Crossword-Solution: BRUISERS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Sometimes, when in the newspapers I happen upon descriptions of our modern bruisers and prizefighters, I wonder what chance the best of them would have had against him.

Dosta, we'll now go to the tents and put on the gloves; and I'll try to make you feel what a sweet thing it is to be alive, brother!' CHAPTER XXVI The flower of the grass--Days of pugilism--The rendezvous--Jews--Bruisers of England--Winter, spring--Well-earned bays--The fight--Huge black cloud--Frame of adamant--The storm--Dukkeripens--The barouche--The rain- gushes.

Let no one sneer at the bruisers of England--what were the gladiators of Rome, or the bull-fighters of Spain, in its palmiest days, compared to England's bruisers? Pity that ever corruption should have crept in amongst them--but of that I wish not to talk; let us still hope that a spark of the old religion, of which they were the priests, still lingers in the breasts of Englishmen.

There were also, as a class apart, the bruisers, which did not lacerate the flesh, but only crushed the bone.

Not noble, massive rocks, standing upright, keeping a certain regularity in their positions, and possessing, now and then, flat tops to sit upon, but little irritating, comfortless rocks, littered about anyhow, by Nature; treacherous, disheartening rocks of all sorts of small shapes and small sizes, bruisers of tender toes and trippers-up of wavering feet.