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  • The world of somnambulism, whose exalted and sensitive citizens are outraged by the knockouts of the prizering, and who annually not merely knock out, but kill, thousands of babies and children by means of child labor and adulterated food.

    The Somnambulists 2010

  • Staring backers with square hats stood round the roped prizering.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The world of somnambulism, whose exalted and sensitive citizens are outraged by the knockouts of the prizering, and who annually not merely knock out, but kill, thousands of babies and children by means of child labor and adulterated food.

    The Somnambulists 1910

  • Staring backers with square hats stood round the roped prizering.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Boxing’s nickname, “the sweet science of bruising,” was coined in Boxiana, a monthly journal about the London prizering begun in 1812.

    Anatomy of a Fight, Part Four: Before the Bell Rings: Peter Owen Nelson Nelson, Peter Owen 2008

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