Athletic amusements go on naturally here: do not require so much fostering as in towns.
An athletic frame, it is true, is fashioned by gymnastic exercises; but a form of beauty only by free and uniform action.
She smiled pleasantly, turned with athletic grace and picked her way among the packing-cases back to the door.
One of the publishers to whom Johnson applied for employment measured with a scornful eye that athletic though uncouth frame, and exclaimed, "You had better get a porter's knot and carry trunks.
Park railway station lies north of the business quarter, and farther north are the Wanderers' athletic sports ground and Joubert's Park.
The interrupter must be Harry Wilbur; nobody else approached door-knockers in so athletic a spirit.
The floor was strewn with papers, books and papers lay on the chairs, on the sofa, even on the preternaturally high and massive bedstead, that looked quite inaccessible to all save the athletic without the aid of a ladder.
In a few days came his friend, a fine tall athletic man of about forty.
He was an athletic fellow of about twenty-eight, dressed in brown frieze.
A tall athletic figure was striding amongst them, evidently a jockey and a stranger, looking at them and occasionally asking a slight question of one or another of their proprietors, but he did not buy.
Aside from the artistic remnants, there are a number of relics bearing on the athletic aspect of Olympia—its chief side, of course.
The modern Olympic games, such as are held in Athens every now and then, are but feeble attempts to give a classic tone to a very ordinary athletic meet of international character.
During the first thirteen Olympiads there was but one athletic event,—a running race.
Footnote 398: The same indifference to athletic sports, as practised in Greece, is mentioned in the Life of Philopœmen.
The Romans maintained their bodily vigour by athletic and military exercises to a late period of life.
Footnote 204: The Greek writers often employ similes and metaphors derived from the athletic contests.
A successor to Mr. Vaughan was soon found in Mr. Robert Noel Douglas, who after having had a distinguished Academic and Athletic career at Selwyn College, Cambridge, had been appointed Assistant Master at Uppingham in 1892.
The Officers Training Corps has flourished, an Athletic shop has been opened, and in every respect the development of the School has continued.
I wonder you did not put two and two together before and guess that the wonderfully athletic foe who almost broke your father's neck in some mysterious manner was--a Thug.
As a fairly strong andathletic man I can assist you.
In a word, they had done, from the athletic point of view, nearly all that could be done.
After the Torpid matches the school settled down to train (more or less) for the athletic sports.
In athletic pursuits an inferior, in all intellectual attainments he was pulling far ahead of his friend.
Three years of good living and hard drinking had deprived his figure of its athletic beauty.
He was a man of athletic constitution, and well adapted to cope with the trials on the frontier.
He was a bold and athletic man, skilful with the rifle, and a lineal descendant of the revolutionary hero whose name he bore, and whose fighting characteristics were reproduced in him.
They are very fortunate in the friendship of the principal of their school and his friend, an athletic young doctor.
There are school and athletic competitions, pranks and frolics and all in all a book of which most boy readers will have no criticism to make.
A series of exciting ball games and athletic contests with the boys at the hotel naturally follows, and the boys display as many varieties of human nature as could their elders.
I only learned recently that you were once engaged to Mr. Morris King, your faithful attorney, and that you threw him over for an athletic parson with blond hair and a smile, yet I have never chided you about this little secret.
He had been fooled so often by the power of this athletic dreamer, he feared to predict the end, though he felt certain what it would be.
Slowly and unconsciously she was clothing this powerful, athletic man with every attribute of her ideal.
A tall, athletic figure in football shorts and swathed about with many sweaters, with a bright red cushion under his arm, stood gazing in the direction of the lower boom.
The high physical standard demanded of each on entry, the athletic training of their early years, the stern rigour of life afloat, perhaps accounted for it.
One who is not in athletic training will either fail completely in the test or do his heart irreparable damage.
The good-looking, athletic young cash-keeper planted in the opposite chair met the salesman's earnest gaze level-eyed.
Good judges on the working floor of the Lawrenceville Athletic Club had said of the well-muscled young bank cashier that he did not know his own strength.
Once, one evening when he had been induced to put on the gloves with the Athletic Club's trainer, he had contrived to plant a body blow which had sent the wiry little Irishman to the mat, gasping and fighting for the breath of life.
Barring a healthy and as yet unsatisfied appetite, Smith was in the pink of condition, and the little trainer in the Lawrenceville Athletic Club had imparted the needful skill.
Several times he invited me to drink and smoke, but long usage to athletic training has given me a distaste for both practices, and I declined.
But now I saw that this tall and athletic young man had lost exactly two teeth--one from the lower jaw, just to the left of the centre, and another from the upper jaw, further still toward the left!
Now, as I observed just now, there are several tall, athletic young men about, and also there are several men who have lost teeth.
Royal Athletic College, of which he was the Principal.
To enable the students to devote their entire time to athletic exercises, such as boating, foot-ball, and the like, Professor Wogglebug had invented an assortment of Tablets of Learning.
The College of Athletic Arts Dorothy and her friends arrived at the Royal Palace at an opportune time, for Ozma was holding high court in her Throne Room, where Professor H.
Drummond is a nother good player I think this is all about athletic sports I have got to say and I will never forget the good wee rangers the result was on Saturday Rangers 2 Morton 1.
Not only the bravado of such a deed, but the athletic feat of carrying such a weighty object over that difficult country, are very characteristic of this people.
Lithe, active, and athletic men, none of whom fear death, and guarded by four warders in the loosest possible fashion, yet they never attempt a dash for freedom up the rocky slope which reaches down to their very promenade ground.
Suffice it to say that this lean and athletic man took off his shirt and literally wrung the sweat from it.
The tall, athletic figure of a man loomed up, blocked the way and stepped into the kitchen beside them.
Each Thursday evening there is organized athletic work in a large private gymnasium that is especially hired for the purpose.
The mechanical athletic and acrobatic equipments of the show were superb.
Any boy lacking his sense of athletic precision would have scored a dangerous fall.
He is six feet two inches high, of athletic build, with black hair and moustache, a regular nose, and an unpronounced Jewish appearance.
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