The next room is most interesting, for it is a small ball-room, the ball-room in fact of Her Majesty the Queen.

She looked divinely handsome in her ball-dress of a darkish shade of blue, relieved by a bunch of roses in her corsage and a single diamond brooch.

more women attend ball games now than did ten years ago.

There I was again unarmed, dancin' about, swelled up like a base ball player on match day.

The Rifles were paraded for church, and time was lost in getting arms and serving out ball cartridges.

All season Stahl's men were known as a lucky ball team.

"Our festive ball-gown.

Youngsters not yet big enough to attend school begin quickening their eyesight and sharpening their wits and strengthening their hands and arms and legs by playing on base ball fields ready at hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages and the parks of cities all over the land.

As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, for there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, the fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column of victories as many games as possible brought forth the best efforts of the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck telling blows against Chicago's success at the most timely moments.

A sporting paper gives the following item: "Two nines, composed of members of BOOTH'S, WALLACK'S and the Olympic theatrical companies, played an interesting game of base-ball at the Union base-ball grounds, last week.

Splendid are its walks and grass-plots Where the bootblacks base-ball play, And its seats resembling toad-stools, On which loafers lounge all day, Waiting for their luck, or gazing

Charles inquires whether his handwriting is good enough to qualify him for membership in a base ball club.

There is a ball valve, fig.

He doesn't seem likely to go on very soon, along any line, does he?" "Shouldn't wonder if that car's ball-bearings ain't broken," said the sharp-nosed chauffeur.

Her dress, in short, achieved in its pure simplicity all at which the artistic skill of matrons, milliners, and maidens aims in a Parisian ball costume, without a shadow of that suggestive immodesty from which ball costumes are seldom wholly free.

" "You don't mean old ball bats, or your mud scow in the creek, or that kind of trash?" inquired Dale suspiciously.

" "You wouldn't let me set the ball rolling, would you?"

Ball suppers pp.

The king has duly obeyed the commands of the goddess, and to-day the princess, whose name is Kandukavati, will again perform the ball dance for the propitiation of Durgâ in the sight of the people here assembled.

Here and there, too, a Cannon-ball tree rose, grand and strange, among the Balatas; and in one place the ground was strewn with large white flowers, whose peculiar shape told us at once of some other Lecythid tree high overhead.

On ball nights, this room is appropriated for tea.

As the ball and the wheel lose momentum the ball strikes against the rods and finally is deflected into one of the many little pockets or stalls facing the rim of the wheel.

And on the sightless Eye-ball pour the Day. 'Tis he th' obstructed Paths of Sound shall clear, And bid new Musick charm th' unfolding Ear, The Dumb shall sing, the Lame his Crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding Roe; [No Sigh, no Murmur the wide World shall hear, From ev'ry Face he wipes off ev'ry Tear.

Hence the camp-ground of the Caribees was the matinee, ball-match, tennis, boating, all in one of the idle afternoon world of Warchester.

Forstwesen, Wien, 1908, pp. 443-456. : Testing the hardness of wood by means of the ball test.