Well, the match is for the best of three goals; whichever side kicks two goals wins: and it won't do, you see, just to kick the
ball through these posts--it must go over the cross-bar; any height'll do, so long as it's between the posts.
"No, my dear, for me there are no
balls now where one enjoys oneself," said Anna, and Kitty detected in her eyes that mysterious world which was not open to her.
The gardener nodded and began to fling up the
balls, which were picked up by La Ramee and the guard.
He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pock- ets with the scraps of paper that became hard
balls and were thrown away.
This was a little joke of John's; he used to say that a regular course of "the Birtwick horseballs" would cure almost any vicious horse; these
balls, he said, were made up of patience and gentleness, firmness and petting, one pound of each to be mixed up with half a pint of common sense, and given to the horse every day.
He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing cannon
balls at the French with both hands.
But now I want to talk about the
ball; and to tell you that you positively must put off your holidays till it is over.'
'at the door, that lifted my
ball for me out of the spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'
The Beaufort house was one that New Yorkers were proud to show to foreigners, especially on the night of the annual
ball. The Beauforts had been among the first people in New York to own their own red velvet carpet and have it rolled down the steps by their own footmen, under their own awning, instead of hiring it with the supper and the ball-room chairs.
He had caught the
ball too high on the bat, and I just missed the catch.
The prospect of the Netherfield
ball was extremely agreeable to every female of the family.
One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the
ball completely satisfactory to Emmaits being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr.
If they were at home to grace the
ball, a
ball you would have this very Christmas.
She wore the sea- green silk which had been brought out from England a year before and worn but once--at the Christmas
ball at Government House.
Presently the boy took a
ball from his tunic, and, pointing at a little bush near them, said, "Stand you there, Lady Maud, by yonder bush, I would play at toss."
