She had two sets flying now, like tennis balls, she wrote to Miss Du Prel: one set across the Channel.
We are invited to tennis at their house, for next Tuesday," said Harold, "so you will have a chance of pursuing the acquaintance.
Your daughters would perhaps like a game of tennis with my brothers presently.
Very well, my dears, but now run along to your tennis game.
A few tennis courts are made beside it, or perhaps a stretch of jungle is cleared, the more obtrusive roots grubbed up, and the result is called a polo-ground, and on it the game is played fast and furiously.
Sets of tennis were arranged and the game was soon in full swing.
She caught a tennis ball from the court, where it lay neglected, and showed him what a ball could be.
And she did throw it over the hedge as she stood on the tennis court.
There were two tennis courts on one side of the driveway, down near the secretive hedge.
If Joan had been older and in less haste she would have seen that her father had changed since the day the tennis ball had found him.
It gave her something to do while the others laughed and chattered of golf and tennis and the Country Club dances and a hundred other things about which she knew nothing.
It is nothing but a bare room--just a few chairs and a couple of benches, and lots of hooks on the walls to hang up our cricket and tennis bats.
She then walked past the two girls to fetch her tennis bat, which was hanging on the wall.
Matilda Matthews was having a very good time in one of the tennis courts that afternoon.
They were both tired, and walking across the wide field, had entered the little summerhouse where the cricket bats, tennis bats, and other implements of sport were kept.
The tennisseason was nearly over; the weather was getting even more than autumnal.
Illustration: Across the Lawn] Half way between the house and the tennis court which defines the estate is a wonderful old garden which has been designed not so much for show purposes as to supply flowers all through the season.
Rows of apple-trees, many of which were on the estate when it was first purchased, remnants of the original orchard, surround in part the tennis court, behind which is a swimming pool which is in frequent use.
As it happened, however, Caspar Billings was much too busy playing tennis that morning to read the Clearfield Reporter, and when Dick met him he knew nothing of Mr. Potter's activities.
Northumberland who was willing to exchange five Buff Orpingtons, a suit, a tennis racket and Cowper's Poems for a mechanical organ or a 5 ft.
Michael, however, ascribed his failure to a little girl who would persist in bouncing a tennis ball near his seat in the gardens.
Michael listened with quickening pulses to the thump of tennis balls in the distance.
But one world’s champion tennis player was well by forty; he must have played thirty years.
He plays baseball all the spring, tennis all summer, football thruout the autumn, and what there is left of the year goes into ice hockey.
True, in his childhood this man had lived near Tennis as the son of a free papyrus raiser, but when still a lad was sold into slavery in Alexandria with his father, who had been seized for taking part in an insurrection against the last king.
If any one could give her satisfaction, it was she and the demons who obeyed her will, and the old woman was glad to oblige Ledscha; she was bound to her by closer ties than most people in Tennis knew.
Though Hermon has vowed, I know not what, your love-dallying will very soon be over; we shall leave Tennis within the next few days.
So we joined the procession of the Tennis maidens and, as the fairest, they placed us directly behind the daughters of Hiram.
Yet for the past two years an investigation had threatened Satabus, the distinguished head of the family, and during this period he, with his ships and his sons, had avoided Tennis and the Egyptian coast.
I must first know whether Hermon really means to leave Tennis so soon.
I see you have been distinguishing yourself on the tennis courts," he wrote.
But the tennis players had brought balls and racquets with them, and, these being good, the defects of the ground were regarded good-naturedly as part of the fun.
When Mrs Garfield proposed that she should join the tennis club, Esme caught at the suggestion eagerly.
During the morning Esme played tennis with two girls and a man who were staying at the hotel.
She played tennis during the morning, and played badly; her heart was not in the game, and the careless gaiety of her companions jarred on her sober mood.
Soon after her tennis victory he wrote congratulating her on the event.
But you mustn't play tennis beforehand: it's quite a good stretch.
The tennis court was rough, and a rope stretched across it did service for a net.
I shall look for you on the tennis lawn at half-past four.
They went downstairs, and through the billiard room to the terrace, and from the terrace to the tennis lawn, where John Hammond sat reading Heine nearly a year ago, just before he proposed to Lesbia.
The tennis lawn, which had been levelled on one side of the house, was surrounded on three sides by shrubberies planted forty years ago, in the beginning of Lady Maulevrier's widowhood.
How would she greet him when they met presently on the tennis lawn?
There was no one on the tennis lawn when he went there, though the hour was close at hand at which Lesbia had promised to give him his answer.
The weather had been exceptionally warm for the last week, and they had played tennis and sat in the garden just as if it had been actually summer.
The whole thing, levelled, would not have made a single lawn-tennis court, nor yet a practice pitch of proper length.
Illustration: The turf on a putting-green or tennis court must be dense and low, as well as tough.
If knowledge of the location and price of a tennis ball subserves my use of it and acquaintance with it, the latter in turn subserves my knowledge about it in an indefinite number of respects.
The common hollow rubber ball should be two and a half inches in diameter—about the size of a tennis ball.
You are Miss Myers whom I met at the Newport tennis tournament, I believe.
Jerry, from the top step of the train, waving her handbag, a magazine and a tennis racket, all of which she clutched in her right hand.
We had quite a lot of fun together one afternoon at a tennis tournament.
They were a pretty pair of school girls in their short bright gingham dresses, ruffled white aprons and white stockings and tennis shoes.
An expert tennis player, she was swift and nimble of foot.
Moreover, right alongside it in the middle of a disused sugar refinery I had hired the yard, converted it into a couple of lawn-tennis courts, and ran a small club.
We were a little delayed by what is known as wind-jamming, and we used to kill time by playing tennis in the huge empty hold.
I cannot tell you how many times I have been caught in unconscious attitudes, crossing the tennis court, or leaning against a tree, or seated on the steps.
This was more than a compensation for their losses in the tennis tournament.
Very few girls were visible in the house, although there was a double set on the tennis ground and a group watching the game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tennis" 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
