His rackets were on his feet now and he pushed along briskly over the pallid snow, through the whispering dark.
His rackets and a light pack were on his back and his pockets were stuffed with food and a flask of rum.
Two faults were not enough for them; the holes in their rackets were legion, and their legs never went the way they wanted.
At the summons of the great bell, to come and hear the lists read in the Hall, fellows dropped collars and coats, rackets and rods, boots and bookstand rushed for a front seat.
Give yourrackets to these two; they're going to play against Cazenove and Wade.
The Lawrences acquiesced, and after a search for balls and rackets they wandered down to the courts.
I play rackets at Ranelagh most mornings, and I bought a couple of hacks and ride occasionally in the park before you're out of bed.
John--who had won a hard match atrackets a few days before against a more experienced opponent simply because of his perfect condition--was breathing hard.
In all the city whose rackets he was developing and consolidating, Brink was the only man who resisted Big Jake's civic enterprise--and got away with it!
Pretty soon the bears will be wearing racketsin the summer to k-keep out of his way.
We had to take our rackets off, for it was so rocky and uneven that we could not use them.
Tie your rackets on behind and sit in the bottom of the sleigh, Ben.
Holding our rackets under our left arms and our guns in our right hands, we followed over the crest of the hill, along the high land, and then down the slope.
We fastened on our rackets and started to the southwest, where there was little likelihood that we should be disturbed by Indians.
First we went along one side of the hill, then over it, and we had to take off our rackets again.
When it was dark we put on our rackets and set out again.
As we had rackets on, and the snow was deep, we could outrun the deer, and we killed the whole herd--twelve in all.
I started up a side hill, where his rackets would not give him an advantage.
The snow clung to his rackets in huge balls and after repeated efforts he loosened the thongs and stepped on the melting snow, into which he promptly sank to his middle.
The sleds pulled hard, so that the dogs clawed for footing, and the snowshoes were placed conveniently upon the top of the packs, for soon the rackets would be necessary in the fast deepening snow.
Regarding Shakespeare’s justification for the technical terms used by him, Mr. Marshall judiciously remarks: “It is certain that tennis was played and that rackets were used in the time of Henry V.
It was difficult and tiring enough as it was to prevent the rackets sliding, though without them we could not possibly have advanced in such snow.
If was a relief at length to reach level snow, to don our rackets again and to follow a coolie bursting with energy now sent first to tread a path.
My conductors, who undertook to procure wood, were buried as high as their waists in snow, and even with their rackets they sunk up to their knees.
I ordered one of my soldiers to go with hisrackets to meet this Koriac, and to ask him whence they came, whither they were bound, if they knew any thing relative to M.
Having broader feet, they do not sink so much as the dogs, and have in this respect the advantage, as there is no necessity of going before them with rackets to clear the way.
Our rackets made us retreat instead of advancing, and we were obliged to take them off, and ascend by the help of our hands and feet.
Desirous of seeing a hot spring which Oumiavin pointed out to me in the neighbourhood, I put on my rackets to cross on foot a small wood, by the side of which it forms a stream three fathom wide, which pours itself into the Tavatoma.
Our windows are supported on decrepit tennis rackets and worn-out hearth brushes; the blinds refuse to go up or down; the chairs have weak backs or legs; the door knobs are disassociated from their handles.
Met two Frenchmen of the North West Company with about one hundred and eighty pounds on each of their backs, with rackets [snowshoes] on; they informed me that Mr. Grant had gone on with the Frenchmen.
Mr. Grant fell through the ice with his rackets on, and could not have got out without assistance.
This was the first time I marched onrackets [snowshoes].
Illustration] In this illustration we find the prisoners by no means moody, but playing at rackets and skittles.
They walked off the ground together, their rackets under their arms, the flush of a well-contested fight on their handsome faces.
Apparently, his reputation had gone ahead of him, since most of the hoodlums had decided pickings would be easier on some beat where the cops had their own secret rackets to attend to, instead of head busting.
And if any of the other cops had private rackets of their own, Izzy was undoubtedly the man to find it out, and use the information.
It wasn't poor enough to offer the universal desperation that gave the gang hoodlums protective coloring, nor rich enough to have major rackets of its own.
Bourne and Vercoe were staying at school a week later than we, for the rackets did not come off until our holidays had commenced.
I don't expect many finalists, at rackets anyhow, turn up with black eyes.
The two leaders in each group held rackets made of vermicelli, while the two couples standing behind held rackets made of stretched parchment.
While the ball was hanging thus, the two players who had the rackets of parchment tossed up to decide which of the two should send the ball back.
Kelly tried to work one of the 'fellow convict' rackets on me, but I made no confessions.
The game is played with a rubber ball, and rackets made by stringing gut on a wooden frame.
The rackets used in court tennis have long handles and a large face.
They cost almost any price up to eight dollars, which will buy the very best rackets made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rackets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
