The other pretends to teach sparring in the City, and occasionally has a benefit in the Minories, Duke's Place, and the Fives Court.
When Linton wanted him to come and play fivesafter school, he declined on the ground that he was teaing with Chadwick, of Appleby's.
So Dunstable, with a glad smile, hove the lines into a cupboard in his study to keep company with the Greek numerals which he had done for Mr. Day, and went out to playfives with Linton.
Do you know whether any one at my tutors got hisfives choice this half?
He used to be alive, you know--the Ockley who was keeper of the fives in my first half.
Only after brek Oswald said to Dicky: 'What price fivesballs for knocking holes in greenhouses?
I'll bet you my fivesball I do,' Dicky rejoindered.
But Oswald did not see this, because it wasn't proved it was the fives ball.
Then it rained for two or three days, and the greenhouse leaked much more than just a fives ball, and the grown-ups said the man who put it up had scamped the job, and they sent for him to put it right.
Dicky said: 'If I could get the ladder round to the roof of the stovehouse I believe I should find my fives ball in the gutter.
When he said that the inside feeling in Oswald's mind began that he had felt afraid would, some time, and he told my father about him and Dicky moving the ladder, and about the hateful fives ball, and everything.
He seemed to be rather better fixed than usual that day, for he had quite a bundle of fives with him.
The amateur fives player let the ball drop from his hand, and refused to play another stroke, for all this time he had only ‘been breaking his heart to beat Cavanagh.
A stranger proposed to Cavanagh a match atfives for half a crown and a bottle of cider.
Why, that beast Franklin has got the tie and fives ball as well," he shouted.
They passed along those endless corridors to the back doors, through which law compels the boys to emerge, and sauntered down between the Fives Courts.
Of course, when one's a senior it's easy enough to bag one of the Fives Courts and have a game.
Franklin says you gave him a fives ball, and that isn't anything like worth the tie.
After all, boys cannot take part in a weekly run, the length of which was gradually extended, in daily exercise of some energetic nature, in gymnastics and fives and what not, without becoming wonderfully fit.
But--but I swapped a fives ball," pleaded Masters feebly.
Still, the one man had increased his bids by fives and the other only by ones.
Kinnison dashed up to an apparently blank wall, turned his back upon four commissioned officers holding cocked forty-fives at the ready, and fitted his right eye into a cup.
Guns; from seventy-fives up to the big boys, whose tremendous weight drove their wide caterpillar treads inches deep into solid ground.
Recreation establishments are liberally provided for, and other means of recreation, such as bowling and skittle alleys, fives courts, plunge baths and cricket grounds, are given.
Mention of the fives court, recreation ground and parade ground completes the description of a battalion barrack.
It was strictly against the rules for any boy to leave a fives ball about.
Proceed in like manner with five more to a second party, and so on, five parties in all, placing the fives on the top of each other.
You bet," said Kit "Three fives blew into the fireplace, and are no more.
Some have been here but a short time, some many weeks; and during their captivity their thoughts turned to old Eton days, and the game of fives recommended itself to them as a means of passing some of the many weary hours.
For example: A player having a pair or three fives of the character suit, may pung when another player discards a five character, expose his set and discard, the play going on in the regular direction from him.
The nines, sevens and fives and the first group you have withdrawn are shuffled, cut in two packets, and laid out on the table before the dealer.
I don't suppose any of the other twenty-fives will seem quite so big.
After all, Pauline, those promised twenty-fives can be used very pleasantly--even in Winton.
It was a poor blow from a scientific point of view, but Sheen's fives had given him muscle, and it checked Albert.
There was only one inmate of Seymour's who had a chance of carrying off the House Fives Cup.
The morrow, on which Sheen expected his eye to look curious, was the day he had promised to play fives with Mr Spence.
In addition to the Gotford and the House Boxing, the House Fives now came on, and the authorities of Seymour's were in no small perplexity.
Oh, by the way, you wouldn't care for a game of fives before breakfast tomorrow, I suppose?
Sheen, on the other hand, played fivesfor the house, and that was all.
I know he let the house down awfully badly in that business, but still, if he lifts the Fives Cup, that'll square the thing.
On the morning after the Aldershot competition Linton met the paper-boy at the door on his return from the fives courts, where he had been playing a couple of before-breakfast games with Dunstable.
But it's a bit fishy that he should have been playing fives all right two days running just after the competition.
So it came about that Menzies was chosen to uphold the house in the Fives Courts.
Tom and East had successfully occupied the desk some half-dozen times, and were grown so reckless that they were in the habit of playing small games with fives balls inside when the masters were at the other end of the big school.
Brown and East, you go and fag for Jones on the great fives court.
A few days before, they had been fagged at fives to fetch the balls that went off the court.
We've just come across the fives court, and Jones has four fags there already--two more than he wants.
Of course I do," said Tom; "didn't I hate spending two hours in the afternoon grubbing in the tough dirt with the stump of a fives bat?
He was busy with a copy of verses, and East and Tom were chatting together in whispers by the light of the fire, and splicing a favourite old fives bat which had sprung.
And as Tom didn't see his way to not profiting by these suggestions, the lesson went on about as quickly as usual, and Gower was able to start for the fives court within five minutes of the half-hour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
