He played many games with Holly on the lawn, pitching them up to her who was batting so as to be ready to bowl to Jolly in the holidays.
Outside it they found Jack Cardigan in a dark blue tie (he had once played for Harrow), batting with a Malacca cane to show how that fellow ought to have hit that ball.
And Milford, leaning above Hovey's shoulder, viewed the list of batting candidates and ruefully concluded that she would not have much trouble doing it.
Kesner, who had taken Lester's place in the batting list, stepped to the plate and faced Dithman, and the final struggle was on.
Prepare in advance "snowballs," made of cotton batting covered with white tissue paper.
Pieces of cotton batting stuck in the opening at the top may serve as heads.
Hardly had the batting begun than this captain rose with some dignity to approach Meggy.
Shortly after the "Prince" took up his batting position for old Hillcrest, the sub from the Fairfield bench moved forward to touch Meggy on the shoulder.
He did not think they were abundant anywhere along the Alaska Peninsula.
On the food habits of some fish-eating birds in Denmark.
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) The pigeon guillemot is common throughout the region from Cape Fairweather to Washington.
Even though it is not truly colonial, it may be locally abundant where there are suitable nest sites.
John and Fluff were playing in the Sixth Form game; but John had no chance of his Flannels, although he had improved in batting and bowling, thanks to Warde's indefatigable coaching.
The bowling has become deplorably feeble, the batting even more so.
For Eton has a strong batting team, and Scaife and Desmond have proved that it is a batsman's wicket.
But the batting was nothing to the play when Templeton was out and took the offensive.
They are usually made from cotton battingand a generous layer of absorbent cotton.
These pads should be thirty-six inches square and about five inches thick, three or four inches of which may be the cotton batting and the remainder absorbent cotton.
I endured them in silence, though I could have given Fred away had I liked, for his cap and gown were both in his rooms, and I knew that he was more probably batting in a net than taking notes at a lecture.
I could not get any wickets however much I tried until we played Pembroke, who were not exactly a strong batting side, and to make things easier for me they had their three best men away.
At five o'clock tea was ready and the game was interrupted for so long that we gave up all thoughts of winning it, but I heard afterwards from the parson himself that as a general rule only the batting side had tea and the other XI.
After a few minutes spent in the unsatisfactory pursuit of finding out that my batting average for St. Cuthbert's was 2.
To-night, when I told Dinky-Dunk that Peter would in all likelihood be here to-morrow, he listened withoutbatting an eyelash.
Whereupon he said back, without batting an eye: "Yes, I happen to have read a bit of Henry James.
Curving a ball had come natural to him, and he would have pitched all his high-school games had it not been for the fact that no one could catch him, and, moreover, none of the boys had found any fun in batting against him.
Behind him a hundred or more players in line slowly marched toward the slab of rubber which marked the batting position.
Worry kept them at fielding and batting for four full hours every afternoon.
Then the coach turned to his work, the batting began again, and the crack of the ball, the rush of feet, the sharp cries of the players mingled once more with the laughter and caustic wit of the unsympathetic audience.
An unofficial computing gives him the batting average of .
With no one out and the head of the batting list up, the Wayne players awoke to possibilities.
Then Raymond came along, and, batting left-handed, did likewise.
These men represented the batting strength of Place, and Ken, though he did not in the least underestimate them, had no fear.
He knew the coach placed batting before any other department of the game.
Burr, the curly-haired leader of Herne's batting list, took his position to the left of the plate.
The coach divided his players into two nines and had them practise batting first, then fielding, and finally started them in a game, with each candidate playing the position he hoped to make on the varsity.
Every afternoon for a week the coach put these players through batting and sliding practice, then ordered them out to run around the track.
Fellows, you will follow me in our regularbatting order," directed Homans.
Murphy, batting next, hit one which Ken put straight over the plate, and it went safe through second, scoring Van Sant.
Most of us have rested the whole afternoon, and those of the other side who are not batting can have tea.
If she thought about him at all, which was doubtful, or in any way differentiated him from the other young men of the party, she would probably consider that he was flattered by her gracious inquiries about his batting average.
Then he sat down without batting an Eye and every member of the Class of '03 knew just how to go out and pile up a Million.
There's quite decent batting all the way through, and the bowling isn't so bad.
Psmith had always disclaimed any pretensions to batting skill, but he was undoubtedly the right man for a crisis like this.
Adair did not suffer from panic, but his batting was not equal to his bowling, and he had fallen after hitting one four.
She would field out in the deep as a natural thing when Mike was batting at the net in the paddock, though for the others, even for Joe, who had played in all five Test Matches in the previous summer, she would do it only as a favor.
The batting was not so good, but there were some quite capable men.
It should then be covered inside and outside with white cloth on which the cotton batting can be basted.
It looked for all the world as if the gunners were batting out flies and this was the baseball which was sailing along.
One of the men in the crowd which watched the batting practice was a French soldier headed back for the front.
Bob got into the batting work and had no trouble in putting the ball wherever he wanted to.
The first of the third brought the Laurelville tail-enders to the bat, but the tail-enders proved more formidable that inning than the head of the batting list had theretofore.
In the English game of "Rounders," the parent of baseball, a home-run hit either restores life to a man already out or provides the batting side with a life in reserve.
In baseball no man can have more than a very small number of hits in a match; in cricket he can be batting for a whole day, and then again before the match is over.
The school's batting talent is great, but the bowling's weak.
The sight of him battingthere made me feel another squirmy sensation at the thought that he was my especial friend.
The habit grows; one's wicket always falls after a few straight balls; and one's batting goes from bad to worse.
But then that's not being a star pitcher," he added, lest Joe feel badly at the contrast in theirbatting averages.
It was success in cotton-batting that enabled the firm to make those speculations that eventually placed millions to its credit, and familiarized the Bourse and Threadneedle Street with its name.
So in smart circles there was never any mention of cotton-batting when the name of Neargood came up.
Prissler, at the tail-end of the batting list, had already struck out twice, and he expected to do it again when he faced the Belden pitcher in the last half of the sixth inning.
The Belden players were batting and fielding fungoes and grounders, with not a single Lakeville fellow in sight.
And hadn't he studied batting as assiduously as he had studied fielding through the long season?
For Roundy was the last regular player on the batting list.
But here, unfortunately, Lakeville reached the hopeless end of its batting list.
Cotton batting fastened to the end of a stick will make a good brush.
Put the metal in this hot liquid and swab it with batting or cloth fastened to the end of a stick.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "batting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
