Along the garden walk, and thence Through the wicket in the garden fence, I steal with quiet pace, My pitcher at the well to fill, That lies so deep and cool and still

Then the wicket of the great gates swung-to behind us, and we went into the open again.

He was a long way better than Neville-Smith, and Wyatt, and Milton, and the others who had taken wickets for Wrykyn.

The ball was well up, slow, and off the wicket on the on-side.

As a matter of fact the wickets at Sedleigh were nearly always good.

We entered together the gloomy vestibule, and a moment later were let out through the wicket into the courtyard; and as the lock clicked behind us, we gave a simultaneous sigh of relief to find ourselves outside the precincts of the prison, beyond the domain of bolts and bars.

A flagged path went from the wicket to the door of the north transept.

It would be like going to the wicket with the certainty of making as many runs as you liked.

He charged up to the wicket as a wounded buffalo sometimes charges a gun.

ses the skipper, shutting the wicket behind 'em.

The other day, however, he made a slight error; for, on being appealed to for the most palpable piece of "stumping" ever seen in the cricket field, the ball bouncing back on to the wicket from the wicket-keeper's pads while the batsman was two yards out of his ground, he said, "Not out; it hit the wicket-keeper's pads.

The entrance door was in a gable-wall at the side of the fireplace, and was so narrow that it was more like a wicket than a door.

She and Harry Goldthwaite were on one side, and they led off their whole party, going nonchalantly through wicket after wicket, as if they could not help it; and after they had well distanced the rest, just toling each other along over the ground, till they were rovers together, and came down into the general field again with havoc to the enemy, and the whole game in their hands on their own part.