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Now and then some one bowed gravely to Stephen. There was a Sunday decorum over all. They rambled up to the Bowling Green. Some quaintly attired elderly people who had the entrée of the place were sitting about enjoying the loveliness. One old Frenchman had a ruffled shirt-front and a very high coat-collar that made him look like a picture, and knee-breeches.
'Let us walk down the hill. A flash of lightning made Louise start, and the thunder rattled again. But only light drops were falling. The girl stood her ground. 'I want to know what I am to do. If you can't help me, say so, and let me go my own way. 'Of course I can help you. That is, if you'll be honest with me. I want to know, first of all, whether you've been encouraging that man Bowling.
From this elevated position he could still see the carriage and the white surface of Paula's parasol in the glowing sun. While he watched the landau stopped, and in a few moments the horses were turned, the wheels and the panels flashed, and the carriage came bowling along towards the castle again. Somerset descended the stone stairs.
"I heartily thanked the good old Irish lady for I have found true ladies and gentlemen among the poor and humble, as well as the wealthy, especially in Ireland and in a few minutes I was bowling gayly along toward Cahir. "This is a small, ancient, walled garrison town, the nearest railway station being at Clonmel.
Such were the chiefs in whose rude school were formed those sturdy warriors from whom Smollett, in the next age, drew Lieutenant Bowling and Commodore Trunnion.
He generally, when found out, bore his blushing honours meekly, and if not discovered, contented himself by laughing quietly in his sleeve. "All fair and above board," cried Tom, bowling. "Look out!" Ernest hit the ball a fine blow, and sent it flying away over the heads of all the out-players. Away he ran from base to base.
On the 8th of May, 1734, at the foot of Coinage-hall Street, hard by the Bowling Green, a pewterer's shop stood open, like its neighbours, to admit the Flora. But the master of the shop and his assistant he kept no apprentice sat working as usual at their boards, perhaps the only two men in Helleston who disregarded the public holiday.
The squadron had been on detached duty. Their first service was to protect a railroad bridge which Captain Titus's company and a troop of Texan cavalry had been sent to destroy in order to prevent the transportation of Union forces to Bowling Green. The Texans were thoroughly defeated, and the Home Guards surrounded, beaten, and captured.
It was a curious way of bowling, half under, half over arm, such as none of the girls had seen before, and which seemed to prove most baffling. For three balls Dora merely slogged; the fourth, to her extreme surprise, got her out. "A duck! A duck!" cried the opposite side, in raptures of delight.
I feel sorry for that little woman and when he ain't bowling up and singing his war-song about you, and all he'll do when he meets up with yuh, he's dealing her misery and keeping cases that nobody runs off with her. Why, at dances, he won't let her dance with nobody but him!
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