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Rather than 'the easy demonstration of a brutal superiority', the boxer's violence turns into a 'painful and dangerous labour', and loses its character as 'a wild and liberating passion'.
As a transitive dynamic verb it animates movement, creating a visual image of blood dripping down in a tear-like manner while possibly mirroring the boxer's opponent's fall.
The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported.
The boxer, by himself alone devoured eighty cakes.
Last year the boxer fought/fights his last match.
I can tell you confidentially that a well-known boxer who owns a company has been stake-building.
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