Its failure not alone damned the chance of the Sinn Fein policy sweeping the country--which chance had looked a sporting one--but it damped the enthusiasm of the individual Sinn Feiners and arrested the movement.
He is commodore of the Castle Yacht Club, a sporting little racing club on the South Coast, where races take place every Saturday and often twice a week.
His articles in the "Nineteenth Century Review" on moose and caribou hunting, and his stories of animal life, drafted on the spot, were much appreciated in sporting circles.
The best sporting dog in Athabasca," he said promptly, but without any resentment.
Watusk, still sporting the frock coat and the finger-rings, had improved his costume by the addition of a battered silk hat with a chaplet of red paper roses around the brim.
There are a variety of sporting goods stores, but Ryerson and Hapley split forty-five per cent of the trade and ninety per cent of the most desirable trade.
Jeff noted five more dealers in antiques, sixsporting goods stores and six shops chosen at random which, from their listings, seemed to cater to exclusive trade.
There were foursporting goods stores still on his list, but Jeff passed the first because its windows were dirty and the second because it advertised a bargain sale.
Sweet to it is sporting news, but "aristocratic sporting news" is sweeter still.
Sir Nicholas and all the sporting gentlemen of County Galway were there, whispering with each other, having collected themselves in crowds much bigger than usual.
Sir Nicholas is known all through the West of Ireland, as a sporting man, and is held in high esteem.
The maxims of the sporting world are singularly applicable to the practice before us.
Following in the train of this respectable cortege, I reached the market-house, upon the steps of which several 'sporting gentlemen' of a higher order were assembled.
Yes, Hinton, these are my sporting friends, sipping my wine while they plot my ruin.
They are as opposed to the self-possessed, slangy, sporting English schoolgirl with her multifarious ambitions as can well be imagined.
The German sporting instinct was there sure enough, undeveloped and somewhat dormant it may be, but none the less ready to germinate under favourable conditions.
They are unable to grasp the sporting idea, which, after attempted explanation, they believe to be a figment of the English imagination.
Funny how one changes: I should just love it if he did it again now, because it’s so jolly sporting of him to try to bowl at all.
Thereafter he had taken the Sporting and Dramatic from the reading-room, against all rules, and retired to Adams’s study to spend a cosy time before the fire.
You were in the big turkish rocker, smoking one of the cigars you are smoking now and reading the Sporting Times.
It happened that the manager of the sporting goods store in Melbourne was a young American who believed in the efficacy of "follow up" letters.
But so far the sporting simile presented itself to him.
Mr. John Briggs, drinking a mug of ale and wondering who was winning a light weight contest at the National Sporting Club, was resting in his sitting-room.
My new master was what is called a sporting character, very fond of the turf, upon which he was not very fortunate.
Two forms were conspicuous in it; that of the successful bruiser, and of his friend and backer, the sportinggentleman of my acquaintance.
A sporting gentleman, well known in the place from which I come.
Writing of George Duncan, the famous young professional golfer, during the first half of the big foursome at Burhill, a greatsporting paper said that a certain mashie shot was a "crude stroke.
He was formerlysporting editor of the Boston Post, and is now sporting editor of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Evening Gazette.
Subsequently he became a sporting news writer on various Eastern newspapers, and while thus engaged he has served on newspaper baseball teams.
Here was no thrill of gallantry and no sporting risk.
It is inspired by an impulse that takes men out of themselves and by a certain spirit of challenge to fate that every one with a sporting instinct loves to take.
Knowing, however, that the child was fond of sporting on the seashore, she hastened thither as fast as she could, and there beheld the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs peeping over a wave.
A retrospect into history will show that the most efficient armies were those in which the sporting instinct was non-existent.
The subscription room—a well proportioned one—was designed by Mr. George Tattersall, author of “Sporting Architecture.
For many years a man named Hicks, a “sporting character,” kept the place, and George IV.
In 1775 frequent advertisements of Tattersall’s show that his business rapidly progressed, and his establishment soon became the head-quarters of the sporting world.
The perfection of modern breech-loading rifles and other sporting fire-arms in general.
The fashion of sporting signet-rings is not so general, perhaps, as it was a little while since, but it still retains a place among the minutiae of our present theme.
The very children, sporting like so many birds of gorgeous plumage, and musical tones, in the public gardens and promenades, prattle of matters interesting to them, with a graceful vivacity nowhere else to be seen.
He had already made two sporting trips to Central Africa after big game, and rented a large shooting estate near Brunswick.
But as soon as the shades of night fell, these harmless sporting accessories were changed by some mysterious and malign agency into grizzly bears, and grizzly bears are notoriously the fiercest of their species.
It doesn't seem quite sporting to me, all this magic stuff, you know.
I've had enough of sporting around, and I'm going to quit it and settle down.
Personally, though, I believe he was, and that sooner or later he'll choose what you call the sporting end.
I call it a first-class sporting proposition, and he's dead right on one point.
It isn't pleasant to think of your finish if you chose the sportingend of the thing and then there turned out to be a God after all.
Farther back in the line Lady May, sporting the red and white of Palmer's stable, was doing her utmost to pull her jockey's arms off, and her dainty hoofs seemed scarcely to touch the track as she pranced and curvetted by the grandstand.
And, after a pause, he added meditatively: "The sporting end.
The military element is large enough to give it an athletic and sporting character, and to the girls who are popular a summer at Simla is one prolonged picnic.
They have their own committees looking after these things, which is a healthful diversion; and the institute is the headquarters of all their sporting organizations and committees.
From the question of sporting lands to that of the game laws is a very short step.
