He told the Berrisfords that he had to go to a riding test at Woolwich and wanted to see the varsity rugger match.
In smoking, eating and drinking he did all that might be expected of him, and he could play rugger amazingly well when he was not too lazy to turn out.
Leopard had suffered during the evening, for the almost certain loss of a ruggercap on which he had counted was a terrible blow to his pride and his ambitions.
This only encouraged Rendell to take the game very seriously, to turn out always, and to run like a hare down his wing, whereas Martin and Lawrence treated this rugger team with disdain and only played when it pleased them.
What eventually occurred was the appearance of the rugger secretary demanding the assistance of Lawrence 'just to stiffen up his pack' and the speedy release of Martin and Rendell owing to their dismal inefficiency.
He had played with distinction in the historic Elfreyan eleven of last summer: he was school sports champion: he had played rackets for Elfrey at Queen's Club: and now he was being tried as wing three-quarter in the rugger team.
But the Rugger roughs are all very bad men," Lonsdale protested.
Tommy," Lonsdale shouted, "I'm going to be a Rugger rough myself.
Rugger was Harley's great game, though the school produced many first-class cricketers; and the two games form the pivot of several stories.
Mr. Cleaver's knowledge of public school-boy character is extensive and profound; he has a ready fund of wit and humour at his call, and he can describe a Rugger match in a way that makes the blood tingle with excitement.
He plays Rugger up and down the passage with the boots all night and then he begins to make his bed.
I played in all the 'Varsity ruggermatches which were not scratched, and we finished up by beating the Wellingham Nomads after a muddy and desperate struggle.
The first was to ask me to play for the twenty against the Rugger XV.
Mrs. Faulkner fluttered round the room looking at photographs; the bare knees of the Rugger XV.
All the men at Oriel who know about things are either cricket or soccer blues, so I don't hear much about rugger there, though every one is nice enough and wants me to get into the XV.
I was able to play rugger for the college in nearly every match, for my days in the 'Varsity fifteen had ended.
Two days before Foster had been playing rugger for the 'Varsity against the London Scottish, and I had neither seen the game, because I had to play in a college match on the same afternoon, nor had I seen him since.
We were passing a college rugger match, and a pass which was palpably forward escaped the notice of the referee.
Afterwards I came across him when he played such a fine game for the Dulwich Rugger side.
There are a lot of Rugger men among the officers here, including an O.
I had a ripping game of Rugger a few days back, playing for the 19th Hussars against the Bedford Yeomanry.
For one thing I'm going to take up Rugger properly.
He hopes it will lick Bedford at Rugger and Malvern at cricket, but he rather bets it won't.
He was a Rugger Blue (I told you) and a three-quarter at that, so he went fairly fast.
And the other funny thing about it is that it was told to me by a huge Rugger Blue called Eric.
And his cup of happiness seemed almost running over when one afternoon after a game of rugger he overheard Lovelace minor say to Hunter: "That kid Caruthers wasn't half bad.
What good do you imagine you men will be in the trenches, if you can't last out a short game of rugger like this?
If you play badly at rugger you are asked what use you will be in a regiment.
It seemed only a matter of time for another try to send the House across with a lead of six points; but there is as much luck in rugger as in any game.
You think Rugger and such like the be–all and end–all of our existence.
Ginger regarded Beefy as an over–healthy animal, only fit for Rugger and philandering; while Beefy held the view that Ginger’s physical laziness was a menace to the company and the Empire.
All theRugger men are either dead, wounded, fighting, or training for commissions.
Teach the men and boys of the parish to play Rugger like sportsmen and not like cads, and you’ve taught them most of what a boy or man need learn, James Peters held.
It went on with Peters talking about his Rugger club, which bored Arnold.
The next day I actually turned out to rugger for our house, as left wing three-quarter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rugger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acrobatics; athletics; bathing; gymnastics; palaestra; sport; swimming; track
