The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games, and PastimesJohn George Wood Frederick Warne and Company, 1891 - 816 sider |
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Side 138
... bird - shooting , and other aggressive purposes , is infinitely preferable on many accounts , as being more handy , more easily concealed about the person , and infinitely more deadly as a weapon . A great deal of amusement , however ...
... bird - shooting , and other aggressive purposes , is infinitely preferable on many accounts , as being more handy , more easily concealed about the person , and infinitely more deadly as a weapon . A great deal of amusement , however ...
Side 193
... birds , beasts , fishes , and nondescripts which may be produced , with the simple aid of a candle , by one pair of skilful hands . A finger properly applied to the nose may change the most uncompromising of " snubs " into the most ...
... birds , beasts , fishes , and nondescripts which may be produced , with the simple aid of a candle , by one pair of skilful hands . A finger properly applied to the nose may change the most uncompromising of " snubs " into the most ...
Side 205
... Birds of a feather flock together " there are three dangerous words - birds , feather , and flock - all difficult to get into an ordinary sentence , and it requires much dexterity to keep them from being too prominent . Let us take this ...
... Birds of a feather flock together " there are three dangerous words - birds , feather , and flock - all difficult to get into an ordinary sentence , and it requires much dexterity to keep them from being too prominent . Let us take this ...
Side 214
... birds ' nests . Student . Birds ' nests ! There are none there . Voice . Dick says there be . Student . Come down ! Voice . I shan't . Student ( stirring the fire ) . I'll make you show yourself . Voice . I say , don't ; it's so hot ...
... birds ' nests . Student . Birds ' nests ! There are none there . Voice . Dick says there be . Student . Come down ! Voice . I shan't . Student ( stirring the fire ) . I'll make you show yourself . Voice . I say , don't ; it's so hot ...
Side 236
... birds is covered with a piece of cloth , with a slit in the top . The operator , taking up the hat , puts his hands through the slit , and takes out the birds , one by one , till all are free . The hat is then placed on the table , for ...
... birds is covered with a piece of cloth , with a slit in the top . The operator , taking up the hat , puts his hands through the slit , and takes out the birds , one by one , till all are free . The hat is then placed on the table , for ...
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Side 625 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Side 61 - ... the right and left courts. On each side of the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it, and parallel with it, are drawn the service lines.
Side 766 - Italian player oi some eminence. Walker says this may be classed as the most brilliant and critical opening known, and recommends the student to play it at every opportunity ; he also throws out the warning that an incorrect move may irrecoverably lose the game. The defence is most difficult to discover in actual play.
Side 48 - In all match games, lines connecting the liome and first bases, and the home and third bases, and also the lines of the striker's and pitcher's positions, shall be marked by the use of chalk or other suitable material, so as to be distinctly seen by the umpire. The...
Side 765 - WHITE. BLACK. 1. P. tO K. 4. i. P. tO K. 4. 2. P. to KB 4. 2. P. takes P. 3. K. Kt. to B. 3- 3- P. to K. Kt. 4. 4. KB to QB 4. 4. K. Kt. P. advances.
Side 7 - 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.
Side 650 - I can take it into another room and there fire spirits of wine with it. If while it is electrifying I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in my hand, to the nail, I receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders.
Side 66 - ... decide similarly for the second game. The partner of the player who served in the first game shall serve in the third; the partner of the player who served in the second game shall serve in the fourth, and so on in the same order in all the subsequent games of a set.
Side 5 - 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.