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Updated: September 21, 2025
So you have in your hand a racket, A tennis-ball in your cod-placket, A Pandect law in your cap's tippet, And that you have the skill to trip it In a low dance, you will b' allowed The grant of the licentiate's hood. How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language.
Somebody said, it was very likely indeed they should agree now, when the Prince could never bring it about; and so everybody went away to take care of himself. The imposthumation is supposed to have proceeded, not from his fall last year, but from a blow with a tennis-ball some years ago. The grief for the dead brother is affectedly displayed.
So once more the people of the city were able to go out without fear even at night time, and the brave deeds of Watanabe have never been forgotten! Many, many years ago there lived a good old man who had a wen like a tennis-ball growing out of his right cheek.
She floats gracefully off Dieppe on stormy mornings. Her baigneuse generally of chiffon and old point lace has not lost a curve. The older ladies, bathing round her, look wet. Their dress clings damply to their limbs. But the pretty girl of Art dives, and never a curl of her hair is disarranged. The pretty girl of Art stands lightly on tip-toe and volleys a tennis-ball six feet above her head.
The scene must have been high. The company kicked about the poor diabolic writer's head as though it had been a tennis-ball. Sic in Essays on his own Times by S. T. C., the collection of her father's articles made by Mrs. Alas, that the facts should be so merciless to the most excellent arguments!
After this we found it necessary to keep our conversation down to a whisper for it was really unbearable to have every word one uttered tossed to and fro like a tennis-ball, as precipice called to precipice. But even our whispers ran up the rocks in mysterious murmurs till at last they died away in long-drawn sighs of sound.
"And we thought him sleeping!" presently cried he. "Well," he added, rising, "that milk's spilt; no use crying over it. Plan a better venture; that's the only course. Monsieur is gone back to St. Denis to report to the king. Marry, he makes as little of these gates as if he were a tennis-ball and they the net.
Even at that same period, she advanced into Persia more than a thousand miles from her own metropolis in Europe, under the blazing ensigns of the cross, kicked the crown of Persia to and fro like a tennis-ball, upset the throne of Artaxerxes, countersigned haughtily the elevation of a new Basileus more friendly to herself, and then recrossed the Tigris homewards, after having torn forcibly out of the heart and palpitating entrails of Persia, whatever trophies that idolatrous empire had formerly wrested from herself.
A stone the size of a tennis-ball soared slowly over them and plopped into the water a score of yards away.
I wish I had not heard it, almost; and yet, methinks, I am glad I did; for I should rejoice to think the best of him, for his own sake. Well, and so I went out to the chariot, the same that brought me down. So, Mr. Robert, said I, here I am again! a poor sporting-piece for the great! a mere tennis-ball of fortune! You have your orders, I hope. Yes, madam, said he.
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