Joinville figured one which he found on the large roussette (the flying-fox), and says he had seen another on a bat of the same family.
And the crack of the bat against the ball did sound so fine across the field.
Then Dicky, who insisted on being the other captain, picked up the bat and threw it with the handle uppermost to Fatty, who caught it around the middle.
However, all the time he could hear the sound of that bat over on the Miller lot.
And off he walked towards his own barn, swinging his arms all the way, as if he were holding a bat and showing them just how well he could play.
Another test of a sufficient grasp is for a player to hammer with a second bat on the hand which is uppermost.
In this last case, therefore, the grasp must be low enough for the wood of the bat to be struck by the blow.
The game is much played on the ice, as has been the case from the oldest times in the North; for this is doubtless a descendant of the games with bat and ball described in Icelandic Sagas.
From Eastern custom we get our tennis, while most of our games withbat and ball seem to have come down to us from the ancient North.
BAT'TING, the management of a batin playing games: cotton fibre prepared in sheets.
Thus the arms of a man and the wings of a bird are homologues of one another, while the wing of a bird and the wing of a bat are both analogous and homologous.
What would you do if I should bat you one in the eye?
Galpy's teeth set and his cricket batwent up in the air.
Against bare legs a cricket bat is a highly dissuasive argument.
Some were mounted on magnificent chargers, others were on foot, and among them were many silken banners each bearing the same device, a black vampire bat with wings outspread upon a crimson ground.
It is the great god with the wings of a bat and the tail of a lion!
Then, I saw that upon the crest of the diadem was a single great diamond wonderfully chiselled to represent a batwith outspread wings, the device upon the banners of the mystic realm.
