228 adjectives to describe sports

The physician advised a moderation in athletic sports, which the patient in his hours of liberty was constantly apt to exceed.

" JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.) Argus-Advocate, and ex-President Amateur Athletic Union:"I want to express my gratitude, as a humble follower of manly sport, for the compilation of this historic work.

Besides killing quite a number of buffaloes, and having a day of rare sport, we captured ten or twelve head of cattle, they being a portion of the herd which had been stampeded by the Indians, two months before.

NATIONAL GAME Two more nations have been conquered by the national game of the United States; a whole race has succumbed to the fascinations of the greatest of all outdoor sports.

"Mother," he said, pulling at his coat lapels with a squaring of shoulders, "youyou going to be a dead game little sport?" She was looking ahead now, abstraction growing in her white face.

The next morning, we rose early, and went for our accustomed swim: we had partly shaken off the depression of the previous day; and so, took our rods when we had finished breakfast, and spent the day at our favorite sport.

And can you blame her, to be forth so long, And see no better sport? SIR RALPH.

Football was their favourite sport, and the British Tommy is such a remarkable fellow that it was usual to see him trudge home to camp looking 'fed up' with exercise, and then, after throwing off his pack and tunic, run out to kick a ball.

It was similar in its effects to the rural sports of the yeomanry of the Middle Ages, and to the theatrical representations sometimes held in mediaeval churches,certainly to the processions and pomps which the Catholic clergy instituted for the amusement of the people.

Not until it seemed to me every square inch of my hands had been burned to a blister, and there was a livid, red mark across my forehead, where an old hag had scorched me with a burning brand, did the squaws tire of their cruel sport, and then we were left comparatively alone, with sufficient of pain to keep us so keenly alive to the situation that weariness of body did not make itself apparent.

It is an exciting sport to take one of these large fellows on a line of two hundred and fifty or three hundred feet in length.

In the unrestrained indulgence of their youthful sports, every muscle of the body comes in for its share of active exercise; and free growth, vigour, and health are the result.

The absence of piggy is unnoticed till the red-headed urchin whose playmate it is looks around for the loved companion, of his childish sports, and finds it not.

Peaceful peasants were hunted for mere sport, like the beasts of the forest.

"Barleybreake" (the innocent sport so gracefully described in the first book of the Arcadia) is often used in a wanton sense.

Marten then had nothing for it but to beg Mary to see after his brother, which the young lady as thoughtlessly promised to do, and then he accompanied his young companions to that department of the house appropriated to the use of the boys, where, as might be expected after a little more rude sport, he fell into a sleep so profound and long, that every thought of Reuben was banished from his mind.

Methinks we have to stay a little while on our journey, and see this merry sport."

The principal game is the partridge and hare, and the grand sport, the wild boar.

"These are the prettiest village sports I have ever witnessed," said Eve, "though a little dangerous, one would think.

VI In martial sports I had my cunning tried, And yet to break more staves did me address, While with the people's shouts (I must confess) Youth, luck, and praise, even fill'd my veins with pride When Cupid, having me (his slave) descried In Mars's livery, prancing in the press, "What now, Sir Fool!" said he; "I would no less: Look here, I say."

ENGLISH MODE OF HUNTING, AND INDIAN PIG-STICKING.The hunting of the wild boar has been in all times, and in all countries, a pastime of the highest interest and excitement, and from the age of Nimrod, has only been considered second to the more dangerous sport of lion-hunting.

The reputation of men is too noble a sacrifice to be offered up to vainglory, fond pleasure, or ill-humour; it is a good far more dear and precious, than to be prostituted for idle sport and divertisement.

Thus we spent several days, having splendid sport, and first-rate appetites to do justice upon our prey.

" "But I wish for no collisions, no associations, Mr. Powis, but simply to pass through the streets, with my cousin and Mademoiselle Viefville, to enjoy the sight of the rustic sports, as one would do in France, or Italy, or even in republican Switzerland, if you insist on a republican example.

"The schoolboys drove me from play, and were always tormenting me, and hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports, but read incessantly....

228 adjectives to describe  sports