The day's workCharles Scribner's Sons, 1899 |
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... ride for a new one . An impatient British Cavalry Band struck up " If you want to know the time , ask a p'leeceman ! " and the two umpires in light dust- coats danced out on two little excited ponies . The four players of the Archangels ...
... ride for a new one . An impatient British Cavalry Band struck up " If you want to know the time , ask a p'leeceman ! " and the two umpires in light dust- coats danced out on two little excited ponies . The four players of the Archangels ...
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... riding makes up for playing alone . Their captain shouted his orders to them by name , and it is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him hot and fretty . Lutyens said nothing to his men ...
... riding makes up for playing alone . Their captain shouted his orders to them by name , and it is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him hot and fretty . Lutyens said nothing to his men ...
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... riding to speak of . " " Don't know , " said Polaris . " We've made ' em angry too soon . ' Shouldn't wonder if they tried to rush us off our feet next time . " " Keep the ball hanging , then , " said Shiraz . " That wears out every ...
... riding to speak of . " " Don't know , " said Polaris . " We've made ' em angry too soon . ' Shouldn't wonder if they tried to rush us off our feet next time . " " Keep the ball hanging , then , " said Shiraz . " That wears out every ...
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... to get a goal ? " The Maltese Cat answered . " For pity's sake , don't run away with a notion that the game is half- won just because we happen to be in luck nou ! They'll ride you into the grand stand , if they 58 THE MALTESE CAT.
... to get a goal ? " The Maltese Cat answered . " For pity's sake , don't run away with a notion that the game is half- won just because we happen to be in luck nou ! They'll ride you into the grand stand , if they 58 THE MALTESE CAT.
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Rudyard Kipling. They'll ride you into the grand stand , if they can ; you must not give ' em a chance . Follow the ball . " " Football , as usual ? " said Polaris . " My hock's half as big as a nose - bag . " " Don't let them have a ...
Rudyard Kipling. They'll ride you into the grand stand , if they can ; you must not give ' em a chance . Follow the ball . " " Football , as usual ? " said Polaris . " My hock's half as big as a nose - bag . " " Don't let them have a ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 191 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 38 - O TRINITY of love and power, Our brethren shield in danger's hour ; From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe'er they go ; Thus evermore shall rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise from land and -sea.
Página 231 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Página 17 - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Página 250 - Girls and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave your sleep, And come with your playfellows into the street. Come with a whoop, come with a call, Come with a good will or not at all.
Página 38 - And that's how the Visigoth went down, for no assignable reason, with eighty bags of mail, five hundred souls, and not a single packet insured, on just such a night as this.' ' Oh, Trinity of love and power, Our brethren shield in that dread hour, From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe'er they go. Thus evermore shall rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise by land and sea.
Página 72 - Cat did not complain much when the veterinary surgeon said that he would be no good for polo any more. When Lutyens married, his wife did not allow him to play, so he was forced to be an umpire; and his pony on these occasions was a fleabitten grey with a neat polo-tail, lame all round, but desperately quick on his feet, and, as everybody knew, Past Pluperfect Prestissimo Player of the Game.
Página 192 - In the beginning of things she had been unregenerate; had worn the heavy fluffy fringe which is the ornament of the costermonger's girl, and there is a legend in Gunnison Street that on her wedding-day she, a flare-lamp in either hand, danced dances on a discarded lover's winkle-barrow, till a policeman interfered, and then Badalia danced with the Law amid shoutings. Those were her days of fatness, and they did not last long, for her husband after two years took to himself another woman, and passed...
Página 48 - Corks, who saw that, if he were not quick, it would run beyond the boundaries. That long bouncing drive gave the Archangels time to wheel and send three men across the ground to head off Corks. Kittiwynk stayed where she was, for she knew the game. Corks was on the ball half a fraction of a second before the others came up...
Página 47 - ... riders were excellent players, but they were a team of crack players instead of a crack team ; and that made all the difference in the world. They honestly meant to play together, but it is very hard for four men, each the best of the team he is picked from, to remember that in polo no brilliancy of hitting or riding makes up for playing alone. Their captain shouted his orders to them by name, and it is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him...