Dog and DuckA.A. Knopf, 1924 - Всего страниц: 226 |
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... walls , and seems the very place for an old - world game . Bowls , once the favourite game of the clergy and of dignified and elderly persons generally , used to be played in just such surroundings . And Dog and Duck , like Bowls , is a ...
... walls , and seems the very place for an old - world game . Bowls , once the favourite game of the clergy and of dignified and elderly persons generally , used to be played in just such surroundings . And Dog and Duck , like Bowls , is a ...
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... it passes the Duck which marks the fourth Chace , the player scores forty . But there are penalties and difficulties . The ball must not leave the alley . It may , indeed , skim on the edge of the tiles , or walls 12 Dog and Duck.
... it passes the Duck which marks the fourth Chace , the player scores forty . But there are penalties and difficulties . The ball must not leave the alley . It may , indeed , skim on the edge of the tiles , or walls 12 Dog and Duck.
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... Walls " and is revelling in " Grounds , " or more rarely is disporting itself on the lawn . The fact is that a ball with sufficient force be- hind it to round the left - hand ... wall at exactly the right angle , and then " 13 Dog and Duck.
... Walls " and is revelling in " Grounds , " or more rarely is disporting itself on the lawn . The fact is that a ball with sufficient force be- hind it to round the left - hand ... wall at exactly the right angle , and then " 13 Dog and Duck.
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Arthur Machen. wall at exactly the right angle , and then " bring it low , " make it come round the D close to the top wall , and at last swing it triumphantly round the corner , perhaps to Chace IV , the Duck , and a score of forty ...
Arthur Machen. wall at exactly the right angle , and then " bring it low , " make it come round the D close to the top wall , and at last swing it triumphantly round the corner , perhaps to Chace IV , the Duck , and a score of forty ...
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... walls " at all , to left or right , but wheels round the curve of the D in a perfect orbit . Old players who have seen Top- lady at work have assured me that these white balls of his looked as if they were running in tapes . The Game of ...
... walls " at all , to left or right , but wheels round the curve of the D in a perfect orbit . Old players who have seen Top- lady at work have assured me that these white balls of his looked as if they were running in tapes . The Game of ...
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Стр. 33 - ... were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome of the place, with amphitheatre, baths, temples, and everything necessary for the comfort of a Roman-Briton. And the Legion brought over the custom of the strena (French, etrennes), the New Year's Gift of good omen. The apple, with its...
Стр. 110 - Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with .pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
Стр. 19 - prentice notch'd he strait doth call, Where's dame? (quoth he) — quoth son of shop, She's gone her cake in milke to sop. Ho ! ho ! — to ISLINGTON — enough — Fetch Job my son, and our dog Ruffe ; For there, in pond, through mire and muck, We'll cry, hay, duck — there Ruffe — hay, duck,
Стр. 210 - The word bottom thus introduced was so ludicrous when contrasted with his gravity, that most of us could not forbear tittering and laughing; though I recollect that the Bishop of Killaloe kept his countenance with perfect steadiness, while Miss Hannah More...
Стр. 32 - ... to be the disproportionate fruit of these small trees. At last, three bits of stick were fixed into the base of the apple, tripod-wise, and so it was borne round from house to house; and the children got cakes and sweets, and — those were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome...