"Pig-sticking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these Schlaeger contests, they seem to me no more brutal than our own foot-ball, which is only brutal to the shivering crowd of the too tender who have never played it, and not so dangerous as polo or pig-sticking, and a thousand times better than no contest ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier
... alluvial soil, which produces vast agricultural wealth. The fields are divided by exceedingly thin live fences formed by a species of Euphorbia; the country being flat, it affords the perfection of ground for riding, therefore such sport as pig-sticking or coursing may be enjoyed to the fullest extent. During our visit the Guikwar had most kindly arranged every kind and style of sport, including a pack of hounds, half a dozen well-trained cheetahs ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... says youthfully, "always delightful." It is all, in these more strenuous times, most refreshing and even a little wistful in its naivete. The honest and brave gentlemen whose exploits it records are about another kind of pig-sticking now. One hopes that practice with the Indian variety may help them in their chase of the Uhlan road-hog. Here's ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various |
