The Boy's Handy Book of Sports, Pastimes, Games and Amusements..Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet Street., 1863 - 374 páginas |
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... fall you in- tended for him , if he is a bold leaper and has taken a good spring , may come to the ground with great violence , and injure himself seriously . We have heard of a collar - bone broken through fudging , nor was the said ...
... fall you in- tended for him , if he is a bold leaper and has taken a good spring , may come to the ground with great violence , and injure himself seriously . We have heard of a collar - bone broken through fudging , nor was the said ...
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... fall beyond this base are not counted in the game . In fives , the players may take sides , two or three players being on each side , and standing alternately , thus * 0 O o , or each player may play on his own account , and sometimes ...
... fall beyond this base are not counted in the game . In fives , the players may take sides , two or three players being on each side , and standing alternately , thus * 0 O o , or each player may play on his own account , and sometimes ...
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... fall to the ground , when their turn came to strike it up , counting one . The same game is now played with the light globes of caoutchouc , distended with air ; they are brittle indeed , but very cheap , and are suitable for young boys ...
... fall to the ground , when their turn came to strike it up , counting one . The same game is now played with the light globes of caoutchouc , distended with air ; they are brittle indeed , but very cheap , and are suitable for young boys ...
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... falls . This is undoubtedly the easiest way of spinning ; but it is justly decried by schoolboys as a girlish and shuffling proceeding , and totally inferior in every way to the honest overhanded method of holding the top tightly in the ...
... falls . This is undoubtedly the easiest way of spinning ; but it is justly decried by schoolboys as a girlish and shuffling proceeding , and totally inferior in every way to the honest overhanded method of holding the top tightly in the ...
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... falls , sprained joints , and similar amenities . Nothing of the kind need be feared , after a good selection has ... fall , and the combat itself would have serious consequences . " Thus much for introduction . Now for a description ...
... falls , sprained joints , and similar amenities . Nothing of the kind need be feared , after a good selection has ... fall , and the combat itself would have serious consequences . " Thus much for introduction . Now for a description ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 140 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield.
Página 305 - Tis brightness all; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head; and, ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep-hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Página 141 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 59 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Página 155 - In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Página 140 - Ha, Ha!" And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Página 156 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 55 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Página 46 - When I was a boy I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to a very considerable height above the pond, while I was swimming. In a little time, being desirous of amusing myself with my kite, and enjoying at the same time the pleasure of swimming, I returned, and loosing from the...
Página 156 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength — a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...