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"Brawler" Quotes from Famous Books

... that hell-featured brawler? Is it Satan? No,'tis Waller. In what figure can a bard dress Jack the grandson of Sir Hardress? Honest keeper, drive him further, In his looks are hell and murther; See the scowling visage drop, Just as when he murdered T——p. Keeper, show me where to fix On the puppy pair of Dicks; ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... that," growled the brawler. "I ain't a-goin' for'ard for nobody. One man's as good ...

— Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... limb, a belligerent and an ill-conditioned breed. That one suggested that maybe he took this method of letting all and sundry know he felt no regret for having gunned the life out of a dangerous brawler; that perhaps thereby he sought to advertise his satisfaction at the outcome of that day's affair. But this latter theory was not to be credited. For so sensitive and so well-disposed a man as Dudley Stackpole to joy in his own deadly act, however ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... quarrel?" she said, regretfully. "Do you know, Master Wayland, I had thought better of you. Surely it is not your nature to be a brawler, and always seeking opportunity to show the strong hand! What has Captain de Croix done now to make you seek ...

— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish

... not see sparks of our fire in the tongues of the swearers and of the scolds, when seeking to get their husbands home? Was there not plenty of the unquenchable fire in the mouth of the drunkard, and in the eyes of the brawler? And could you not perceive something of the infernal cold in the lovingness of the spendthrift, and in your own civility to your customers, whilst any thing remained with them—in the drollery of the buffoons, in the praise of the envious and the backbiter, ...

— The Sleeping Bard - or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell • Ellis Wynne

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