They were cleaning pails and carrying in water from a green court or playground in front of the house, which some of the able-bodied men of the place were busy in enclosing.
This way of hoisting or carrying is still used by schoolboys when they desire to honour a boy who has distinguished himself in the playground or schoolroom.
When everything is ready, a rush across the playground is made by the players.
In stormy weather they were all smothered in clouds and spray, and showers of salt scud torn from the tops of the waves came flying over the playground wall.
It is in the afternoon, however, from 5 o’clock or thereabouts, and on into the evening, that the cuckoo playground is best worth visiting.
Sanders' face was the playground of conflicting emotions as he stood staring at her.
The old man's face was theplayground of conflcting impulses.
In the playground the children were shouting at the top of their voices.
The boys were not yet in theplayground by the time I was already working hard in my room.
He had long since become too valuable in the playground to be left to follow his own devices.
I wonder how it is there is so little noise from the playground here," said Hugh.
On Friday then, his paper was ruled, and he had only to run across the playground to borrow Firth's penknife, and then nothing should delay his letter.
It was because some of the boys were within hearing, leaning over the pales which separated the playground from the road.
When Dale had a theme to write, the two boys often walked up and down the playground for half an hour together, talking the subject over, and telling of anything they had heard or read upon it.
In such areas a rotten stench ruled over the otherwise pervasive fumes of car exhausts, creating what seemed a playground for the generation of a killing plague.
We had stopped at a playground to rest on the swings after a bike ride.
From the school playground the boys loved to watch the ships at sea and guess where they were bound.
On the playground he let others do the talking, content to make his reply when he had his turn at the bat--or not at all.
At the back a large extent of grass playground stretches out westward, and at the end of this there is a grove of trees.
Away to the east stretches of rolling green form a joyous playground for all at holiday times, but are bare and arid compared with the West Heath.
In England, boys begin swaggering about their social position as soon as they leave the nursery, and if you would have some fun, you should follow groups of public school-boys in the playground or on their way home.
His favorite pastime in the playground is to teach little boys how to play marbles.
In the midst of their hillside ring of necessary modernity, the people of the Great City had kept their playground inviolate.
Where in the playground you will be as solitary as if you were in the desert, in school you will be a class by yourself, and even in church on Sundays you will feel hopelessly out in the cold among your fellow-worshippers?
When Oliver and Wraysford appeared in boating flannels in theplayground they created as much sensation as if they had been ghosts.
If they would take his advice, they would avoid the playground during the present season, and by all means withdraw their candidate for the Nightingale Scholarship, as he was certain to be beaten by boys in a lower form.
The crowds of boys in the playground frightened him, and even the little boys inspired him with awe.
At length he seemed to come to a satisfactory decision, and, naturally exhausted by such severe mental exertion, Loman quitted his study and sought in the playground the fresh air and diversion he so much needed.
He composted, edited, and typed this paper, issued at intervals, and it had a regular playground circulation.
But if the boys didn't have any more fun with Bony, they did with the ball game going on between the two over in the playground corner, which they soon spied, and off they rushed there.
The playground was empty, for the boys were either engaged with their friends, or else departing; and Louis, from his little nook, saw many vehicles of different descriptions drive away from the door.
As Hamilton scarcely allowed himself time to run once round the playground in the day, it cannot be supposed that even had he condescended to notice Louis he would have found much time to attend to him.
Hamilton was on the point of hazarding a remark on the impossibility of Frank's contemplating such a thing, when they turned a corner of the lane that brought them in sight of the playground wall and the farm-yard opposite.
Ferrers could not endure it--he left the circle and walked about the playground alone, full of remorse, thinking over every plan he had formed for making amends to Louis for all.
Obedient to his instructions, Norman looked, and saw three boys drop down one after another from the branch of a tree, that had evidently assisted their descent from the playground wall, and then run across the playground.
That day, when the boys returned from their walk, they entered at the back of the playground from a lane, on the opposite side of which lay some fields belonging to Dr.
They had by this time reached the playground gates, and were here overtaken by Frank Digby, who had before engaged to be one of the party.
Her wild birds sing the same sweet stave, Her lights and airs are given Alike to playground and the grave; And over both is Heaven.
Has life's infancy only been provided for, and beyond this poor nursery-chamber of Time is there no playground for the soul's youth, no broad fields for its manhood?
The Old English University is a playground for the governing class.
Certainly if there is a governing class, let there be a playground for the governing class.
If the sensitive man on the Outlook does not like the phrase, "Playground of the rich," I can suggest a phrase that describes such a place as Oxford perhaps with more precision.
Chapter 9 By the time Mrs. Stogbuchner came out to the playground to call her class, Baartock had almost forgotten how hungry he was.
Leaving his tray, he went out the door to the playground to find Jason.
She took her class out to theplayground and Mr. Blevis is trying to get rid of the wasps.
As there came to Froebel an inspiration to found a system of education in which the playground should be made a means of forming character when life was in the clay, so to young Franklin came a desire to make sports and pastimes useful.
The free will of a boy on the playground is likely to present a picture of his leading traits of character.
In addition Pera shelters all the Greeks and Armenians of the city and its narrow, crooked streets are the playground and dwelling-place of a nondescript people which, for lack of better name, people have agreed to call “Levantines.
They went along a hedge, through which a yard planted with trees, a few shrubs, a playground and a white house were just visible.
He went along the little playground of the school.
