Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out-door and In-door AmusementsCassell, 1896 - 975 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acid adversary allowed angle arms attached ball base batsman baulk birds boat body bottom bowler bowling boys cage called carbonic acid centre chlorine colour convex lens course croquet cylinder diameter direction distance dominoes edge eggs exercise fast bowling feet fixed foot forward fowls front galvanometer give glass goal halyards hand handle head heat hold hole hoop hydrogen inches keep kick king kite lathe legs length light marble metal move opponent opposite ordinary oxygen pass pawn phosphorus piece pigeons play player position practice ring round rowlocks Rugby Union rule sail score screw side spot spritsail square stand straight striker string stroke surface swing thick throw touch tube turn umpire wheel wicket wicket-keeper wire wood yards yawl
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 249 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Seite 323 - After a fault the server shall serve again from the same court from which he served that fault, unless it was a fault because served from the wrong court.
Seite 495 - The disciples of Plato contributed not a little to the advancement of optics, by the important discovery they made, that light emits itself in straight lines, and that the angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection. Plato terms colours " the effect of light transmitted from bodies, the small particles of which were adapted to the organ of sight" This seems precisely what sir Isaac Newton teaches in his " Optics,
Seite 780 - Oranges and lemons," Say the bells of St. Clement's. " You owe me five farthings, " Say the bells of St. Martin's. " When will you pay me? " Say the bells of Old Bailey. "When I grow rich,
Seite 324 - ... for that player ; on either player winning his third stroke, the score is called 40 for that player; and the fourth stroke won by either player is scored game for that player ; except as below : — If both players have won three strokes, the score is called deuce ; and the next stroke won by either player is scored advantage for that player.
Seite 28 - When there shall be more than four players on a side, there shall be no bounds. All hits, byes, and overthrows shall then be allowed.
Seite 718 - Nero was stated to measure eleven feet from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and his proportions were in other respects large.
Seite 95 - On rescuing a person by diving to the bottom the hair of the head should be seized by one hand only and the other used in conjunction with the feet in raising yourself and the drowning person to the surface. 8. If in the sea, it may sometimes be a great error to try to get to land. If there be a strong
Seite 95 - After a person has sunk to the bottom, if the water be smooth, the exact position where the body lies may be known by the air bubbles, which will occasionally rise to the surface, allowance being, of course, made for the motion of the water, if in...
Seite 322 - At the end of the first game the Striker-out shall become Server, and the Server shall become Striker-out ; and so on alternately in the subsequent games of the set.