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Updated: May 6, 2025
I played a straight back-hand shot down the line, passing Mr. Gore's forehand rather a desperate stroke, as if it failed to pass him it meant certain death from one of his straight-arm volleys.
Oh, J. G e-e-e!" Weary, who was roping, had just dragged a calf up to the fire and was making a loop to catch another when the cow made a second charge at the fence. He dashed in ahead of her, his horse narrowly escaping an ugly gash from her long, wicked horns. As he dodged he threw his rope with the peculiar, back-hand twist of the practiced roper, catching her by the head and one front foot.
It is nearly always best to lob to your opponent's back-hand, since the majority of players are weaker there. There are three kinds of lobs: The high lob, sent well out of reach of your opponent's racket, but with the disadvantage of taking some time to reach the ground.
But paper of any kind is rare in these days, and so the gleam of white had caught his eye as he went up-stairs to his sleeping apartment. The handwriting was unfamiliar, and besides it was in back-hand, and it may be disguised as well; he was hardly an expert in such fine distinctions. But it was plainly a message, and its possible import startled him.
But Blue Jeans, who had landed lightly on the gravel, saw what Devereau had missed. He saw that Tweed-Suit was afraid that she was numbed with fear. His single back-hand thrust sent Devereau spinning under a truck. "Your train?" "Yes." "Give me your bag." She obeyed him. They had told her that the train did not wait very long. His hand found her arm, a different touch than Devereau's.
As Myles struck and hacked at the pel assigned to him, Sir James Lee stood beside him watching him in grim silence. The lad did his best to show the knight all that he knew of upper cut, under cut, thrust, and back-hand stroke, but it did not seem to him that Sir James was very well satisfied with his skill. "Thou fightest like a clodpole," said the old man. "Ha, that stroke was but ill-recovered.
Until you have tried this you cannot realize how difficult it is, or how greatly it will improve your stroke; and it helps to complete concentration, which to my mind is one of the chief attributes of success. The Back-hand Drive is taken in the same way as the fore-hand, only with your position reversed. Here, too, you must not face the net, but stand sideways.
On the back of this well-worn letter was a pencil-scrawl, which, although I read it last, I present first to my reader, that he may trace link by link the chain of villainy that bound together my two oppressors. It was in the small, clear calligraphy of Basil Bainrothe, before described; characterized, I believe, as a back-hand and thus it ran: "You are right it was a master-stroke!
What a blow he had dealt to her conception of him by his instant assumption that a change in her could only mean that Neale had been bullying her. It had been hard to see him so far away and diminished as that had made him seem, so entirely outside her world. It had dealt a back-hand blow to her own self-esteem to have him seem vulgar.
He spoke in the sharp, peremptory manner of a man who would take no nonsense, and the well men who obeyed his orders scowled malignantly. One muttered deep in his chest as he took the corpse by the feet. The white man exploded in speech and action. It cost him a painful effort, but his arm shot out, landing a back-hand blow on the black's mouth. "What name you, Angara?" he shouted.
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