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"I might have known there was some trick about it!" cried the lad. "Alma isn't that kind of a planet! By Heaven, Powart deserves to be assassinated!" "Nothing doing," replied the athlete promptly, his eyes sparkling with the old light. "The first thing is to get you out of here; you, and the other hundred and fifty who were put in at the same time."
Compare an athlete in flannels playing tennis and a stout dignitary smothered in gold robes. Or compare a good modern yacht, swift, lithe, and plain, with a lumbering heavily gilded sixteenth-century galleon, or even with a Chinese state junk: the yacht is far the more beautiful though she has not a hundredth part of the ornament.
The athlete takes such exercises and eats such foods as will most properly develop and strengthen his muscles. The soul that has any longings for more of God must exercise to have its yearnings gratified. To be conscious of a growing up into Christ, to feel the soul intertwining more and more with the life of God, is fulness of joy and perfect happiness.
All at once Hester spied a face she knew, considerably changed as it was since last she had seen it. "Now we shall have help!" she said to her companion, making common cause with him notwithstanding his antagonism. " Mr. Franks!" The athlete was not so far off that she needed to call very loud. He heard and started with eager interest.
Toward the close of his sermon he recovered from the stupor with which he had been struggling and ended with something of his usual fervour. He was a man of powerful physique, wide chest and broad shoulders, a tall athlete, six feet four, of Viking mould, hair blond and waving, steel-gray eyes, a strong aquiline nose and frank, serious face.
There would be more success in the end if we learned to go slower and so became more thorough in the beginning. There are certain exercises that every athlete must take to have a good physique, and the very first, and by far the most useful of these, is walking. Can you walk? I hear you laughing at the question; but let me change it slightly and ask, "Can you walk properly?"
However, he did not keep even this woman for long, but married a second, and then a third, and still another; after that he went back to Severa. Sardanapalus was conducting games and numerous spectacles, in which Helix, the athlete, won renown.
"My dear chap, do forgive me for not waiting," said the superintendent contritely, as Cleek came in, looking like a college-bred athlete in his boating-flannels and his brim-tilted panama. "But the fact is you are a little later than I anticipated; and I was simply famishing." "Share the blame of my lateness with me, Mr.
And of course I was proud when he got his double blue at Cambridge. Cricket and football were more than pastimes to him. He put his heart and soul into them, and when he made 106 not out against Oxford he was as happy as if he had found a new continent. And now the great athlete, the pride of his College, the big clean-limbed giant was a cripple.
They turned, and went towards the Corso, which they presently entered, and where numbers of passers-by paused involuntarily to look at the two men who offered such a marked contrast to each other, the one brown-haired and lithe, with dark, eager eyes, the other with the slim well set up figure of an athlete, and the fair head of a Saxon king.
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