They shed their shoes and stockings and waded in the pool, enjoying the sport with shrieks of merry laughtermore because they were happy than that there was anything to laugh at.

I asked, somewhat petulantly, for it seemed as if the old man was making sport of me.

"I suppose I have been spoiling sport, keeping you here," she said good-humoredly; for it was well known that Miss Jervis and Mr. Brown were engaged, and that they were only waiting (everybody knew but Lady Mary, who never suspected it) the death of their mistress, to set up a lodging-house in Jermyn Street, where they fully intended to make their fortune.

From Putney upwards, in the Thames, some are found of large size; but they are valued only as affording sport to the brethren of the angle.

Ergimo, who kept close beside me, and who had often witnessed the sport before, kept me informed of what was proceeding underneath us, of which I could see but little.

The fringe of the course blazed with ladies' finery, and a tent had been set up with a wide awning from which the fashionables could watch the sport.

no, 'tis Christmas sport Of Hob-man-blind, all blind, all seek to catch, All missbut who comes here?

leapt over him, and pursued his sport.

He was too proud to submit, even for a moment, to be the object of ridicule, and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastick wit, and such a variety of degrading images, of every one of which I was the object, that, though I can bear such attacks as well as most men, I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company, that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort.

Thus we spent several days, having splendid sport, and first-rate appetites to do justice upon our prey.

Tactus, of all I long to see your objects; How comes it we have lost those pretty sports? TAC.

He was a plain manwhat we call a still, solid, prudent, quiet manand a dweller in tents: he lived peaceably, looking after his father's flocks and herds; while Esau liked better the sport and danger of hunting wild beasts, and bringing home venison to his father.

" "Now, by my faith," quoth Sir Richard, who loved good manly sports right well, "this will be a goodly thing to see.

And then, when the rigid old Pilgrims eyed her rather in pity than in wrath; when the matrons fed her with the fragments of their children's food, and offered her a lodging on a hard and lowly bed; when no little crowd of schoolboys left their sports to cast stones after the roving enthusiastthen did Catharine return to Pearson's dwelling, and made that her home.

Then said Robin, "For fourteen days have we seen no sport, so now I will go abroad to seek adventures forthwith.

The boat continued on until it reached the channel between islands No. 87 and No. 88, and there Mr. P. got out his lines and commenced to fish, trolling his bait behind as the boat slowly sailed, under the hot sun, among those lovely isles, where, to be sure, burning's half o' the sport, but where "burning SAPPHO" would have lost herself utterly, and probably have tumbled into some of the watery intricacies and have put herself out.

The Fat Boy has always furnished good sport to the Sam Wellers.

We occasionally had a pig-sticking meet here, and as the jungle was strictly preserved, we were never disappointed in finding plenty who gave us glorious sport.

I cover sports all the way from polo to golf.

I could not in any case have approved such publick violence of resentment, and should have considered any who encouraged it, as rather seeking sport for themselves, than honour for you.

Witness, again, the poet Milton, who introduces active sports among the recreations which he deemed worthy of angels, and (strange indeed for a Puritan!) included even dancing among the number.

I followed the sport so persistently, and paid so little attention to fences when they interfered with my going, that I got the appellation in the neighborhood of "that d Ñ d

Ye sonnes of Venus, play your sports at will!

In foul weather, or when they can use no other convenient sports, by reason of the time, as we do cock-fighting, to avoid idleness, I think, (though some be more seriously taken with it, spend much time, cost and charges, and are too solicitous about it)

A week passes away, during which Selkirk remains thoughtful and taciturn; he rarely leaves the shore; he still beholds the sports of his cats and his kids, but no longer smiles at them; Marimonda, by way of amusing him, renews in his presence her surprising feats, but the attention of the master is elsewhere.