Durham started their half of the sixth with Carpenter up and that dependable youth slammed out a two-base hit at once.
There was a wild pitch that was just saved from being a passed ball by a brilliant stop of Apthorpe's; then the batsman hit an infield fly and was caught out.
Beeton followed with a scratch hit just back of shortstop and the bases were full.
Her center fielder opened up with a hit and a moment later stole second.
Then, just when things were at their gloomiest, a short hit to second baseman resulted in a double play, and once more Willard's found cause for delight and acclaim.
But when I'd sort of got the hang of it I could hit them right well.
The third man made a leisurely hit and was thrown out at first.
Durham's players were eager for just that sort, and the batsman made a long, clean hit into the outfield between first and second.
Then came Willings with a short hit past third and Don scored.
One fellow claimed to know the exact spot on my body where the ball hit me; while another, not willing to be outdone, had given a minute description of the locality where I fell.
Says he, Dick says he, how did they hit you so many times?
In a few seconds one of the exploring parties, making a curve, hit the other end of the path, and the news was quickly spread, for the rest followed almost immediately.
Behind them, smoking and abandoned, are amphibian tractors which were hit as they approached the beach.
A bazooka gunner in 2/1’s front hit two of the tanks.
Ash, had been killed earlier in the day by a direct hit upon his landing LVT.
A rifle grenade hit the gun muzzle itself, and ricocheted into the casement, setting off explosions and flames.
The forward battalion CP group was strafed by Navy planes and then hit by artillery airburst, causing the loss of 18 battalion headquarters personnel to “friendly fire.
The early D plus 1 barrage hit the regimental CP, took out numbers of the staff, and buried the regimental commander in the crumbling Japanese antitank trench in which the CP was “sheltered.
More disturbingly, as the leading waves neared the beaches, the LVTs were hit by heavy enfilading artillery and antiboat gun fire coming from concealed bunkers on north and south flanking points.
About the time of the Japanese tank attack, a mortar barrage hit the 3/5 CP in the antitank ditch near the beach, killing several staff and prompting the evacuation of the battalion commander.
That's who I 'lowed hit wiz," said Grandsir Hightower, in the tone of one who had previously made up his mind.
Fust hit was Giner'l Jackson an' the bank, an' now hit's the railroad kyars.
The one with the stick drove the fish between the rocks, and then hit them, the other lighting him in the meanwhile.
About fifteen years ago, a donkey driver accidentally hit upon a productive silver mine.
A friend of mine hit on it, a clerk in a City warehouse, one of the cleverest chaps I ever knew.
I sat up all one night trying to find a name for it; but couldn't hit on the right one.
Some one must have hit upon that precise line and the reason for it.
Saying this, the Australian hit the table with the palm, of his hand in a manner so manly that an aged retainer who was putting coals upon the fire allowed the coal-scuttle to drop.
No one could have hitthose gunners or those teams.
When you mention the War Between the States, you have hit a favorite subject of hers.
Getting tired of it if they don't hit us, and make us put up a white flag for the doctor.
The man was evidently hit badly, for he kept on sinking down flat on his face, and four times over a curious sensation of regret came over Dickenson, mingled with a desire to go to his help with such surgical aid as he could supply.
Fraid of being hit by us or them, sir," replied the sergeant.
I was wondering whether we had hit upon the river-bank.
It was just as if some one had hit me over the head with the butt of a rifle.
Farewells and advice more or less jocular rang across the rail of the boat between some ten or fifteen of us who had hit the new trail and those on shore.
In a short time he did not know exactly where he was, and he hitout more wildly.
They never by any chance hit anything they aimed at, and they did not even succeed in frightening the birds or the rabbits, which darted hither and thither and hopped about quite near to them in the most unconcerned fashion.
