On a certain day he offered a pecuniary reward for holing canes, which is the most laborious operation in West Indian husbandry.
Mr. Steele informs us, that his superintendant had obliged him to hire all his holing at 3 l.
A nice little pen-wiper can be made by cutting three circles of black cloth, snipping the edges or button-holing them with colored silk, and standing in the middle one of the droll little Japanese birds just mentioned.
Willy Fernie was the professional there in those days, and in the zenith of his fame; it was not long before that he had beaten Bob Ferguson for the championship by holing a long putt for a two at the last hole at Musselburgh.
Sometimes they are good enough, though hardly ever easy; but very often, unless I have been exceptionally unfortunate in my experience, they are rather rough and lumpy, and make theholing of short putts a very anxious business.
Finally, there is a green not very fiercely guarded, but full of terribly difficult curves and angles, wherein the holing of the very shortest putt is a matter for much prayerful 'borrowing.
Everybody plays golf now and is always playing, and in such circumstances somebody must always be holing in 1, or very nearly.
Still there is room for distinction in holing in 1 yet, and the men who crave for such notoriety need not despair.
III That which was regarded by our ancestors as a most amazing feat, namely, holing with the tee shot, has become exceeding common.
Another advance on the simple feat of holing in one stroke is to do it twice within a year.
Each insisted on holing out at the hole to which his ball lay dead (the holes were many yards apart), and then the dispute began, each claiming the hole.
Being a Horatian, he summed up in favor of the Golden Mean, and recommended pigeon-holing to the favorable consideration of the jury.
Pigeon-holing implied pigeon-holers, and no two pigeon-holers were alike.
The tyranny of aristocratic pigeon-holing seemed past, but its place was being taken by the hardly less outrageous tyranny of democracy's pigeon-holes.
The injustices of pigeon-holing were rampant in the Essayist's own enlightened time.
And when men began to apply the principle of pigeon-holing to the actual business of life, what economy of time and of energy!
What service had been lost to the State by the pigeon-holing of party--talent and patriotism denied a sphere of usefulness because of being among the minority!
In other words, pigeon-holing was the creation of no rule; it was an Art.
Yes, pigeon-holing meant cumulative progress, and the cumulative process had never been so rapid, nor given so much promise, as just now.
The world had never before possessed so many appliances to facilitate the pigeon-holing of men and things and movements.
For pigeon-holing was not only progress, but cumulative progress.
Might not the ever increasing skill in pigeon-holing lead before long to a definition of religion, the cessation of doctrinal quarrels, and the sinking of all differences in a common ideal of administration, conduct, and even belief?
Pigeon-holing and Efficiency were the two great features of the age, and walked, or rather rushed, hand in hand.
This is sometimes obviated by holing in the beds below the coal, or in any portion of a seam of inferior quality that may not be worth working.
The process of holing in coal is one of the severest kinds of human labour.
The danger of "holing to a house of water," is so great and so well known that the operation is usually conducted with great care, and accident is well guarded against.
If there are pockets, the striker scores 2 for holing the white object-ball and 3 for holing the black, but a cannon must be made by the same stroke; otherwise the score counts for the adversary.
So rare is he and such spendthrifts are we of good things that people not only will not note what might well be noted but they will not even keep what others have noted, if they are to be at the pains of pigeon-holing it.
My theory of the unconscious does not lead to universal unconsciousness, but only to pigeon-holing and putting by.
The player continues playing after making a cannon, or after holing his own or adversary's ball, if he has struck the black ball first.
I had the misfortune to miss holing out a somewhat short putt.
With my cleek shot from the tee I pulled the ball into this dismal place, and by the rule in force at the time I lost two strokes and played again from the tee, Taylor holing out in 3 to my 5.
On one occasion, also, I have enjoyed the coincidence of holing out with my mashie approach at the same hole twice in one day.
If you don't hit hard enough you will only succeed in holing your opponent's ball and earning his sarcastic thanks.
Now the hounds had been in the habit of holing this fox under the same rock, and the most of us know that when a pack of hounds hole a fox they generally tear things up some.
Each of these animals are great rovers, starting on a forage by sunset, traveling many miles in a night; never holing up for the bitterest freeze that comes.
Ten points are the most that can be scored by a single stroke with the cue, namely by striking the red ball first and then the white, and holing all three.
When all the red balls but one are pocketed, he who made the last hazard plays with the white and his opponent with the red; and so on alternately, till the game terminates by the holing of one or other ball.
Indeed, as a further precaution, staples of coal, about 10 inches square, are left at every 6 or 8 yards, till the line of holing or curving is completed.
But pigeon-holing was a favorite smothering process at Division Head-Quarters, and the drunken and disgraceful conduct of the Adjutant-General remains unpunished.
Time and again, when I thought I had the hole, having arrived on the green a stroke before him, he upset calculations by holing a gigantic putt.
He had about six holes in hand with only nine to play, and then Fry began to do conjuring tricks, holing putts from the edge of the green, and so on.
Thus the green was approached; and up to just about the date of which I am writing the subsequent operations of holing out were always performed with a wooden putter.
The end of the hole was that Bobby, by holing a very missable putt, did get a four, and Herman took five and lost the hole.
And well may the widows weep before you When your nightly round is done; They care nothing for a stymie, or the glory Gained by holing out in one.
He had been putting in the most amazing manner all the time, and holing them from everywhere, but nobody had any confidence in his ability to beat Mr. John Ball in the final, and he collapsed utterly.
Thus he was left to get the home hole in 4 to tie, and by holing a five-feet putt with not a second's hesitation, just as if everything in golf had not seemed to depend upon it, he tied.
It has been said that he was poisoned; but his manifold diseases would account for his death, and Holing the Jesuit, a contemporary writer, says simply that he was worn out by years and by the filth of his prison.
Practically every one has experienced the difficulty of holing short puts, especially when the green is extremely keen.
Of course not, you were labelling and pigeonholing all that you have thought of since sunrise!
I was only labelling and pigeon-holing a thought; it is to be laid away to moulder with the dust of ages.
From the drive off the tee to the holing of the final putt he was uniformly suave.
He was so near holing out that I should have supposed that nothing would have kept him from finishing the match.
Alexander plugged steadily round the bend, holing out in six, and Mitchell, whose second shot had landed him in some long grass, was obliged to use his niblick.
He told me later that just to watch her holing out her soup gave him a sort of feeling you get when your drive collides with a rock in the middle of a tangle of rough and kicks back into the middle of the fairway.
The game consists in each side playing a ball from a tee into a hole by successive strokes, and the hole is won by the side holing its ball in the fewest strokes, except as otherwise provided for in the rules.
It is well to finish the ends of the runner by button-holing with ravellings of the crash.
Plate V] After the embroidered pattern is done one may finish the mat with fine, close hemstitching or by button-holing the edge with ravellings of the crash.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
