All the fashionable tennis, polo and automobile clubs make Del Monte their headquarters.
Marco Polo (book iii, xiii), explodes the belief in pigmies, which he declares to have been cleverly made for trade purposes.
The high prices obtainable for first-class polo ponies have given a stimulus to pony-breeding, and it may be said the foundations of the industry have been laid.
In London, judging by his size, he would have been put down as a polo pony.
At polo the Americans will go on hammering away till they produce a team that can stand unconquered at Hurlingham.
Polo grounds were laid out by the side of the links, croquet lawns appeared on one side of the club-house and lawn-tennis nets arose on the other, while traps for the clay-pigeon shooters were placed safely off in a corner.
Some of the proceedings of American polo teams have not coincided with what is ordinarily considered, in England, the behaviour of gentlemen in matters of amateur sport.
The dress for polo includes buckskin knee breeches, flannel or madras shirt with low turn-down collar, top riding boots, and polo cap.
Then he wheeled the horse in a sudden eddy, as polo ponies turn on the Indian plains, and rode away down the wind as if the Pass were full of devils in pursuit of him.
The British officer played at war in South Africa much in the same way that he hunted or played cricket or polo at home.
As he spoke he dodged an old shoe which the astute Polo projected from the studio window, and springing into the hansom drove rapidly away.
Polo told us how she was fitting up the little flat of three rooms with the assistance of her brother, and it certainly seemed as if the cloud which had shadowed her had drifted away.
Polo said there was a rag-picker under them, and a woman who had delirium tremens in the next room.
Illustration] Polo came on Monday and posed to the satisfaction of Professor Waite and of the class.
Illustration] Polo ran up and with her was her brother, and Mrs. Roseveldt left her seat on the stand, as soon as the mile run was decided, and joined us as we stood around Jim.
How, too, could they have entered, since Polo declared that she had locked the turret door when she came in that afternoon, and had left the key on a nail in the studio?
Polo helped her with her sewing, and Miss Billings promised to take her into partnership by and by.
The poor old lady was very lonely and was glad to take Polo in.
We had come through the ordeal on the whole quite triumphantly, but Polo had excited Miss Noakes's enmity.
Adelaide was thinking uneasily as she spoke of the cloud which shadowed Polo and her brother.
Milly begged, and Mr. Mudge assured her that such a thing was furthest from his intention, and in his turn he urged us not to allow Polo to imagine that we suspected her.
Polo was very happy and grateful, and the girls all liked her immensely.
Show me the nail," Winnie commanded promptly, and Pololed her to the studio.
But she kept her frenzy hidden in her breast and said, with all the inconsequence she could assume: "To-morrow they'll be playing the first international polo game.
She suddenly realized that for Willie and her to be seen at the polo games, when they had so ostentatiously set out on their honeymoon only two days before, would provoke a landslide of gossip.
She was mad for diversion, and, being herself a polo player of no small prowess, she was frantic to see the effort of the British team to wrest back the trophy.
Everybody on earth would be at the polo games, and she and Willie could not hope to escape attention.
The noseband method is generally adopted bypolo players.
Both in the matter of polo-playing and in that of choosing or breeding polo ponies, the volume is a certain authority.
The best substitute is, I think, a good polo pony, because the requirements of that game demand that the animal should be temperate, handy, and capable of being ridden with a slack rein.
When a pony is being measured for polo or racing, his legs should be placed in the position I have described, although his head may be lowered until his crest is parallel with the ground.
The Venetian ambassador, Polo Capello, refers to this rumor (si dice) in his well known Relation of September, 1500.
The Venetian ambassador Polo Capello reports how Cæsar Borgia stabbed the chamberlain Perotto through the Pope's robe, but Burchard makes no mention of the fact.
Marco Polo says that there are in that city Nestorian Christians.
These people do not extol Quincay less than Marco Polo does.
The Rajah came and went in his usual romantic way, played polo with his British friends, danced and gracefully flattered their wives as of yore.
He was rising from the table when the telephone rang, and, mindful of his afternoon engagement with Rita Kildair, he refused an invitation to join a party to the polo match.
Up till four or five, training for yourpolo match this afternoon?
In the heat of the summer the Polo centre is changed from New York to Newport, where most of the players are gathered.
Polo was for ages, and is still, the national game of these districts.
Illustration] The Polo family have always been great travellers.
The games that are played on the Polo Grounds in the upper part of New York city are usually very pretty sights.
I've got my eye on a job as secretary to a polo club.
If Stan got his game of poloonce in a while he must have just as good ponies as anybody else's.
The licentiate Polo de Ondegardo was appointed corregidor of Charcas by the president Gasca, and subsequently of Cuzco, where he remained for several years.
Lord Arthur was waiting when we arrived, on his chestnut polo pony, but Dora immediately scratched for the brilliant event in which they were paired.
The next day there was some hard fighting around Polo and Novaliches, where the insurgents held out for six hours against General McArthur's three brigades of cavalry and artillery.
Polo was my companion, Arthur took Maco, and Tim was accompanied by Kallolo.
Being somewhat warm, however, I rested on an overhanging bough before taking off my trousers to plunge in, while Polo stood near me.
Even Maco and Polo passed me, and I saw them make their way up the trunk of a tree which had fallen across the one on which the rest of the party were seated.
In the meantime I will labour at the hammers and axes, which Maco and Polo may complete while I am employed at the zabatana.
As Kallolo and Polo agreed to assist him, he replied that he would do his best to get along, though he still felt very weak.
My father and Arthur were engaged in some other way; and Tim had just got a load on his shoulders, when, hearing a shout, we looked round and saw Polo running at full speed towards us.
Both played polo and tennis with skill and kept the Station entertained by their high spirits and resourcefulness.
Not while he could ride a buck-jumper, handle a hog spear or a polo stick, and shoot straight.
Marco Polo records its production of good quality in many provinces of India and China.
Marco Polo tells the same story of the method of getting them there that is reported by Sindbad the Sailor.
The most famous of all mediaeval travellers in the East were the Venetian merchants Nicolo and Matteo Polo and their nephew Marco.
The standard edition of Marco Polo is that of Sir Henry Yule (2 vols.
This has just been reprinted with additional editorial notes by Henri Cordier, under the title, The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, etc.
The shorter races for ponies under polo height give an opportunity to the polo player, and the mayor-domo who cannot train his ponies for longer distances, to try the mettle of their mounts against outside and purer blood.
Then, to those lucky ones who have a polo club within reach, Sunday during the winter season is a day of real enjoyment.
On one occasion a winner of a polo pony race was objected to as over height.
Estancieros and mayor-domos have camp race-meetings once or twice yearly at all the larger polo clubs, and at Palermo and Hurlingham every class of society in Buenos Aires may be seen on the stands.
The class of horse entered varies between the three-quarter bred and the "criollo" with no pretence to breeding at all, who often carries off the short polo pony sprints.
There is opportunity for a little horse-dealing too, and many good polo ponies to send home or play in the tournaments have been picked up in this way.
Each lady takes her turn in providing tea on these polo Sundays, and there is great competition as to who makes the best cakes, especially as it often falls to the lady herself to make these luxuries.
Between these two extreme classes of racing in this country are the English camp race-meetings, which are held by all the larger polo clubs once or twice a year.
Colonel, this trip is just good sport--I love it: less danger than playing polo with these rotters.
From Governor General to the British officers who played polo with the Peshwa's son, they all accepted him as one of themselves; considered it good diplomacy that he had been sent to Oxford and made over.
Anyway Captain Barlow was there playing polo with Nana Sahib--one of the Prince's favourites; and waiting for a certain paper that would be sent to the Resident that would contain offers of an alliance with the Pindari Chief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
