He walked up to the wicket as coolly as though it were enclosed within a practice net, patted down the ground with the flat of his bat in a manner which seemed to imply that he had "come to stay," and then proceeded to hit three twos in his first "over.

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

Stahl batted to Tesreau and Gardner was forced out.

Hooper, who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began with a single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' wild throw the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and Lewis.

O thou whose bat of amber hangs o'er a moon below, Deal not to me so giddy, the anguish of a blow.

" Miss Hassiebrock batted at her lips and shuddered.

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.

Half fledged broods may be found blind as bats from fighting, and only waiting for the least glimmer of sight to be at it again.

Strachan was a good, free bat on his day, and, if he survived a few overs, might make a century in an hour, but he was not to be depended upon.

Charles Addams (A); 6Jan67; R401719. Lord & Taylor's window, bats among the bells in show window.

The proverbial Irish gun that could "shoot round a corner," would not be "in it" with a GUNN who could "bat against batting!"

When they aren't women, they take the shape of big bats like birds."

Others, seated among the ladies, looked into their bats as though in church.

They used a piece of drift wood for a bat, and when the shell got accidentally batted into the sea the Blue Water Children fielded it like fishes.

This retired the side, and the Kingstonians came in to bat amid a pleasant April shower of applause.

"It was," said Woodhouse, "more like a big bat than anything else in the world.

When I heard papa was coming to git me, I put cotton bats under the reels and kivered em up.

The Huns had concentrated the glare of numerous searchlights on the hub of the squadron's activities, so that the speeding planes could be seen darting hither and thither like bats during an August evening, darting around some arc-light in the street.

And at their feet sits Arthur, with his bat across his knees.

TERRAIN, m., espace de terre; lieu où l'on se bat en duel.

There were fine bats by the best makers for cricket, rods for trout fishing, splendid modified choke-bores, saddles, jockey caps, and so on.

Journalists flutter like bats about newspaper offices.