BOAT-RACE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Boat-race

"Boat-race" Quotes from Famous Books

... time, however, he was still too close to his college days—he was separated from them only by about two weeks when he joined me—to appreciate what I endeavored to instil into him, that while winning a boat-race was all very well, to take part in a victorious fight, in a real battle, was a good deal better. Sport is a fine thing as a pastime, and indeed it is more than a mere pastime; but it is a very poor business if it is permitted to become the one ...

— African and European Addresses • Theodore Roosevelt

... Islander—a mere catalogue of the names is a romance. Here are pace and high adventure; the tang of the East; fusion of blood and race and creed. A degenerate dross it is, but, do you know, I cannot say that I don't prefer it to the well-spun gold that is flung from the Empire on boat-race nights. Place these fellows against our blunt backgrounds, under the awful mystery of the City's night, and they present the finest spectacle that ...

— Nights in London • Thomas Burke

... said Parson. "It's some bosh about that boat-race affair. Some of the chaps think you are mixed up in it, but of course it's all a cram. I've told them so ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... towards an offer of three thousand nine hundred when they came down out of the pines into the path along the edge of the herbaceous border. And then Mr. Brumley became aware of an effect away between the white-stemmed trees towards the house as if the Cambridge boat-race crew was indulging in a vigorous scrimmage. Drawing nearer this resolved itself into the fluent contours of Lady Beach-Mandarin, dressed in sky-blue and with a black summer straw hat larger than ever and ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... seaman, waiting his turn in the corner, hereupon asked how he managed when it came to the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race. ...

— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch

Words linked to "Boat-race" : run, race, boat