Any group of college and Manhattan Trade School girls could be pitted against a group of women from the farms and win the laurels in staying powers.

"I hope, as I have gone through the malady, it has not left me pitted.

The trouble with the Army and Navy teams, in athletics, is that we're always pitted against college men who are bigger and older than we are.

The horses were over their hocks all the time, and the place was pitted with rabbit-holes; but the hounds were still streaming along, and the riders could not afford to pick their steps.

SCENE.A shell-pitted plain and a cavalry regiment under canvas thereon.

" She turned to him, and her milk-white face was grey-white, ashen; the skin had a slack, pitted look, suddenly old.

Now the rich and poor are fairly pitted; we shall see who can hang or burn fastest.

(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.

Pitted against the trained minds and the wealth of other nations, he had gone forth a very David to battle, and, like David, the simplicity of his missile had given him the victory.

Should you get near enough, you would see that these branches, some of which seem to bear flowers in shapes like pinks or lilies, are dented or pitted as if tiny teeth had eaten into them.

Each day their faces were pitted with shot, each night the Russians repaired the damages.

So when he came to us from the sick-room, soured and crestfallen because disease had deeply pitted and seamed that feature which had formerly been his pride, she laughingly whispered, "Well, I don't care, my nose could never look like his, even if I had the smallpox, for there is not so much of it to spoil.

There was about seventy-five yards between the two trench lines at that point, and the No Man's Land was rough goingall shell-pitted as it was.

The brick walls of many of the houses round were pitted and pocked and scarred by the shell fragments.

The navigator screamed as the ship whipped by a pitted rock a quarter of a mile long, missing it by a few yards.

As for the men, he not only pitted one against another in the Forum, as had been customary, but he also in the hippodrome brought them together in companies, horsemen against horsemen, fighters on foot against similar contestants, and others that were a match for one another indiscriminately.

Pitted against Judas and his followers were apostates of his own race, who knew the land, were able to spy out the movements of the Jews, and were inspired by the bitterest hatred.

There would be exchange of news as well as of commodities, and a friendly rivalry in the matter of tales of adventurethe planter's story of Indian attacks being pitted against the captain's yarn of the "pyrats" that gave him chase off the "Isle of Devils."

Our limits do not permit us to discuss the relative merits of subsoil and trench ploughing, which by some writers have unwisely been pitted against each otheras if they were in reality methods of improving the land, either of which a man may equally adopt in any soil and under all circumstances.

The grass might have been piled against hurdles or light frame-work and so dried by the wind; it might have been pitted in the earth and preserved still green; or it might have been dried by machinery and the hot blast.

And I'd pitted him against Bedford to live

In return, the backwoodsmen, by firing into the ports, soon rendered it impossible for the guns to be run out and served, and killed or severely wounded six or eight of the garrison; for the Americans showed themselves much superior, both in marksmanship and in the art of sheltering themselves, to the British regulars and French Canadians against whom they were pitted.

It is worthy of notice that though the Indians were defeated, and though they were pitted against first-class rifle shots, they yet had but five men killed and a very few wounded.

On the one side, the manufacturers or the large furnishing firms have a strong case in their contention that the public will go to the market it considers the best: and when decoration is pitted against simplicity, though the construction which accompanies the former be ever so faulty, the more pretentious article will be selected.

I mean that no one would think that, if there were no chance of a real war, it would be a good thing to evoke such self-sacrifice by having manoeuvres in which the best youth of the country were pitted against each other, to kill each other if possible.