He no longer feared the soaring punts that came tumbling to him from the clouds.
Keep your punts low and away from them so as to gain as much on the ground as you can.
To one side a little knot of coaches watched the result with critical anxiety, following the length of the punts in grim silence.
Another was in his place, plunging at the tackle that should have been his, racing down the field under punts that made the blood leap in his exiled body.
Then an exchange of puntsonce more drove them back to their twenty-five-yard line.
Sometimes the sea is too heavy for landing, and the galley punts lie off skimming about for hours.
The galley punts are powerful seaboats; when close reefed can stand a great deal of heavy weather, and are the marvel of the vessels in distress which they succour.
Punts were poling slowly up the Avon to the bridge; and at the outlets of the town, where the streets came down to the waterside among the weeds, little knots of men and serving-maids stood looking into the south and listening.
Those down below came clambering up, the punts came poling with a rush of foam, and a ripple ran along the edge of Stratford town like the wind through a field of wheat.
Pigs don't get in punts and pole themselves along the mere!
There was still a furious current running on the far side of the Toft, as, well provided with lanterns, the two punts pushed off.
Again by reason of the punts being fully afloat (instead of lying on the mud) a difficulty was added to the taking of quick shots, for on any sudden movement of its occupant, the tiny craft lurched almost to the capsizing point.
A punter, by the way, always punts from the side nearest the bank.
Punts vary from the heavy fishing ones to the narrow and unsteady racing craft.
Some people have straps on the outside of their punts for extra poles, but these are apt to be a nuisance in locks, and they spoil the trim and neat appearance of a punt.
The practice of paddling punts is often indulged in on crowded courses, such as Henley in the regatta week, but this I need hardly say is never done by good punters.
Usually there was some one on the field when Jimmy arrived who was quite willing to chase his punts and kick them back to him, and so he had already put in a good many hours of work outside the regular practice sessions.
She walks through us, holds us for downs, fools us on plays, out-punts us.
Jimmy surprised his audience, perhaps even Jimmy, by the length of his punts and the direction of them.
History repeated herself and every exchange of punts gave the Blue a good five yards of territory and before the period was many minutes old Parkinson was digging her cleats into her thirty-yard line.
Two attempts at the line and Kenwood punts far down the field.
Wirt and Captain Lyons made somepunts that brought applause and Walter Cole missed but one goal in six tries.
We'd be toddling along with a string of empty punts astern, when the regulation "doodlum-clink" would suddenly change to a series of terrific bangs.
But in the protecting shadows of the night the punts came closer.
But it might have been thepunts slippin' in from the harbours above and below," he thought, suddenly.
Captain Miller, at left end, was spectacular under punts and played his usual hard, steady game.
Next to the raft, and to be counted in direct descent from it, comes the whole class of flat-bottomed boats including punts and lighters.
Lonnegan rolled over on his elbows, and feasted his eyes on the sweep of the sleepy river, dotted with punts and wherries, its background of foliage in silhouette against the morning sky.
And so it went, neither side gaining her distance, both reverting to punts in the end.
By the way, you got off a couple of nice punts over there.
He handled the ball well, remembered signals, ran hard and fast, dodged fairly and caught punts nicely.
Toward the last of the period he was put to catching punts with a half-dozen other backfield candidates and performed to his own satisfaction at least.
For that reason he must practise constantly both with punts and drop kicks and be able to put the ball between the goal-posts from all angles and distances within reason.
In running back punts the quarter-back will often be used because he is sure in catching them, which is a matter of the greatest importance.
The ladies got out, while the men drew the punts across the rollers, taking them round to the farther landing.
By the Parks the river was dense with row-boats, punts and Canaders.
It seems impossible for the river full of craft to pack itself away along the sides, but in some fashion or other it is managed--skiffs, canoes, and punts all wedged together like sardines in a tin.
Then, perhaps, comes sharper weather still, and the punts can no longer move over the ice-bound waters.
Their host, a short young man with very fair hair and a round pink face, introduced himself and led the way to the Rollers, over which punts and canoes were dragged from the lower level of the Cherwell to the wider sweeps of the Isis.
Two or three times we had several punts out, but they did not pick up very many.
The punts were all cleared away and our beautiful whale-boats took their place.
We had a large number of punts on board and one was towed astern in the daytime and with it every seal was picked up.
One of the 'Greys' made a grab at it, but it was one of those twisting deceptive punts and bounded out of his hands down toward the southern line.
They ran down the field under punts until their breath came in gasps.
A cleaner sand is dredged from the middle or brought across in deep-laden punts from the many banks that render navigation next to impossible--a clean, hard sand, most excellent for building purposes.
It was one of the rough punts of a primeval simplicity of build used by the sand-workers of the Vistula.
Bob was kicking the ball forty and fifty yards at a kick and most of the punts Judd had to run in order to get under.
At first Judd was a bit reluctant to get in the path of a twisting football again but he gradually overcame this fear and found, to his delight, that he could catch some of the longest punts with ease.
And from dawn to dark the punts of Jug Cove float in the midst of these terrors.
It chanced one summer dawn, however, when the sky was flushed with tender light, and the shadows were trooping westward, and the sea was placid, that the punts of Timothy Yule and Jehoshaphat Rudd went side by side to the Tombstone grounds.
The narrow creek adjacent to the "Red Lion" is in frequent request as a harbour for punts and small craft in general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
