This man of iron saw it, and, seeing, admired hugely the gameness that dwelt in her slim body.
He was a black, bilious-tempered fellow, but this particular kind of gameness appealed to him.
This study dealt much with the young middleweight's rugged strength and gameness and his natural skill as a fighter.
And the crowd did homage to his gameness by howling approval.
He has, however, a clean, low frictionless stride far preferable to the high sweeping action of his rival, and his clean-cut thoroughbred lines and splendid chest indicated that he had both gameness and stamina.
The red-throat trout rises to the fly more freely than the Eastern brook trout, though in gameness and flavor it is hardly its equal.
It is a handsome fish, with considerably more gameness than the red-throat, but is not so vigorous on the rod as the steelhead of the same size.
The filmy wreath represented the acme of dare-devil recklessness, the final proof of gameness in John Beaudry's son.
One quality they all had in common, the gameness to see out to a finish anything they undertook.
Gameness was one of the fundamentals of her creed, and he had showed the white feather.
All New York was jubilant, and comments were rife everywhere on the gameness of their pets in the fight they were making against accident and hard luck.
And to-day the applause was heartier than ever because of the importance of the game and also in recognition of his gameness in coming to the help of his team so soon after a serious accident.
The title is certainly not a misnomer, these little Terriers of Highland descent still having the gameness of their ancestors, though many of them at the present time are only used as ladies' companions.
The foregoing account would appear to be fairly acceptable, and one that is in accordance with the gameness of these little Terriers.
The quality of gameness in a fish is best determined by the character of the tackle used.
It is a fish whose gameness will satisfy the most exacting of expert Anglers, and whose readiness to take any proper line will please the most impatient of inexperienced amateurs.
The hardships that the troops endured in the camp, rather than surrender, afford one of the numerous examples on record of the wonderful gameness and heroism of the English soldier.
Feeling great confidence in the gameness of my well-conditioned, hardy little nag, I let him go over the green springy turf, and soon found that the distance between us and the hartebeest was diminishing.
Both of the Dinsmores had a reputation for gameness in a country where the ordinary citizen was of proved courage.
He too had been a fighting man, but it was not his reputation for gameness that restrained the ruffian.
Sam saw me catch this bonefish, and he was as amazed as I was at the gameness and speed and strength of so small a fish.
Hence we can scatter the news to the four winds and ask for the comradeship of kindred spirits, of men who love the sea and the stream and the gameness of a fish.
We were both excited and thrilled with the gameness of this fish.
It is a good game-fish for its size on the light tackle just mentioned, and is well worth a trial on account of its beauty, and excellence for the table, even if its gameness is not considered.
On account of its activity and gameness it furnishes fine sport on light tackle, and under these conditions is worthy the attention of the angler.
While grayling are taken during the trout season, in spring and summer, the most successful season seems to be from September to December, when they are at their best, both as to gameness and condition.
This idea of its lack of gameness is implied in Tennyson's lines:-- "Here and there a lusty trout.
A quick pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, with the hauling aboard as soon as possible of the struggling fish, amidst much splashing and floundering, seems to be their estimation of gameness in a fish.
To my mind a grayling is much more difficult to land than a trout, and the more I fish for grayling the more convinced I am of his gameness and sporting qualities.
I think no one appreciates the gameness of the channel-catfish, or has such a just estimation of its toothsomeness, as the Kentucky darky.
From my own experience I am prepared to say that the large-mouth bass is more to be relied on in rising to the fly than the small-mouth, which fact should be taken into consideration when the gameness of the two species is compared.
I have taken them in that stream up to two pounds; for gameness they were equal to trout of the same weight, and just as good for the table.
Like Sidney he admired the girl's gameness though he was beginning to wish they had not let her come.
If any doubt assailed them as to the prudence of letting Pola go, their admiration for Pola's gameness stilled it.
I have fished up the burn with fly, when it was very low, hiding carefully behind the boulders, and have been surprised at the size and gameness of the fish.
They wanted a dog combining all the dash and gameness of the terrier with the heart and courage and fighting instinct of the Bulldog.
Sick as he was, he realized the gameness of Billy Louise; what he failed to realize was the gameness of himself.
Gameness is the final factor of good sportsmanship.
I believe that a newly developed spirit of sportsmanship, acting upon a newly developed body, will presently bring to many a disheartened struggler just that increment of resilientgameness which will mean success instead of failure.
