1083 examples of bat in sentences

These last are about a span long, and have two little membranous wings like those of a bat, by means of which they fly about a pike-length high from the water and a musket-shot in length, and sometimes drop upon the ships.

aw ne'er wur so woven afore; My back's welly brocken, mi fingers are sore; Aw've been starin' an' rootin' amung this Shurat, Till aw'm very near getten as bloint as a bat.

CHANCE OF LIVING NOW "I cannot describe my feelings, right off the bat," said Eddie Rickenbacker, the ace of American aces, the day following the signing of the armistice.

[80] road Dark with bat-haunted ashes stretching broad, Oft has she taught them on her lap to lay 265 The shining glow-worm; or, in heedless play, Toss it from hand to hand, disquieted; While others, not unseen, are free to shed Green unmolested light upon their mossy bed.

The lowest seats were full of trappers, smugglers, Canadian voyageurs, drinking and singing; Américains, toomore's the shamefrom the upper riverswho will not keep their seatswho ply the bottle, and who will get home by and by and tell how wicked Sodom is; broad-brimmed, silver-braided Mexicans, too, with their copper cheeks and bat's eyes and their tinkling spurred heels.

What a biographer, for example, or at least what a witness for some other biographer, was latent in the little boy who, when told by his teacher to define a bat, said: "He's a nasty little mouse, with injy-rubber wings and shoe-string tail, and bites like the devil."

His eyes were a bluish gray, and looked out upon the world with a reflective attention through gold-rimmed eye-glasses, with which he had a habit of amusing himself while talking, examining their mechanism and the knot of the fine black cord with a bat-like air of blindness.

Into the heart of my happiness would come the thought of that hidden spot; how often, oh, how often, would I feel that thought stir like a black bat!

Are you the bat boy here?' "'No,' I smugly replied.

"I'll never forget one day we were playing Pittsburgh, and it was Red Murray's turn to bat, with the score tied in the ninth inning.

She noted idly that the sound of the ball on the bat travelled but slowly upward, and reached her after the striker had begun to run.

It bears a remarkable resemblance to a bat with extended wings, and forms a series of girders to the arches of the cranium.

Don't go off your bat so easily.

He came home with the bacon from Candle Like a bat out of Hell, thru the snow, And the plunger that cashed in his "out tab" Was his pardner, the Old Sourdough.

One of the biggest of the bullocks was attacked one night by a vampire bat, and next morning his withers were literally bathed in blood.

CHACUN SE BAT POUR CE QU'IL N'A PAS Napoléon n'avait encore que vingt ans, lorsqu'un officier russe lui dit avec beaucoup de suffisance, que les Russes se battaient pour la gloire, et que les Français ne se battaient que pour l'argent.

"Vous avez parfaitement raison, répliqua Napoléon, car chacun se bat pour ce qu'il n'a pas.

Mr. Pump goes to bat.

SCHOLZ, JACKSON. Soldiers at bat.

SCHOLZ, JACKSON. Soldiers at bat.

The bat is my brother.

The bat knew it first.

If Nature had intended man to think she would not have given him ears, or, at any rate, she would have furnished them with air-tight flaps like the bat, which for this reason is to be envied.

R.C., who could handle an axe as he used to swing a baseball bat, made fun of my efforts.

I tried to interest Romer in some bat nests in crevices high up, but the boy wanted to roll stones and fish for the mullet.

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