687 examples of athletic in sentences

The American college girl is not as yet transmuting her prowess of the athletic field into work on the anvil, as is the university woman in England, but she has demonstrated her manual strength and skill on the farm with plough and harrow.

We had an athletic contest last year and they beat us, carrying everything but the standing broad jump.

" "Dalzell," retorted Hepson impatiently, "you're a second classman, and you've been here long enough to know that no considerations of discipline will be made to stand aside in order that the Navy may have a better athletic team of any kind.

Franklin Field was reached, and one of the most brilliant athletic and social events of the year was on.

The form of the latter was athletic, and apparently drilled into a severer submission than could be seen in the movements of the liveried attendants: his dress was peculiar, being neither quite menial nor quite military, but partaking of both characters.

As he said, he did not feel tiredit was difficult for Stafford, with his athletic frame and perfect muscular system, to get tired under any circumstancesthe night was one of the loveliest he had ever seen, and it seemed wicked to waste it by going to bed, so he walked on, all unconsciously going in the direction of Heron Hall.

It seemed to her incredible and impossible, because Stafford's figure was slight and graceful, and he performed the feat with the apparent ease which he had learnt in the 'varsity athletic sports.

The mechanical athletic and acrobatic equipments of the show were superb.

Your Highness will, no doubt, be surprised when I inform you that this gentleman, so agile and so athletic, was no other than Lord Vernon!

So also young men in athletic training are strictly forbidden to use it.

Its phenomenal use by persons of all ages and in all stations of life, is proof of the enthusiasm with which this athletic exercise is employed by women as well as by men.

While this principle is perhaps more rigorously enforced in training for athletic contests, it applies equally to those who have in view only the maintenance of health.

You know I do so love athletic sports.

"In the meantime Hatherell has left the club: as fast as his athletic legs can carry him he rushes along Oxford Street and Portland Place.

And it had been such a wretched athletic year for the school.

When he thought of it at all now, he always previsioned himself being lifted in Peter's athletic arms and laid properly on his big four-poster.

I require tone (sinews) in the body, but such as exists in a healthy body, in an athletic body; but if it is plain to me that you have the tone of a frenzied man and you boast of it, I shall say to you, Man, seek the physician; this is not tone, but atony (deficiency in right tone).

After reckoning all these things, if you have still an inclination, go to the athletic practice.

I have seen enough in Trinidad, I saw enough even in little Monos, to be able to deny that; and to say that in the West Indies, as elsewhere, a young man can be pure, able, high-minded, industrious, athletic:

This ode again was written neither for a Nemean nor for any other athletic victory, but for the [Greek: eisitaeria] or initiatory ceremonies at the election of a new [Greek: prytanis] of Tenedos.

Those who knew hera young, athletic, merry-faced, open-air girl on the verge of budding womanhood, so true-hearted, frank, and freelittle dreamed of the terrible nature of that secret within her young heart.

Anyone who has witnessed modern athletic sports, and observed how a crowd will hem in the competitors so that only a few spectators can see, although an equally good view can be obtained by a great number if the ring is enlarged, will perceive Caius's object, and be slow to admit that he spoiled the show.

The athletic contests on the primitive little race-track proved the greatest attraction of all.

To see a venerable old man tied as if to be broken on the wheel, and cut to the bone by the lash of an athletic driverwrithing and yelling under the most exquisite torture, were certainly circumstances sufficiently strong to touch the heart of any one possessed of the smallest degree of common humanity.

Six athletic men were employed in this scene of inhumanity, the names of some of whom I well remember.

687 examples of  athletic  in sentences