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The result was that he advanced to Carl, and said, courteously: "If you would like to enter into our games, you are quite at liberty to do so." "Thank you," responded Carl. "I have had a little practice in archery, and will enter my name for that prize." He paid over his quarter and received back fifteen cents in change.
And the Rakshasa Kumvakarna was the most powerful in battle, for he was fierce and terrible and a thorough master of the arts of illusion. And Khara was proficient in archery, and hostile to the Brahmanas, subsisting as he did on flesh. And the fierce Surpanakha was constant source of trouble to the ascetics.
Eustace at first fancied he could claim it, but soon he saw that his proposal was viewed as so foolish that he devoured it, and talked of giving an equivalent; but, as Lord Erymanth observed, it would be very difficult to arrange this with an article of family and antiquarian value, in the hands of an archery club an impersonal body. "The thing would be to win it," said Viola.
"We missed you at the archery meeting ha! ha! ha!" Mrs. Willis. "Mr. Willis would not let me go he! he! he!" Mrs. James. "Well, at all events he! he! you will come to the flower show." Mrs. Willis. "Oh yes! he! he! I am so fond of flowers ha! ha!" Mrs. Luttrell. "So am I. I adore them he! he!" Mrs. Willis. "How sweetly Miss Malcolm sings he! he!" Mrs. Luttrell.
This question was put by Sir Timothy to Sir Orlando as they sat in a corner of the archery ground, under the shelter of a tent, looking on while Major Pountney taught Mrs. Boffin how to fix an arrow to her bowstring.
But lo! very soon Giles was there also and even as Beltane sighed, so sighed Giles. "Heigho a sorry world, brother!" quoth he, "a sorry world!" and forthwith fell to his archery, yet now, though his aim was true as ever, he sighed and murmured plaintively 'twixt every shot: "Alack, a sorry world!"
The catalogue of them is as follows: a book on Equestrian Archery, which discovered much skill in the art; the Life of Q. Pomponius Secundus; twenty books of the Wars of Germany; a complete treatise on the Education of an Orator, in six volumes; eight books of Doubtful Discourses, written in the latter part of the reign of Nero, when every kind of moral discussion was attended with danger; with a hundred and sixty volumes of remarks on the writings of the various authors which he had perused.
The most valuable were some serviceable fishing-rods, reels, lines, fishing-baskets, a couple of bows, and the various accoutrements required in archery, a good bat or two, and similar things valued by boys. The Doctor made a very neat speech, and complimented them all on the skill and talent displayed both in kites and carriages.
There were seasons before that, if you will believe me, when even croquet had not been invented, and archery which was revived in England in 1844 was as great a pest as lawn-tennis is now.
Our appearance necessarily took their attention; and after an exchange of salutes, but in which no names were mentioned on either side, they invited us to accompany them to their party, who were refreshing themselves in an adjoining dell. "We have had a party at archery," said one of them, "and Madame St. Amande has won the silver bugle and bow.
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