This was something real, something to grasp, and struggle against, a beast with which to pit strength and skill.

Where once she made our hearts go pit-a-pat, To-day, alas, they only pity Patti.

It is madness to pit a man of eighty against this hour of danger.

Here, too, did George Selwyn and Charles Townshend pit their wit against wit; and here Pelham passed all the time he was not forced to devote to politics.

He chatters about love of "art," This actor's "method," that one's "school," And pits the stock against the star, With Contrast as his favorite rule.

"Pit your child into the mustard-pot, Mr. Terry," said the stage manager.

On seeing me smile, he asked the reason; and I answered: "What simpletons some of the breeders here must be to pit a Balâka cock against one of the Nârikela breed, which is sure to win.

We used generally to put down a few of the oldest professors, and let them pit couples against each other; the sport to the onlookers was most exciting.

That could be accomplished only by the death of Commodus: He laughed, as he thought of himself pitted alone against Commodus the deified, mad monster who could marshal the resources of the Roman empire!

Private Tosh, on being confronted with his winter trousseau, observed bitterly "I jined the Airmy for tae be a sojer; but I doot they must have pit me doon as a mountain goat!"

Often, too, he would conduct games at night, and sometimes he would pit dwarfs [Footnote: Reading [Greek: nanous] (Dindorf)] and women against each other.

We had to depend upon hearing alone, and when a white man pits his ears against those of a native he finds that he has been suffering from partial deafness without being aware of the fact.

We pitted the little ends of the eggs against one another, and the fellow whose egg cracked the other fellow's egg won it, and he carried it off.

It is not fair to pit a few chosen families against the great multitude of those who are continually working their way up into the intellectual classes.

Had he done so he would probably have met his mysterious assailant, pitting his naked fists against the knife.

(k) It is a fact recognized by all that a highly polished steel surface rusts much less easily than one which is roughened: also that a barrel which is pitted fouls much more rapidly than one which is smooth.

I longed to pit the Swiss and Herr Gluck in argument, but in sober thought had to give the laurel to the latter, because, in case of stress, one might, with his system, live on a trifle, while raw, nourishing food might be difficult to get in quantity.

she said, fiercely; "is it courteous to pit your guests like game-cocks for your pleasure?"

Wull we pit oors on?" "Awa' hame, and bile your held!" replied the unresponsive James.

Bismarck's attitude to him, as described in his Memoirs, is rather like that of an old family retainer who has earned by long and faithful service the right to assert his views and to pit his judgment against his master's.

The kettle in her lap and the dishpan full of great ripe cherries on the porch floor by her chair, she would pit and chat and peer out through the vines, the red juice staining her plump bare arms.

"It appears that all his friends, conspicuous among whom was Mr. Walter Hatherell, tried their very best to dissuade him from pitting his luck against that of Cohen, who had been having a most unprecedented run of good fortune.

"I never pit ma hand on it!"

o' heaven; O there's a soul beams in her ee, Ae blink o't maks are's spirit gladder, And ay the mair she geeks at me, It pits me aye in love the madder.

The same spirit of civic independence which caused the development of Ancient Greece by preventing the universal rule of one power, caused the Italians, under different conditions, to pit one master against another to attain the same end.