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 119
... head and features may be got up with any amount of elaboration con- sistent with solidity and strength : all really fine work is simply thrown away , and is , indeed , out of place ; if not , flatten and smooth over one side for a face ...
... head and features may be got up with any amount of elaboration con- sistent with solidity and strength : all really fine work is simply thrown away , and is , indeed , out of place ; if not , flatten and smooth over one side for a face ...
Side 125
... head foremost , on the back , kneeling , and the like . Some of the bolder and more adventurous spirits will now and then attempt some such feat as making the course standing , or even go so far as to try to make it on their heads ; but ...
... head foremost , on the back , kneeling , and the like . Some of the bolder and more adventurous spirits will now and then attempt some such feat as making the course standing , or even go so far as to try to make it on their heads ; but ...
Side 160
... head . But it certainly will not spin . If you want to make it spin , you must hold your hand high - we always used to hold it above the head and at its full stretch -and then bring the arm down with a bold swing from the shoulder . You ...
... head . But it certainly will not spin . If you want to make it spin , you must hold your hand high - we always used to hold it above the head and at its full stretch -and then bring the arm down with a bold swing from the shoulder . You ...
Side 167
... head will be a very efficient substitute , and will answer all purposes ( but appearances ) almost equally well . A gun with a six - inch spring , backed by a second , as described above , and loaded with No. 1 shot , will make very ...
... head will be a very efficient substitute , and will answer all purposes ( but appearances ) almost equally well . A gun with a six - inch spring , backed by a second , as described above , and loaded with No. 1 shot , will make very ...
Side 187
... head , and should be invariably removed . If possible , there should be no fire in the room ; if , however , it be unavoid- able that there should be one , the blind man must be warned every time he approaches and at least a wire guard ...
... head , and should be invariably removed . If possible , there should be no fire in the room ; if , however , it be unavoid- able that there should be one , the blind man must be warned every time he approaches and at least a wire guard ...
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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.