corner at the end of a round.

It seemed monstrous to him that policemen and judges should esteem his word as nothing in comparison with the bartender's--poor Jurgis could not know that the owner of the saloon paid five dollars each week to the policeman alone for Sunday privileges and general favors-- nor that the pugilist bartender was one of the most trusted henchmen of the Democratic leader of the district, and had helped only a few months before to hustle out a record-breaking vote as a testimonial to the magistrate, who had been made the target of odious kid-gloved reformers.

Two or three masks strove to knock his moccoletto out of his hand; but Albert, a first-rate pugilist , sent them rolling in the street, one after the other, and continued his course towards the church of San Giacomo.

The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque sordidness and rottenness of manhate and man-meanness, until the name of O'Brien was mentioned--O'Brien, the promising young pugilist who had been killed in the prize-ring the night before.

He is the cleverest pugilist of his weight in the country.