It so happened that at a game ofcricket Walter by accident had received a blow on the knee from the cricket-ball bowled by Franklin, who was a tremendously hard and swift bowler.
He is now nineteen, and a personage of immense importance in the school, for he is head of the cricket eleven, Walter being head of the football.
The great cricket stops singing, she says, at half-past four: the cessation of its chant awakens her.
He thought about a cricket he had one day watched in the harbor,--drifting out with the tide, on an atom of dead bark.
They play football, cricket and other games that are common at the English universities; they have gymnasiums and prizes for athletic excellence.
The prince was Ranjitsinhji, a famous cricket player, whom some consider the champion in that line of sport.
In the afternoon nettings are hung around one of the broad decks and games of cricket are played.
The Aligarh University has the best football team and the best cricket team in the empire.
I love the squirrel that hops in the corn, And the cricket that quaintly sings; And the emerald pigeon that nods his head, And the shad that gayly springs.
Sir Francis exchanged views on weather, politics, and the coming cricket season with his guest.
And with that this unceremonious young man clanked away, leaving the Professor, who had not looked on at a cricket match for a matter of thirty years, much amused.
Something lithe and gripping sprang upon his back as he muttered, making him roar out; and the chirrup of a great cricket shrilled in his ear-- 'Biting limbs!
Jacopo wanted no shrewd cricket at the boy's side, to leaven the horror for him with his song of cheer.
Mr. Methold played for Harrow in the first cricket match which that school won against Eton.
A two days' cricket match, between eleven of the South of England and twenty-two of Norfolk and Norwich, commenced on the Newmarket Road ground, Norwich.
The first Norwich Cricket Week commenced on the Lakenham Ground.
At a meeting held on the 17th, it was agreed by the Dereham Cricket Club to hire the ground hitherto let to the County Cricket Club.
The Norfolk and Norwich Gymnastic Society held their first annual sports on the Newmarket Road Cricket Ground.
A cricket match between eighteen of Norwich and eleven of All England, commenced on the new Cricket Ground, Newmarket Road, Norwich, and concluded on the 11th.
Colours were presented to the West Norfolk Militia, on the Cricket Ground, Norwich, by the Countess of Albemarle.
An aeronaut named Grais made a balloon ascent from the Newmarket Road Cricket Ground, Norwich, and upon attaining an altitude of about 3,000 feet descended by means of a parachute.
Foot-racing was revived on the Old Cricket Ground at Norwich, by Mr. Thomas Sapey, a local sportsman.
When at Harrow he played in the cricket eleven, and on leaving Cambridge University took a leading part in athletic games, and was well-known throughout the country as a clever cricketer, a good horseman, and an excellent shot.
As a sportsman Mr. Bagge was well known in the coursing and cricket fields, and in politics was a staunch Conservative.
The Norwich Cricket Week commenced on this date, and concluded on the 11th.
The boys were playing cricket now, and he stood a few minutes watching them.
The girls played cricket as well as tennis, worked in their gardens, and were taken for walks on the downs or on the shore.
I'm sure I do heaps of things for you; I was playing cricket with you all morning, wasn't I?
But she considered it was inadvisable to train girls to care for nothing but cricket and hockey, and wished them to take up a number of small interests, such as they could carry on afterwards at home.
On Saturday they thought we might have a cricket match--if it wasn't too cold!
For years past the house had led on the cricket and football field and off it.
It was too early to prophesy concerning the fortunes of next term's cricket team, but, if they were going to resemble the fifteen, Wrykyn was doomed to the worst athletic year it had experienced for a decade.
They struck me," he said, "as the sort of team who'd get into form somewhere in the middle of the cricket season.
In cricket the eleven had had an even finer record, winning all their school matches, and likewise beating the M.
A move was made to the passage in which Sheen's study was situated, and, with divers groans and howls, the junior day-room hove football boots and cricket stumps at the door.
He was looked on as the best cricketplayer in the section of the country in which he lived, playing frequently on elevens which had besides himself George and Harry Wright as members.
From cricket he became interested in the national game of base ball, and eventually, in connection with Mr. A.
But there was no play on the football grounds for cricket was coming: and some said that Barnes would be prof and some said it would be Flowers.
In the silence of the soft grey air he heard the cricket bats from here and from there: pock.
He saw himself walking about the grounds watching the sports in Clongowes and eating slim jim out of his cricket cap.
The air was very silent and you could hear the cricket bats but more slowly than before: pick, pock.
And from here and from there came the sounds of the cricket bats through the soft grey air.
Paul disliked me more and more, and Evie talkedcricket averages till I nearly screamed.
These dainty ones are themselves contemptuously called Figs by David and other heroes, and you have a key to the manners and customs of this dandiacal section of the Gardens when I tell you that cricket is called crickets here.
The Gardens are noted for two kinds of cricket: boy cricket, which is real cricket with a bat, and girl cricket, which is with a racquet and the governess.
Between the well and the Round Pond are the cricket pitches, and frequently the choosing of sides exhausts so much time that there is scarcely any cricket.
And when they learn drawing and weaving in the schools, their first design is often a picture of a cricket and a gull.
And when at last they finished, they had stripped the fields of the cricket army; and the people were saved.
In those days rhetoric was a living cult in the Netherlands: Dutchmen and Flemings played at rhetoric with some of the enthusiasm that we keep for cricket and sport.
I noticed this particularly on an afternoon journey from Amsterdam to Hilversum, between the city and Weesp, where the meadows (cricket grounds manqués) are flat as billiard tables.
She left her charges playing a game ofcricket on their lawn, and hoped they would stay there till tea-time.
Cricket and I played a game of chess, in which he insisted that I should take the part of the British, while he represented the Americans.
Cricket goes by the night boat this evening, and Philip Brady leaves on Monday.
Cricket made no answer to her little sermon--only put out his hands in response to hers, and gave her a grip like a freemason's.
Cricket and Ben Bradford--and a bouquet for Mistress Nora, with her brooch hanging from it in a little bag which Miss Standish was manufacturing when I came away.
Cricket standing at the foot of the stairs, wiping the perspiration off his forehead with a large silk handkerchief.
Cricket to prove that my affection is deeper and loftier, and generally better worth having, than his.
Cricket said that when he first heard the booming of guns, half-asleep as he was, he dreamed that the statue of William Penn was falling off the dome of the Philadelphia city hall.
Cricket has got him and his sister shut up in their rooms, to git over the shawk.
Cricket would not let her leave her room to go and tell you how grateful she was.
Cricket questioned with the inflection of a man who neither expects nor desires an answer.
Cricket will testify, for on my soul I think the old duffer wants to marry her.
But a very quiet time was not just the holiday that Judith had planned to have, and after a long night's sleep and a peaceful day devoted to letter-writing she was lively as a cricket and ready for anything.
Many classes were held in the big sun porches and in the sheltered spots in the grounds, and the various teams were hard at basket-ball and cricket and tennis, even before breakfast.
Miss Ashwell looked adorably pretty, they all agreed, when she and Miss Meredith joined them in the latter's garden after the cricket match.
There was a Senior cricket match being played and the Fifth-Formers were loath to lose one minute of that.
Henfrey, of Day's, the Wrykyn cricket captain, met Clephane at the nets when the drawing for opponents had been done.
Well, when I went to take the quid out of my cricket bags, it wasn't there.
As the captain of cricket ordered these matters, Henfrey had naturally selected the best bit of turf for Day's v.
