Word: dumbness
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SPARRING.We remind any one who really means business in the coming Sparring contests in the Gymnasium that he will, especially if in the Heavy Weights, have to meet some tough customers, and the sooner he gives up smoking, and the quicker he takes to dumb-bells and regular running exercise, the more likely will he be to do himself justice, and make his work interesting to lookers...
With hopeless sorrow I am dumb...
...foot-ball ground, but during the winter "the thing" is to take no exercise at all. So the Gymnasium is left to men who do not know what a sin they are committing, and who appear to enjoy playing tenpins all the afternoon, or lifting a five-pound dumb-bell for hours together...
...remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words as are necessary, and the fair maiden must have felt that all this flowery "gush" was far inferior to the "dumb eloquence" that accompanied it. But the modern hero has the good taste to perceive that a display of rhetoric is not fitted to the moment, and that brevity must be the soul of his argument. It is on this one string that the novel-writers of to-day play their simple...
...Putting up dumb-bells...