Games and Sports: Being an Appendix to Manly Exercises and Exercises for Ladies, Containing the Various In-door Games and Sports, the Out-of-door Games and Sports, Those of the Seasons, &cT. Hurst, 1837 - 388 sider |
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Side xxi
... - doors , it is strange that so few in - door games should exist . The writer has , therefore , introduced here a dozen of the best of the continental games of that description . B BLIND MAN'S BUFF . ( Exercising Touch , & c I.
... - doors , it is strange that so few in - door games should exist . The writer has , therefore , introduced here a dozen of the best of the continental games of that description . B BLIND MAN'S BUFF . ( Exercising Touch , & c I.
Side xxii
... Touch , & c . ) PLATE I. In this well - known game , one of the party , having the eyes bandaged with a handkerchief , endeavours to catch one of the players and guess his name ; while all the rest , who occasionally buffet the person ...
... Touch , & c . ) PLATE I. In this well - known game , one of the party , having the eyes bandaged with a handkerchief , endeavours to catch one of the players and guess his name ; while all the rest , who occasionally buffet the person ...
Side 7
... touching the knees or sitting on the laps of the other players , is a rude and boisterous game , which presents nothing new , it is omitted . DUMB CRAMBO . ( Exercising Imitative Faculties . ) PLATE BUFF WITH THE WAND . 7.
... touching the knees or sitting on the laps of the other players , is a rude and boisterous game , which presents nothing new , it is omitted . DUMB CRAMBO . ( Exercising Imitative Faculties . ) PLATE BUFF WITH THE WAND . 7.
Side 40
... touch and sight , and that it makes us acquainted with the motion and impulse of bodies . But it is a fact that nearly every act of our lives exercises these senses and informs us respecting these accidents , in that which is of course ...
... touch and sight , and that it makes us acquainted with the motion and impulse of bodies . But it is a fact that nearly every act of our lives exercises these senses and informs us respecting these accidents , in that which is of course ...
Side 43
... but oc- casionally practised , these less social games , requiring but two persons , can easily , and are too frequently , made the business of life . BILLIARDS . ( Exercising Touch and Sight , and slightly REMARKS . 43.
... but oc- casionally practised , these less social games , requiring but two persons , can easily , and are too frequently , made the business of life . BILLIARDS . ( Exercising Touch and Sight , and slightly REMARKS . 43.
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Games and Sports: Being an Appendix to Manly Exercises and Exercises for ... Donald Walker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1837 |
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Side 315 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Side 228 - CREASE must be in a line with the stumps ; six feet eight inches in length ; the stumps in the centre ; with a return crease at each end towards the bowler at right angles. V. The POPPING CREASE must be four feet from the wicket, and parallel to it ; unlimited in length, but not shorter than the bowling crease.
Side 231 - Or, if with any part of his person he stop the ball, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker's wicket, and would have hit it.
Side 313 - ... blindfold draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Side 312 - ... children following it with great devotion. And thus being reared up, with handkerchiefs and flags...
Side 311 - ... painted with variable colours, with two or three hundred men, women and children following it with great devotion. And thus...
Side 317 - Harvest-Home; their last load of Corn they Crown with Flowers, having besides an Image richly dressed, by which, perhaps, they would signify Ceres, this they keep moving about, while Men and Women, Men and Maid Servants, riding through the Streets in the Cart, shout as loud as they can, till they arrive at the Barn.
Side 316 - Dee, close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint little city of Chester. I had already been carried back into former days by the antiquities of that venerable place ; the examination of which is equal to turning over the pages of a black letter volume, or gazing on the pictures in Froissart.
Side 227 - The BAT must not exceed four inches and one quarter in the widest part ; it must not be more than thirty-eight inches in length.
Side 235 - When there shall be more than four players on a side, there shall be no bounds. All hits, byes, and overthrows shall then be allowed.