Had he possessed the physique of our punter of the rapids, or of our conductor, now attending to his horses at the farm, he could have shouldered me like a baby.
Mike made a mental note of this fact and decided to investigate later, as a good punter was very hard to find.
The performance of the Harvard 1908 team was the more remarkable because Burr, who was the captain and the great punter at that time, had been injured and the team was without his services.
Most brilliant of all, perhaps, was Worth Bagley, a marvelous punterand great fighter.
And for this reason he soon found the sphere of activity to which the punter is confined too narrow.
The cards might be dealt so as not to allow the punterany winning throughout the pack; and it was in the power of the dealer to let the punter have as many winnings as he thought convenient, and no more!
Viscount Rooster had not been two hours in bed, when the Count de Punter (formerly of the Black Jaegers) waited upon him upon the part of M.
Excellency, who along with Baron von Punter and Tagrag, used very seldom to miss coming to our box.
Chicot is my name of baptism," says the Baron; "Baron Chicot dePunter is my name.
Each punter continues to hold the cards for his side so long as he wins.
If the banker's point is the better, the stakes of the punter become the property of the bank.
Should the cards of anypunter amount to exactly twenty-one, he will receive double the amount of his stake.
This will ensure both the money being placed exactly as the punter desires, and the receipt of any winnings, without disputes on the part of other players.
In actual play, however, the punter may insure against the Refait by paying a premium of 1 per cent.
If the punters' point is the better, the banker (or the croupier for him) pays each punter the amount of his stake.
Any player may "go bank," the first claim to do so belonging to the punter immediately on the right of the banker; the next to the player on his left, and so on alternatively in regular order.
The reader will please notice that this is theoretically exactly the same thing as if the punter halved his stake with the Banker, and this he is allowed to do if he chooses.
Each punter having made his stake, the banker deals three cards, the first to the player on his right, the second to the player on his left, and the third to himself; then three more in like manner.
At the point of five, and no other, is it optional to the punter whether to take a card or not; nobody has the right to advise him, or to remark upon his decision.
She was fully convinced of her ability to rise to equal heights with the other stars--at all events as far as those constellations, Mrs. Punter and Jessie, were concerned.
A quarrel with Mr. Punter had resulted, which ended by the man ruthlessly removing his piano.
Mr. Punter had gone to great expense to procure her services.
Mrs. Punter slouched on ahead, and Evarne followed to another room at the rear of the house.
Would Mr. Punter try to reclaim any of his stage belongings?
Him and Mrs. Punter and the kids caught the five-to-ten to Glasgow.
Evarne was almost inclined to believe that she had come to Scotland on a wild-goose chase, for there seemed to exist no such address as that with which Mr. Punter had headed his letters.
It was now a generally known secret that Mr. Punter was unable to pay the nine pounds owing for the hire of the hall.
She had asked Mr. Punter to advance a portion of her first week's salary, and had been refused.
After much argument, appeals, and threats, Mr. Punter had been brought to promise that the takings on that evening should be divided amidst the company after the show.
Lorimer recognized the futility of pitting her punteragainst Alton’s in the circumstances, but, with her back to her goal, there was no help for it after two desperate rushes had been stopped for five yards, and again the ball sailed off.
When Mart picked me to become a punter he picked a most acidulous lime!
The croupier slips the blade of his huge paper-knife underneath the two cards which are on either side of the dealer, and deposits them, unexposed, with marvellous adroitness, before the punter on either side whose turn it is to play.
The dealer has an eight and king, the punter a five and three.
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
We'll either get that, or I know a jolly little boat Punter has for sale at Teddington, with a towing-line and double sculls, and a locker under the stern seat for grub.
In one of these punt chases at Cowes the punter had several times plunged into the sea, and amid shouts and cheers he was always closely followed by one of his chasers who swam almost equally well.
With one moment of hesitation the punter took a splendid “header” into the sea, and as he was thus descending from the paddle-box the gun filed, showing that the ten minutes had expired.
For "pricking," the punter assumes a stationary position in the stern, about a third of the way up the punt and facing the bow, while all the weight to be carried is put in front of the punter.
The punter must not go too far forward up the bow or she will stop the "way" of the punt.
The strongest punter should be at the back, if there be any difference.
A good punter can dress as she pleases, but all beginners get wet; no one can teach them how to avoid this until they have acquired a certain style.
This enables the punter to keep an upright position, and exert more force than if the pole were held far away from the punt.
To do this the punter may stand in various ways, but I consider the best is for both punters to stand in the stern, almost back to back, one a little in advance of the other, to set the stroke.
The advantage of this is that the punter is able to push twice without taking the pole out of the water, and a longer swing of the body is accordingly obtained.
A punt can be stopped dead by reversing the pole--not to the opposite side of the punt, but by throwing it in in the opposite direction to that in which the punter is pushing.
It should be taken out in two movements in shallow water, so that a fast punter would be ready to throw in her pole for the next push before a punter with a slow recovery had taken her pole out of the water.
Really the most important item to a punter is the pole, though many inexperienced people give all their attention to their punts, while they think almost any pole will do, in which they are very much mistaken.
Miss Punter was a great friend of Augusta Mildmay, and was watching her friend's broken heart with intense interest.
Upon my word, for a very young creature I never saw such impudence as that woman's," said a certain Miss Punter to Augusta Mildmay.
Give me my revenge,” he implored, and for three days and three nights, with periodical adjournments for a tub, this amiable punter continued giving the revenge.
Old Mahan, who in his youth had been a well-known duellist, had at this period simmered down to a fiery punter with a shiny forehead that extended to the nape of his neck, and a grizzly fringe in the vicinity of his ears.
Not only was there no such thing as off-side, but one of the chief features consisted in batting the ball with the fist, at which many became sufficiently expert to drive the ball almost as far as the ordinary punter now kicks it.
After all, while Mawson was rather a better punter and Moncks was shiftier in a broken field, neither was unbeatable, and Willard kept that fact resolutely in mind and worked hard.
Gadsden, you'll remember, was our long punter and we'd mapped out a kicking game.
On the other hand, if a punt comes, as it is likely to nine times in ten, this defence puts three men where they ought to be able to sift through in time to hurry the punter if not to actually block the kick.
Chancellor will sometimes punt from ordinary formation to fool you, but not often, for her punter likes plenty of room.
The lucky punter went off with his pockets full of gold, and Medini, affecting high spirits, which were very much out of place, swore his victory should cost him dear.
On examining the face of the punter who had made these ravages I guessed the game.
At the end of the deal Goudar told me that this punter was a rich Frenchman who had been introduced by Medini.
The first and the smaller is that all he has got to attend to is not to deal wrongly, which is a very small matter to an habitual player; and all the time the punter has to rack his brains on the chances of one card or another coming out.
The banker places before him the sum he wishes to stake and the punters do likewise, unless a punter desires to go bank, signifying his intention by saying, Banco!
Each punter looks at his cards, and any one having 8 or 9 turns his card up and announces it, the hand then being at an end.
The player having the highest stake plays for both punters, and if the card turned is better than that of the banker, the latter pays each punter the amount of his stake.
Farview had a punter that could do fifty yards easily, and a wind would lengthen his kicks frightfully.
