boxing-night

[Illustration] For many years this play was acted on boxing-night, as

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

The strange noises, the confusion, the shouting and roaring, amid which all this is done, too, would put to shame the most turbulent sixpenny gallery that ever yelled through a boxing-night.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

The strange noises, the confusion, the shouting and roaring, amid which all this is done, too, would put to shame the most turbulent sixpenny gallery that ever yelled through a boxing-night.

Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 1841