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Updated: June 12, 2025
The wing man was an international and about the fastest three-quarter in Scotland, so I tried a little device, which was bad football, though in this case it came off.
Old Jolyon would speak quite openly of swipes, full tosses, half and three-quarter balls; and young Jolyon with the guileless snobbery of youth had trembled lest his sire should be overheard. Only in this supreme matter of cricket he had been nervous, for his father in Crimean whiskers then had ever impressed him as the beau ideal.
Seen thus, three-quarter face, Tom realized suddenly not only how really beautiful she was or rather could at moments be but how strangely she resembled Sir Charles her father. There was likeness not of features alone; but, for all her youthful freshness, a reflection of his strength, his inscrutability.
Hast thou any special way of calling thy dog? It is a moonlit night, I believe. He rose and went to the window, over which hung a heavy curtain of Flemish tapestry. 'It is a three-quarter old moon, my lord, said Dorothy, 'and very bright. I did use to call my dog with a whistle my mother gave me when I was a child. 'Canst thou lay thy hand upon it? Hast thou it with thee in Raglan?
Then the movin'-picture express, which was a retired switch-engine hooked onto a Swede observation car, backs down on Adolphus, and we was to rush up like pretty fast, and save his life. "She was a sassy little chicken with blond feathers and a three-quarter rig skirt.
"Man, man, that's a horse race." "They'll never stop at the half-mile pole," Farrel laughed. "That race will be won by Panchito when Panchito wins it. Ah, I told you so." "Well, Peep-sight wins at the half by one open length and the cholo boy is using a switch on him!" "He's through. Panchito is gaining on him. He'll pass him at the three-quarter pole." "Right-o, Farrel.
By this means her enterprise was sure to get wind, and a mob of the idle young men and barefooted urchins of the village, with Bob M'Cann, "a three-quarter clift"* of a fellow half knave, half fool, was to be found, a little below the village, upon an elevation of the road, that commanded a level stretch of half a mile or so, in anxious expectation of the procession.
He knew nothing about three-quarter work, but he had played forward ever since he had gone to the Fernhurst preparatory at ten years of age, and could always spot the worker and the slacker, which Lovelace major never could.
"At anyrate, a happy evening was passed, and, after spending a day in Glasgow, the Yankees sailed on the following Monday morning for New York, where they duly arrived without any mishap, after the fastest passage on record, having covered the distance from Greenock to Sandy Hook in twenty-three hours fifty-nine and three-quarter minutes."
Up to this moment we had managed to keep him within an area of a quarter of a mile in length, by half a mile in width; he had now got into new ground, and was in about a three-quarter mile length of the same unbeaten jungle.
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