66 Metaphors for gamed

These games were spiritual exercises, 207.

What an interesting and absorbing game is money-making!

And since the game was now Kingston's, no one waited to see whether Heady would have knocked a home run or struck out.

After a moment's silence, during which he seemed to be rallying the very last of his vital forces for the effort, he said, "Wellthe game is playedout.

The game of base-ball, as played in our boyhood, was a simple, robust, straightforward contest, where the hardest hitter was the best man; but it is every year becoming perfected into a sleight-of-hand, like cricket; mere strength is now almost valueless in playing it, and it calls rather for the qualities of the billiard-player.

If this is so, then the game between Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl is again a transparent figure of speech for the contest between night and day.

Game must be plenty where they are," remarked Will.

So all the game which we saw was a lovely white Egret, {278} its back covered with those stiff pinnated plumes which young ladies when they can obtain themare only too happy to wear in their hats.

On the road, we passed within view of "the Briars," where the chief resided during the building of Longwood; and where he, "Whose game was kingdoms, and whose stakes were thrones!

From this point the game became a grim struggle.

The games most commonly played in society are whist, loo, vingt-et-un, and speculation.

These funeral games were an old religious institution, occurring on the ninth day after the burial, and known as Ludi Novemdiales; they are familiar to every one from Virgil's skilful introduction of them, as a Roman equivalent for the Homeric games, in the fifth Aeneid, on the anniversary of the funeral of Anchises.

Two match games a week was now the rule for the Varsity, and Joel each Wednesday and Saturday might have been found seated under the fence dividing the gridiron from the grand stand wrapped nearly from sight, if the afternoon was chilly, in a great gray blanket, and watching the play with all the excited ardor of the veriest schoolboy on the stand behind.

Jack Jones would retort, with a half-suppress'd sigh, "Ay! too deep by half for such ninnies as I." Quoth Jones"'Twas delightful the bushes to beat With a gun in my hand and a dog at my feet, But the game at the Horse-Guards is different, good lack!

a rich Banquet, Musick, and every place stuck with adornment, Fit for a Princes welcome; what new game Has Fortune now prepar'd to shew me happy?

Some game, I understood, was in progress, but a game that had become too serious for the happiness of the prisoner, for there was a fear in the girl's eyes that was a very genuine fear indeed.

When it was possible the children went to see the real blacksmith or the real cow, and to let game or handwork be an expression, and a re-ordering of ideas gained was natural and right.

Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.

All the game we could catch was the marten or sable, which the Indians called Waubusash.

The principal games at this period were quinze and faro.

Outdoor games, when played in a reasonable and honorable manner, are most efficient and practical means to develop these qualities in young people. 94.

To your thorough sport, though, a scientific, well-balanced game is the most interesting.

4. The game of basket ball is an injury to a school, since it detracts from interest in studies.

"We had many marbles and toys that poor children had, in that day my favorite game was marbles.

Let him try to join them, and lo, the games become a mockery, and he finds that he is cavorting still outside the walls, while the good citizens inside are making sly sport of him.

66 Metaphors for  gamed