The Umpire must keep the contesting nines playing constantly from the commencement of the game to its termination, allowing such delays only as are rendered unavoidable by accident, injury or rain.
He had not played on the school and Yale nines for nothing, and he had faced many a crisis fully as acute as the present one.
It was now only a question of whether Joe's team or Clevefield would win pennant honors, and, in any event, there would have to be several games played between the two nines to decide the matter.
Tunwell filled with another ace, and Burbridge got nothing worth mentioning in the draw, so that his three nines didn't look very big to us against an ace full.
The rivalry between the nines was intense and much interest was manifested as a consequence.
On Saturday it had been arranged that a game of baseball should come off, between nines of Company A and Company B.
The old man was now thinking of the bananas and the cabin, and his wife was thinking of "de nines an' de kerridge.
De nines is comin', an' when dey comes we'll be jes' like de white folks.
This was the famous Island of Cards, where lived the Ace and King and Queen and Knave, with the Nines and Tens and all the other Members--according to the Rules.
So the Tens and Nines began to blow on their flutes and pipes; the Eights and Sevens played on their sackbuts and viols; and even the Twos and Threes began to beat madly on their drums.
Or were they merely lower-caste people, to be ranked with the Nines and Tens?
The Nines and Tens assumed airs as though they belonged to the Great Court Cards.
If anyone, it must be the devil who knows where and when the nines will come up, and he is incorruptible on this point.
I have seen five nines on the table before now, which really is an excessive number.
Both our nines were fired, and, a few seconds after, three cheers arose from the decks of our ship.
A rival sprung up, however, in the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn, and its success led to the arrangement of a series of games between selected nines of the New York and Brooklyn Clubs in 1858.
Between these two nines there was the strongest kind of a rivalry, and as both were popular with the home people great crowds turned out to see the contests between them.
The only way we can learn to hit different kinds of pitching is to come up against nines that give us a stiff fight to win.
Who are to be the other two nines besides Belden and ourselves?
But we have played with village nines sometimes," interrupted Fred.
We've been scouting around and have found two townnines that will be glad to go in with us," answered Frank.
You'll notice that the nines that win the championships don't often come through the season with much more than six hundred per cent.
Triggs is as beautiful and condescending as ever, and was so good as to dine with us to-day, and tell him that I often play at nines and think of him.
It is but three nines or three knaves, or a mixture of them.
There were many shifts from some of the Sophomore or Junior nines to the 'varsity, and back again.
Here is the batting order and positions of the nines for to-day," he announced, producing a paper.
Honest Jack Pearce, one of the few good seamen we had aboard, was rubbing down one of the nines beside me.
You will take charge of the battery of nines on this deck, Mr. Carvel," said he, at length.
Even now she can't help setting her cap a little at Ted, and he swallows her whole; thinks her a devoted creature reformed to the nines with her hospital and all that.
Just when everybody was silent, like the buffoon he had always been; and Eustace got up to the nines below, too dandified to wear any colour or take any notice.
When the child got in among the sevens, eights, and nines she was wild with helplessness.
Then the two nines changed places and Mr. Cobb began knocking out the ball.
For six years the club played regularly at the Elysian Field, the two nines being made up from all the members present.
During 1858 a series of three games between picked nines from New York and Brooklyn was played on the Fashion Course, Long Island.
Up came another Revenue man named Thomas Nines to assist Davey, but in a few minutes Bartlett gave a loud whistle, whereupon Nines looked out seaward and exclaimed, "There's a boat.
At once Cedarville became, in his talk, one of the most formidable nines on the state's High School circuit.
Yet, in baseball, as in everything else, the record is reached only by nineslike the Gridley crowd, where the stiffest training, the best coaches and the best individual nerve and grit among the players are to be found.
Gardiner possessed one of the strongest school nines in the state.
But then they would get all the rest of the nines into good trim and harden up the muscles of Dr.
Now, I would like to see two ministerial nines in the field.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
