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Examples
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Arnie rose, his battered pugilist's face splitting into a smile, though his eyes, as usual, said nothing.
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So, it seems fitting that the 61-year-old rhetorical pugilist's new book is his memoir, "Hitch-22."
'Hitch-22': 6 Juicy Celebrity Bites From Christopher Hitchens's New Memoir (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010
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Bardem, 34, is handsome in a rough-hewn way, with a pugilist's nose and omnipresent cigarette.
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Chouket, in his thirties and with a pugilist's build, walked in wearing a charcoal-gray suit, his eyes dark and fierce, his black hair cropped to a V in the middle of his brow.
The Faisal Factor 2004
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Chouket, in his thirties and with a pugilist's build, walked in wearing a charcoal-gray suit, his eyes dark and fierce, his black hair cropped to a V in the middle of his brow.
The Faisal Factor 2004
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He had a pugilist's face: strong square stubborn jaw, a nose that had been slightly flattened by someone's fist a long time ago.
Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993
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His swarthy face did not give an outward impression of trustworthiness and his flattened pugilist's nose advertised a history of brawling.
Vagabond of Space Ernsting, Walter 1976
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If a small boy is confronted by a trained pugilist of great weight and gigantic stature, surely none can blame the boy for consenting to the pugilist's demands.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards
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When he swung it back the muscles of his shoulder and upper arm flexed like a pugilist's!
Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster
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On that basis a company of gladiators or a pugilist's club ranks below a village improvement society; that in turn yields in importance to a learned association of physicians discussing the best means of relieving human suffering.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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