pommel
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Conrad leans in confidentially: “I have been asked if that’s really Dave doing the pommel horse, and my answer is, ‘I don’t know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
McClenaghan, who triumphed on the pommel horse in Paris, said it was "a huge honour".
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Nedoroscik brought his pommel horse skills to Thursday’s announcement, balancing on his hands on a mat as he swung his legs around his body — in dress pants, no less.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
Team USA's Stephen Nedoroscik was waiting for his pommel horse routine, glasses on and in the zone.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
They rode all night, with Tyrion sleeping fitfully, dozing against the pommel and waking suddenly.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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In the team finals however, a nightmarish set on pommels sent the Americans tumbling to fifth.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Hilts and pommels were and are the most common decoration, for dragonglass is too brittle to make a useful crossguard.
From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017
The 1996 Olympic pommel horse champion Donghua Li performed a surprisingly moving routine to pommels attached to the balance beam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2016
The 7th Century hoard of 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses was valued at £3.285m.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2015
They hand their burdens to others while they mount, then take the sacks again and loop them over the pommels of their saddles.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then, indeed, they separated, thoroughly pommeled and frightened.
From Peter the Priest by Mór Jókai
Bud and Mel had the advantage of surprise, and soon pommeled and grappled their foes into submission.
From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey
The workmen, seeing the reinforcements, beat a retreat, carrying their sadly pommeled comrades with them, but their insulting language was not restricted until they had passed out of hearing.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Every man endeavoured to be the first in making his exit, the door and passage were blocked up; each individual was pommelled by the person that happened to be behind him.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Eustace instantly let go, and Peter stood for a second staring down at the two red rings round his wrists, then, as Eustace turned unconcernedly away, dashed at his back and pommelled it.
From Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
The saddles for women differ in form, being furnished with the antlers of a deer, so as to resemble the high pommelled saddle of the Mexican ladies.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere
A bag of sand, equal in weight to his adversary, was daily pommelled by the champion of America until he could make it swing and recoil satisfactorily.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
The Loco-Focos, thus hemmed in between two fires, were gloriously pommelled for about five minutes.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
Old friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“In my castle,” says Joinville, “whosoever uses bad language receives a good pommeling, and this has nearly put down that bad habit.”
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
He caught the subway with the crowd of stockbrokers who came romping out of the stock exchange like released schoolboys after the day's tension, pommeling and shoving each other with released glee.
From Making Money by Owen Johnson
Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
"A generous fellow plays for the play, a sordid one for the stake; an old fogy sits by and smokes the pipe of tranquillity, while Jack and Tom are pommeling each other in the ring."
From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
They shook Roy into consciousness with joyous riot, pommelling him with affectionate roughness till he rose and joined with them stiffly.
From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Dick was stunned for a moment, and lay quite still, so the deer left off pommelling him, and stood looking at him.
From The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Why," said Phil, "I couldn't believe my eyes at first; but true it was, all the same,—there was our gentle 'rosebud' pommelling away at a fellow nearly twice his size!
From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton
Upon recovering from the effects of my pommelling, I sprang from bed and donned my clothes with all speed, and then went to pay my friend Mr Wilson the compliments of the season.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Presently they reached a point from which the cistern-keeper was visible, seated, as usual, just within the door pommelling the pavement.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
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