The little bay of Glyndewi was not a bad place for a boat-race on a small scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

Ethelberta came indoors one day from the University boat-race, and sat down, without speaking, beside Picotee, as if lost in thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference

Ah, I remember, it is the day for our great boat-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Perhaps it was to cross-examine him as to the boat-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

A boat-race had been inaugurated upon the occasion on which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Tower] Reference

It was the Saturday before the boat-race, and the excitement of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

Up to this time the boat-race seemed to have been nearly forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

English life that we found ourselves by chance at a boat-race on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gypsies] Reference

No boat-race or regatta ever began at the time appointed for the start.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference

Willoughby reassembled after the eventful boat-race in a state of fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

"Now, I think," said Drake, "that our boat-race was the best fun of all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

"Did you see how cut up he got when something was said about the boat-race?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

Little did the speakers dream of the connection between the boat-race and young.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

One of the most fearful scenes Rosalie ever witnessed was on one boat-race day when.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference

From whence is it derived, and when was it first used in English to mean a boat-race?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

It must have been very like the boat-race Virgil describes in the fifth book of the Aeneid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference

Among these I observed the fellow who had so loudly challenged me to bet upon the boat-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

Shortly after the boat-race, being now nine years old, I went home to England to go to school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference

There are other lessons we learned from this same boat-race, to which we will refer at some other time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet] Reference

Her boat-race looked uncannily like the paint job on a 1973 Austin Allego during this morning's episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the North...] Reference

Five minutes later, he and his portmanteau were bowling towards the station, a day late for the boat-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master of the Shell] Reference

It came to pass through our famous boat-race, which you and I remember, and shall never forget as long as we live.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference

The Captain and Mr Clare, who were going with us, told Drake they thought that boat-race had proved too much for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

He could contemplate Euthymia from a distance, as he did on the day of the boat-race, without any nervous disturbance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference

Otherwise, I'd be straight down to rainy, cold Everton, sticking my nose up the big Jessie's boat-race in a heartbeat. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The inmates of the latter were clustered along the guards, and seemingly as much interested in the boat-race as the men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

It afterwards appeared that Drake had addressed the following note to Alfred Higginson on the day before the boat-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

Its very strange continuation was postponed until the Saturday after the boat-race, which must be reserved for another chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

You remember how Drake knocked Alfred from the footboard of his bed on the occasion of our night meeting to get up the boat-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

The great public event of the year is the Oxford and Cambridge sports, which in interest rank after the boat-race and cricket-match.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London] Reference

Probably no two boys in all Willoughby were more excited over the result of the famous boat-race than Parson and his dear friend Telson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

Of course, there are numerous small dramas being acted out as the book proceeds, but the main one concerns a boat-race between two of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

He had woke up from his torpor, and was altogether off his head, babbling about some boat-race on the Cam, and was inclined to be violent.    From Wordnik.com.  [She] Reference