There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate.
He continues as active as ever, and the constant attendant on Digby in all ruralsports whenever the young heir pays a visit to his home.
He recollected how very slow he had always thought the life there--the hours were so regular and early, and he had no field-sports of any kind to indulge in.
He'll direct all our games in the evening, and settle about all the sports in the morning for you boys.
It seems too bad that boys' best sports should be so dangerous, doesn't it?
Be careful not to risk lowering Gridley's standard in sports through recklessness.
You want to see Gridley High School win more laurels insports and athletics?
There is no modern encyclopaedia to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of the various British Sports and Pastimes, can turn for information.
For indeed the sports and pastimes of a people are no insignificant product of its national spirit, and react to no small degree upon national character.
The spirit of emulation and the pride of skill, and the desire of obtaining healthy exercise for its own sake, have been among the principal causes which have converted into sports and pastimes man's means and methods of locomotion.
Of course thesesports were interdicted; but the use of the river for any purpose whatever was so far forbidden that masters must be shirked in going to or coming from it, and the river itself was out of bounds.
She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.
She did not know that Edward had spent almost the whole of that day in the joyous sports natural to his age, and that it had been many weary days and nights since Ellen had quitted her mother's room.
The swell flashes a rum prad: the e gentleman sports a fine horse.
He sports a Nescio; he pretends not to understand any thing.
To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style: as the swell's rattler and prads are bang up prime; the gentleman sports an elegant carriage and fine horses.
He sports an Aegrotat, he is sick, and unable to attend Chapel.
The swell flashes a rum thimble; the gentleman sports a fine watch.
He delighted in fun and frolic and sports of all kinds, and was at the head of everything.
To his latest days he urged boys to practise manly sports and exercises of all kinds.
Time carries his secrets away with him, and leaves his enigmas as sports for human knowledge.
Despair not, Hope on, though things unseen may baffle thy research; Mysterious sports we hail beyond the veil: Despair not.
Perhaps returned to Zábul's verdant bowers, He undisturbed enjoys his peaceful hours, The vernal banquets may constrain his stay, And rural sports invite prolonged delay.
In the meantime, however, the pits were dug, and the work of destruction in progress, and Rustem was now invited to share the sports of the forest.
Gushtásp remained two years his guest, enjoying all kinds of recreation, and particularly the sports of the field and the forests.
In that volume, the last dealing with Dick Prescott's high school days, the value of sports and the worth of honor and faithful work will be set forth as strongly as lies within the power of the narrator of these events.
Amongst other things, there were going to be some sports at Rutton today week, and his nevvy was going to try and win the cup for what the Oldest Inhabitant vaguely described as 'a race'.
The writer says that he saw you, that he actually spoke to you, at the athletic sports at Rutton yesterday.
The lunatic's going in for the strangers' mile at some sports at Rutton next week.
And as there are sports there,' said Tony, 'the Old Man is certain to put Rutton specially out of bounds for that day.
The day of the sports arrived, and the Babe, meeting Charteris at Merevale's gate, made a last attempt to head him off from his purpose.
The sports at St Austin's were decorous to a degree.
The three last are very probably only sports of canina.
The old cottages used to stand round in an irregular amphitheatre, some with poplars before them, and the name of Maypole-field (now allotments) testifies to there having been sports there before the memory of the present man.
As long as war is absent, and we "live at home at ease," so long will our sports and pastimes flourish and increase.
The Whitsuntide sportswere always a great speciality on Cotswold, and continue to the present day, though in a somewhat modified form.
Fozbrooke tells us that the Whitsuntide sports are the floralia of the Romans.
The "Annalia Dubrensia" contain many verses about thesesports by the hand of Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, and others.
Included in these sportsare many of those amusements of the middle ages of which Ben Jonson sang: "The Cotswold with the Olympic vies In manly games and goodly exercise.
Hard riding and allsports which involve an element of danger are the best antidotes to that luxury and effeminacy which long periods of peace are apt to foster.
From time immemorial the country people have delighted in sports and manly exercises.
Even in boyhood he devoted most of his time to sports of the field, and showed a great fondness for all forms of natural history.
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again.
The knights and spectators are alike impatient, the time advances, and highly fit it is that the sportsshould commence.
Before he was ten his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair; and his sleep was disturbed by dreams of fiends trying to fly away with him.
In fact, the people had other occupations, and reckoned on other sports peculiar to their epoch, and did not need to perfect this diversion.
My best bag for one day was forty-one and a half couples, but this has been doubled by sports who have shot to make a record.
Well away from beaten tracks I have occasionally met local sports carrying guns together with slow-matches of smouldering brown paper.
These same sports catch snipe in long, light nets which they carry stretched out horizontally some two feet above the grass, so that a bird on rising as it passes overhead, flies into it and is at once secured.
Her delight was in woodland sports and in the spoils of the chase.
Terrified by this oracle, she fled the society of men, and devoted herself to the sports of the chase.
The inhabitants were enjoying themselves in various ways, some in sports on the grassy turf, in games of strength or skill, others dancing or singing.
Thus no Roman was thought manly who could not swim, and every Greek exercised in the athletic sportsof the palaestra.
