They narrowed the nets about the gazelle when she drew near the King's station; and, planting herself on her hind quarter, crossed her forehand over her breast, as if about to kiss the earth before the King.
In order to play the ball with any | |success McLoughlin usually danced around it for a | |forehand shot, which put him wide of the court.
Probably never in all the years of the historic All | |Comers has a player displayed such phenomenal | |command of the ball with a forehand stroke.
I would suggest that we go through the forehand and backhand strokes to make certain that we are right.
For forehand play the grip of the hand should be along the handle with the first finger separated from the others and extended an inch or two farther along the racquet.
If I have known her, You will say she did embrace me as a husband, And so extenuate the forehand sin.
But by the patient aid of even these simple methods, intelligently used, you will have given Nelly an easy mouth, you will have suppled her forehand and croup, and you will have taught her to canter with either foot in the lead.
But no horse can be called a good saddle beast whose forehand and croup will not yield at once to the lightest pressure of rein or leg.
The two things can go on together, though it is well to get the forehand fairly suppled before beginning on the croup.
At the same time a supple croup and a rigid forehand cannot work in unison.
If you want to make Nelly's forehand and croup so supple that you can train her into the finest gaits and action, you must go to work on the stable floor with an hour a day at least of patient teaching, for a number of weeks.
The perfect saddle horse should be able to swing his croup about in a complete circle, of which one fore foot is the immovable centre, or his forehand about the proper hind foot, in either direction at will.
These two fragments, which were unknown to Michaelis, also supply the forehand of another horse and the body of the rider (No.
Stuart, who gives the head and forehand of the horse of No.
But if in turns or circles the croup be following the outer longer path, the forehand will be retarded so that everywhere on the arc or the circumference the diagonal position of the mass shall be observed.
In coming to a turn or on a circle, the croup will be slightly retarded, so that the diagonal position shall be observed everywhere on the arc or the circumference, if the forehand be following the longer outer path.
From time to time the rider should, while in a slow but nimble trot, bring the horse to closer forms of collection, the heels maintaining the impulses, the hand with vibratory plays upon the reins, keeping the forehand light and lithe.
An active horse should never stumble badly when ridden in hand; and if the rider leans back and supports the forehand until a bearer is carried under the centre of gravity, it is seldom that the horse will fall.
When the horse makes one step with the croup away from the man, the forehand held in place by the snaffle-reins, the whip taps should cease, and the horse be rewarded by caresses.
Suppose the horse be low in the forehand and goes too much on the shoulders when in action,--a miserable condition of affairs.
The hind legs will be carried under the body to depress the croup, the forehand will be raised and its forces carried to the rear, until the weight and forces are brought to the desired point of union and balance.
In the work upon two paths the body of the horse should be placed diagonally across the line of progress, the forehand slightly in advance of the croup, the head of the horse bent in the direction of the movement.
The use of reining back is to bring the greater weight from the horse's forehand to his haunches, to collect him and make him light in hand.
When the lady can accomplish trotting out for twenty minutes without allowing her horse to break, she should then be instructed to collect him to a slower pace, bringing him more upon his haunches, and with his forehand more up.
The pace can scarcely be too slow, but every step must be taken up to the bridle, the horse's forehand up, and his haunches well under him.
In leaping, a horse first raises his forehand upwards with a half rear, both feet quitting the ground at the same instant, the height he rises corresponding to the angle at which he takes off.
Keep his forehandwell up, and his haunches under him.
In forehand play the bowl as it courses to the jack describes its segment of a circle on the right, in backhand play on the left.
When the wolf heard this, he bit his forehand for repentance.
When it was the One Hundred and Fiftieth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the wolf heard the fox's words he bit his forehand for repentance.
It is evident that the sensibility of the mouth is the means by which we are enabled to remain in touch with the forehand of the horse.
The rider, by leaning back, removes weight from his forehand and is prepared for any mistake he may make.
His forehand drive is very fast, excessively topped, and exceedingly erratic.
I was besieged with requests to explain why Jones missed a forehand drive down the side-line, or Smith couldn't serve well, or Brown failed to hit the ball at all.
She drives and chops forehand and backhand with reckless abandon.
In a series of driving returns from his forehand to my backhand, he suddenly switched and pounded the ball to my forehand corner and rushed to the net.
The present shows us the forehand driving of Johnston, the service of Murray, the volleying of Richards, the chop of Wallace F.
She slices or "spoons" her ground strokes, forehand or backhand.
Hit your forehand drive decisively but do not attempt to kill every shot.
He has excellent orthodox drives, fore- and backhand, and a competent forehand chop.
He has a wonderfulforehand drive, of a top-spin variety.
She has a peculiar reverse twist service, a wonderful forehand drive, but with excessive top spin, a queer backhand poke, a fine volley and a reliable overhead.
Alonzo has a terrific forehand drive that is the closest rival to W.
She chops viciously forehand and backhand off the ground and storms the net at every opening.
Johnston's game has no real weakness, while his forehand and volleying are superlative.
Her ground strokes are clean, flat drives forehand and backhand.
The letter "i" again shows a feature, which has previously been mentioned in the standard writing, of an increase of forehand slant, that is a slant to the right with respect to that letter as compared to other letters.
Would you explain in lay terms what you mean by "an increase in forehand slant"?
In other words, it has an extreme forehand slant rather than standing up in a more vertical position which we would find in a copybook.
Both of these features, the emphasis of an approach stroke and the increase in forehand slant, are found in the standard writing.
And we also have the circumstance that most small letter "i's" show an increase in forehand slant.
Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift.
Crosscourts: To be mixed in with your straight up and down strokes are the crosscourt forehand and backhand shots.
Your chances of success are, therefore, far greater if attempted off the forehand side.
The ball travels off your racquet high into the backhand or left wall, rebounds sharply to the opposite or forehand wall heading toward the front of the court.
The double boast is hit almost straight into the side wall and fairly low (three to four feet above the floor) and can be hit either off the forehand or backhand side.
The forehand and backhand ground strokes should be hit with a short, snap of the wrist--as though you were cracking a whip.
Straight up and down backhand and forehand rail shots.
Of course, not those birds who have had theforehand of a wing amputated.
