We had orders to pitch a large tent at a suitable spot and to lighten ship of the doctor's personal and scientific effects.

The wiles of the Carthaginians cut off one of them by the sword as he was pitching his camp, and the other by surrounding him with lighted fagots after he had made his escape into a tower.

Tesreau pitched the opening game for New York and the first man to bat for Boston was Hooper.

They ploughed with horses, they ploughed with tractors, they sowed the seed, they thinned and weeded the plants, they reaped, they raked, they pitched the hay, they did fencing and milking.

Then came the wassailingworthy of the days of Arthurwine for the upper table; ale, medd, (mead,) and spirits for the other; and after all came the friendly contest at some manly gamewrestling, racing, pitching the bar, or the like.

Tesreau pitched first 7 innings of first game and is charged with defeat.

Such stars as were abroad at dawn left off their shrill winter pipingif it be true that stars really sing in their coursesand pitched their voices to April tunes.

For instance: The pitchers haden't very good eye-site, and were just as liable to pitch a ball to "2nd base," as to "Home base.

Before him gaped a black square, through which he darted, to pitch head first over some fat, padded bulk.

"When Williams brought me your note, vilely writtenwere you sober, Stafford?blandly asking me to join you in this mad business, I smiled to myself as I pitched the note on the fire.

Half a dozen in one group pitched silver dollars at a mark.

The men were camped about the fort, and half a mile away through the forest a hundred Indians had pitched their wigwams.

Why shouldn't he go and take one good drink, and then pitch off a ferry-boat into the East River, and so end the whole miserable muddle of life altogether?

I slithered down into the sheepfold, and pitched headforemost among the worshipping women.

The end of the race was a leap into the air that would have cleared a five-bar fence, and down pitched the fighting horse on braced legs again.

The foreman of the Jordan ranch pitched his rifle to his shoulder just as the leader, sweeping back to round up the rearmost of his company, presented a broadside target.

TO PITCH ALL TYPES OF ARMY TENTS, EXCEPT SHELTER AND CONICAL WALL TENTS.

" Tom did not say that he pitched the said volume into the river in disgust; and that it was, probably, long since used up as house material by the caddis-baits of those parts,for doubtless there are caddises there as elsewhere.

Collins pitched first 7-1/3 innings of second game, Hall followed for 2-2/3 innings and Bedient for 1 inning, but as game was tie no one has defeat or victory charged against him.

He passed to pitching sheaves of wheat and then to driving in the wagons.

Benson pitched the end of his cigar out of the window, and leaning back closed his eyes.

When this white knight came to the place where Sir Tristram and his companions had pitched their pavilions, he also stopped as Sir Ector and Sir Morganor had done, for he desired to know what knights these were.

He went through contortions, pitched coins against himself, and staggered around the room with a soda-water bottle at his lips, imitating a drunkard.

I pitch Colburn and his magazine to the divil.

He pitches his hands about with considerable activity, and often flings himself suddenly into a white-heat, tantrum of virtue, and the brethren like him when be does this.