Juno was willing to answer this. "The injuries, thank you, are the merest trifles--all that such a light-weight could inflict." And she shrugged her shoulders to indicate the futility of young John's pugilism.英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》
"I think," said Miss Abigail, without the faintest expression) on her countenance, "that a table-spoonful of hot-dro-" The Captain interrupted Miss Abigail peremptorily, directing her to make a shade out of cardboard and black silk to tie over my eye. Miss Abigail must have been possessed with the idea that I had taken up pugilism as a profession, for she turned out no fewer than six of these blinders.英文原著 · 《The Story of a Bad Boy》
"Hallo!" cried Flambeau in great surprise, as his clerical friend stumped straight up the broad steps. "I didn't know pugilism was your latest hobby. Are you going to see the fight?"英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
It is possible, that women, after countless ages, during which that smaller relative development in weight and muscularity which is incident to almost all females which suckle their young, and that lesser desire for pugilism inherent in almost all females who bear their young alive, rendered her lacking in the two qualities which made for individual dominance in her societies, may yet, in the future, discover that those changes in human conditions, which have done away with the primary necessity for muscular force and pugilistic arts, have also inverted her place in the scale of social values.英文原著 · 《Woman and Labour》
You don't usually traffic in tales of pugilism and cinema.美剧 · 《Billions》