A punting duel followed, with the advantage slightly in favor of Marshall, though both Mullane and Jeffries managed to hold up their end with considerable honor.
Those with suits shifted to the basement, where a shower bath and lockers had been installed, while the others tramped directly to the field back of the schoolhouse, to begin their work with punting and drop-kicking.
We may as well begin our practice," he said, "by lining up on both sides of the playground and punting the ball back and forth.
The first period was a bitterly contested punting duel in which Rollins, and, later, St. Clair came off second best.
So far the teams had proved evenly matched in all departments, with a possible slight superiority in punting belonging to the visitors.
And so the spectators were treated to a very pretty punting exhibition by both teams, for, wisely or unwisely, Southby accepted the challenge and punted almost as often as her adversary.
St. Clair and Martin divided the punting between them and together they managed to outmatch the efforts of the Southby kicker.
Below Iffley, indeed, there is as much clear punting as you could desire, and here you are in the full current of Thames pleasure-boats.
The towing-path skirts the water, so that when you are tired of punting you can get out and tow your craft.
There are no pleasure parties punting about that stretch.
Boats bump and lead to coarse ungracious quarrels; rowing can be curiously fatiguing; punting involves dreadful indignities.
They conceive of themselves here, rowing swiftly and gracefully, punting beautifully, brandishing boat-hooks with ease and charm.
Punting practice went on for five minutes or so, and then, after a brief signal drill between the First and Second elevens, the coach called both teams to the middle of the field.
Let's have a little punting and see if you backs can hold the ball to-day.
I should be in despair if you lost; but if you abstain frompunting you will not lose, though you may let yourself be robbed.
In all double punting little or no steering should be required if both work well together.
At the Maidenhead and Taplow Town Regatta there is a Lady's and Gentleman's Double Punting Race, and there is some talk of a Ladies' Punting Championship competition being inaugurated at Maidenhead.
In spite of the paucity of punting races for ladies, however, there are several ladies in various parts of the Thames whose style and speed have won for them something more than local renown.
A girl was punting past, there was no splashing, no scramble, apparently no effort.
Of the different styles of punting I shall speak more fully later on.
As in rowing and sculling the work in punting is distributed all over the body, and does not only exercise the arm, as so many beginners imagine.
The Henley course, for instance, is very deep all the way along the meadow side, even quite near the bank, therefore a long pole is necessary, and these are apt to be very tiring and heavy when punting all day.
Hewitt, who in '91 won the Ladies' Punting Competition at the Hampton Court and Thames Ditton Aquatic Sports.
First of all they must not be discouraged by the inevitable clumsiness of their first endeavours, the ease and grace of punting comes only after much experience.
Nothing looks so bad as to see two persons double punting when quite regardless as to time.
Frank put in a great deal of time under the direction of the punting coach, and made good progress at that department of the game, but at drop-kicking he had little opportunity.
No human beings could continue the pace set in that first half, and the play settled into a punting duel between Porter and his opponent, with neither team able to gain much by straight rushing.
He had been punting too slowly; the other line could surely get through and block his kick, and there were only two minutes to play.
Ashley had played his usual hard, consistent game, straining every muscle, punting longer and higher than ever before, but missing stupidly some golden chances, the chances Blake would never have let slip by.
A masquer dressed in the Venetian style was punting on a single card, going fifty sequins paroli and paix de paroli, in my fashion.
Certainly I should, unless he pays me first, otherwise he would be punting with my money.
But you would have no objection to hispunting with ready money.
It was Vretson--no less--who drove his talented punting toe into the pigskin.
Be that as it may, they accepted the challenge, if challenge it was, and a punting duel ensued, with no noteworthy fortunes falling to either eleven.
There used to be an annualpunting race, but punting was forbidden after 1851.
My life in Venice would have been pleasant and happy, if I could have abstained from punting at basset.
Watson excelled in rushing, and Parker's punting was strong and reliable.
Parker's punting and the fine defense of Saul, Warren, and Beardsell kept the score down to sixteen points.
Maguire's punting and rushing, which were entirely individual, were the only good offensive work done by Boston.
While they were eating, the hunter Punta Punting came.
When Punta Punting heard Noet Noen's words, he shot his arrow, though he could not see the object he was aiming at.
This time the punting duel was resumed until, well within Yale territory, Cockerell looked around and gave the signal for attack.
For an hour he was kept at his punting in the open and behind the lines, while the scrubs, reenforced by every available veteran, swarmed through the line, seeking to block his kicks.
Defn: A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
Punting he found was difficult, but not impossible, and towards four o'clock he succeeded in conveying a second passenger across the sundering flood from the inn to the unknown.
He was just about to take the punting pole in hand, when Bainton's figure suddenly emerged from the shrubbery.
There was a perfect reach for punting just here, and many people came down to occupy the bungalows built on the opposite bank to that on which Greenriver stood.
Punting alone was forbidden, but seeing Toni's disappointment, her husband had purchased for her a stout little dinghy in which she was perfectly safe, and this same craft was a source of delight to its owner.
Another workman next receives it at the other end, upon an iron rod, called a punt, or punting iron, when the blowing iron is detached.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
