United States or Sint Maarten ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Rather they had gone out of their way to be friendly. Some of the university students of Leipzig had taken me to a public dance, expressed their admiration for English sports, and asked my opinion about the merits of various English boxers of whom I had to confess great ignorance. They were good friendly fellows and I liked them.
In all these sports Master Bruin, the eldest, was ever the foremost; but as certain as he joined in the romps, so surely were uproar and fighting the consequence.
At night home, being twelfenight, and there chose my piece of cake, but went up to my viall, and then to bed, leaving my wife and people up at their sports, which they continue till morning, not coming to bed at all. 7th. Up and to the office all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife and family most of them a-bed.
The chiefs of both tribes sat smoking their pipes together, viewing the sports in silent gravity, and acting as umpires in all cases of doubt between the parties. They, in fact, led a glorious life during the three months they remained at the village; that period was to them a continued carnival.
Unequal to the fatigues of war, averse to the society of mankind, he withdrew from his capital to a retired palace, which he built on the banks of the River Eleutherus, and in the centre of a shady grove; where he consumed his vacant hours in the rural sports of hunting and hawking.
Sometimes I can hardly wait until I'm grown up to make a nice home for him to take care of him, and do the things the little things men like to have done for them." Miss Clyde turned and scrutinized Blue Bonnet's face closely. What was this child saying? This woman-child, who only yesterday was romping through the house, indulging in childish dreams childish sports.
"I didn't know," said the young man, whose usual occupation was reporting sports, and who had a dim idea that every big will must be contested. Necessarily the affair made a great deal of talk.
After they had gone, Polly and Eleanor wandered around at a loss for something to do. Being Sunday, their sports were limited to a quiet time. So they decided to visit the corrals and see Noddy and Choko, as the burros had been neglected by their riders during the past few days of the excitement over gold. They were passing the wagon-house, when Polly caught hold of Eleanor's arm for silence.
"If only he didn't have to wear glasses," she said. "I'm so afraid it will interfere with his love of sports. His ambition is to be captain of a football team and to write poetry." "It's a queer combination," responded the doctor, smiling his slightly whimsical smile. He was rather short, with an almost imperceptible limp, and he had, as he put it, "never gone in for sports."
Their meagre physical experiences, plus their meagre intellectual experiences, made a negative sum so vast that it overbalanced their wholesome morality and healthful sports. In short, I couldn't play with the pupils of a lower grade. All the clean splendid young life that was theirs was denied me thanks to my earlier tutelage under John Barleycorn. I knew too much too young.
Word Of The Day