I myself could go on to that common that is at this moment before me, and join that game of rounderswith the most intense delight.
What the tamer then did was the most extraordinary performance which Rounders had ever seen, and sent thrills of admiration down his spinal column.
There were conventional barriers between a keeper and a rider, but Rounders by tact and good looks got over them, and whispered sweet nonsense in the porches of Miss Stubbs's willing ear.
I acknowledge it--I was presumptuous and wanted tapping," answeredRounders with proper humility.
Reciprocity of kindness is a principle of nature which Rounders had observed, and in which he had some faith, notwithstanding the pessimist views of Brinton.
For two or three weeks Rounders continued to go through a performance like the initiatory one, but at the end of that time his ambition moved him to do something more.
The men with the spears attacked him from behind, and as the animal turned for a moment to face them, Rounders took advantage of it to clutch Brinton, drag him to the door, and out of the cage.
Quick as a flash, Rounders seized the magic wand, burst open the little door, and made a lunge at the brute on top of the fallen man.
When Rounders discovered this tenderness in the heart of the tamer, he thought of Samson and Delilah, and wondered if something of the kind could not be done with natural comeliness instead of a pair of scissors.
He simply became indifferent, and while he was in this state, Rounders enticed him into another cage by the display of a piece of meat, and as soon as he got him in, he jumped out and locked the door.
Here Rounders strode toward him with his whip and gave him a cut, returned to the middle of the cage, and stamped his foot as he had seen Brinton do.
Rounders asked him if he meant to say that all lions were vicious.
Rounders stamped his foot again and raised his whip; then Pompey jumped over his shoulder and up and down the ends of the car in the traditional fashion.
Rounders threw him a piece, which he seized with the voracity common to lions, and began to eat, growling between each bite.
He asked Rounders to sit down alongside of him, as he could not speak loud, and he wanted to reserve his strength.
In rounders every player on the side must be put out before the other side can come in, while in base-ball from time immemorial the rule has been "three out, all out.
It is not my intention to declare the old game of rounders a myth.
In rounders the bases are five in number and the field a pentagon in shape.
No such feature as this was ever heard of in base-ball, yet, as said, it is the characteristic which gives to rounders its name, and any derivation of that game must certainly have preserved it.
This town-ball was so nearly like roundersthat one must have been the prototype of the other, but town- ball and base-ball were two very different games.
But if base-ball is neither sprung from rounders nor taken bodily from another English game, what is its origin?
The first standard English writer to speak of rounders is "Stonehenge" in his Manual of Sports, London, 1856.
In rounders the score is reckoned by counting one for each base made, and some of the authorities say the run is completed when the runner has reached the base next on the left of the one started from.
In base-ball nine men constitute a side, while in roundersthere may be any number over three.
There is a fair and foul hit in base-ball, while in rounders no such thing is known.
Of course I would have done everything in my power to give Rounders things to eat that he liked, but I did not know what to do.
But Rounders was Rounders, and I did not allow my irritation to continue.
On the fourth day of his visit, after the morning mail had been brought to us by Isaac, Rounders came to me and told me he had just received a letter which would make it necessary for him to go home that afternoon.
Rounders arrived according to schedule, and I met him at the gate, and explained that my wife insisted it would be incongruous for a carriage to drive up to the cot.
Very well,' said I; 'this is your picnic, and we will have Rounders and his wife.
In consequence of this promise, Monsieur Isadore, having withdrawn a deposit of several thousand dollars from one of the trust companies with which Rounders was connected, consented to remain in my household.
I thought our meals were remarkably good, and if Mr. Rounders did not like them, as I sometimes thought he did not, I believed it was because he could not help putting on airs even to us.
According to some authorities it is derived from the old English game of rounders (q.
Some of the all-rounders were grey-headed men, but there was about them all a freshness and ruddiness which showed that their somewhat severe regimen agreed with them.
Intellectual interests are delightful, and we want her to have them, but they hardly supply the place of tennis and rounders at eleven years of age.
Tennis and croquet were in full swing, and the younger ones amused themselves withrounders and hide-and-seek.
Fate had placed him, bound and helpless, in a country where they called baseball Rounders and played it with a soft ball.
Jimmy, do you know they call baseball Rounders in this country, and children play it with a soft ball!
Please: why so many criminal rounders in and out of your prison houses?
That country limps to the dogs which essays to hold murderous rounders in check by aesthesia.
Bella Lyndon had never worn stays; playing rounders so splendidly, lying on the grass between the games with her arms under her head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rounders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
