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And then he took another peek at me, as much as to say, 'Well, let's get it over. Where shall I soak him first? And while he's doing this I get in range and I put my left pretty smart into his lunch-wagon and I pick up my right off the carpet and hand it to him, and down he goes. And when he gets up again it's pretty nearly to-morrow morning and I've drawn the winner's end and gone home."
It was to be sung, it seems, before the house of Telesarchos the winner's father, at Aigina. For Kleandros in his prime let some of you, ye young men, go stand before the shining portal of his father Telesarchos, and rouse a song of triumph, to be a glorious recompense of his toils, for that he hath achieved reward of victory at Isthmos, and hath showed his strength in the games of Nemea.
Now at this new good fortune I rejoice; yet somewhat also I grieve, even to behold how envy requiteth noble deeds . Yet thus ever, they say, must fair hap abiding with a man engender bad with good. The insolence of the barbarian despot seems to be symbolized by that of the giants Typhon and Porphyrion. The ode was apparently to be sung on the winner's return to Aigina.
But do thou, O Father Zeus, who holdest sway on the mountain-ridges of Atabyrios glorify the accustomed Olympian winner's hymn, and the man who hath done valiantly with his fists: give him honour at the hands of citizens and of strangers; for he walketh in the straight way that abhorreth insolence, having learnt well the lessons his true soul hath taught him, which hath come to him from his noble sires.
She had met Miss Kendall only once at a card-party and Elizabeth had learned long ago that card-parties were not functions where one went to get acquainted with people. She remembered that Miss Kendall had sat at a table near her, that she had played with a kind of absorbed fury, and had gone off radiant, bearing a huge brass tray, the winner's trophy.
The competitors will be expected to take a special examination in mathematics, and the winner will be awarded two hundred dollars for two years, payable in four annual instalments, the payment of any instalment to be conditional on the winner's attending the required classes for undergraduates and making satisfactory progress therein. Isn't that correct?" "So far as it goes, old man.
Masters had told him that Mary would certainly give a little trouble in winning, but would be the more worth the winner's trouble when won. And she had certainly shown no preference for any other young man about the town. There had been a moment when he had much dreaded Mr. Surtees. Young clergymen are apt to be formidable rivals, and Mr.
Had he been a less healthy and active boy he might have permanently injured himself from the overstrain of the contest. As it was, Crow Wing managed to cross the line first and was pronounced champion. Enoch had just strength enough to shake the winner's hand before he fell upon the grass, and there he lay exhausted while the other boys held a "potato race" and jumped hurdles.
And as Bruce paced majestically out of the ring at last, he was the possessor of five more blue ribbons as well as the blue Winner's rosette, for "best collie in the show." "Great dog you've got there, madam!" commented Symonds in solemn approval as he handed the Winner's rosette to the Mistress. "Fine dog in every way. Fine promise. He will go far. One of the best types I've "
The dogs that get a blue ribbon that's first prize in these classes all have to appear in what is called the 'Winners Class. Then the dog that gets 'Winner's' the dog that gets first prize in this 'Winners' Class' competes for best dog of his breed in the show. After that as a 'special' the best in all the different breeds are brought into the ring.
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