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The batter stands at the front line of the home-base and holds his bat above his shoulder and strikes from that position, with both hands grasping the handle of the bat, if he is using a flat bat.
The thunder of hoofs is heard outside; the rattle of musketry and sabers, and the next instant a company of soldiery, headed by Major R , ride straight up into the saloon, firing right and left. "Come!" cried Calamity Jane, grasping Harris by the arm, and pulling him toward a side door, "it's time for us to slope now. It's every man for himself."
He was one of that unfortunate class of discharged soldiers who are tempted to sell their pensions often far below their true value, for the sake of getting a lot of land in some remote settlement, where it is only rendered valuable by the labour of the settler, and where they will have the unenviable privilege of expending the last remains of their strength in clearing a patch of land for the benefit of some grasping storekeeper who has given them credit while engaged in the work.
Though very unequal in talent and in force of character, they were all three ambitious and jealous. The eldest, the Duke of Anjou, who was energetic, despotic, and stubborn, aspired to dominion in France for the sake of making French influence subserve the conquest of the kingdom of Naples, the object of his ambition. The Duke of Berry was a mediocre, restless, prodigal, and grasping prince.
The birth of my sons certainly gave me some pleasure as well as latent hope, for as little children they were lovable and lovely; but as boys as men what bitterness they brought me! Were they the heirs of Love? Nay! surely Love never generated such callous hearts! They were the double reflex of their mother's nature, grasping all and giving nothing.
If, however, we have awakened in any rational mind an interest in the symbolism of umbrellas in any generous heart a more complete sympathy with the dumb companion of his daily walk or in any grasping spirit a pure notion of respectability strong enough to make him expend his six- and-twenty shillings we shall have deserved well of the world, to say nothing of the many industrious persons employed in the manufacture of the article.
It was scarcely necessary to do this, but Miss Squeers was as good as her word; and poor Nicholas, in addition to bad food, dirty lodging, and the being compelled to witness one dull unvarying round of squalid misery, was treated with every special indignity that malice could suggest, or the most grasping cupidity put upon him. Nor was this all.
Tom shook his head, and swallowed hard. "Oh, yes," said Jasper, summoning all the cheerfulness he could muster to his aid. "Come, it's the very thing to do, if you really want to help your Grandfather." Tom raised his head and looked at him. "I never supposed the old man was sick," he said brokenly, and down went his head again, this time upon his hands, which were grasping the top of the chair.
Suddenly grasping the wrist of Betty, who had also naturally felt the impulse to succour her father, he exclaimed "Stop! Betty. They don't mean murder. You an' I can do nothing against so many. Keep quiet; p'r'aps they'll leave us alone." As he spoke a still deeper idea flashed into his little brain.
Or if not, that poor child would be granted to any needy kinsman or grasping baron that Edward wanted to portion. My child shall be my own, and none other's. Better a beggar's brat than an earl's heiress!" "She is a lovely little maiden. I know not how thou canst endure letting her grow up in poverty, an alien from her birth and rank." "Poverty," Henry laughed.
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