Word: bounders
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...thing, as all his fans will remember, Hornblower has an unarmored spot over his heart. "The man who fired the broadside that shook the Renown off the mud when under the fire of red-hot shot was helpless when confronted by a couple of women." The heroic bounder slinks out on an affair of the heart with his landlady's daughter, and while the lass tearfully presses his uniform, spends the last 50 pages of the book at his club, playing whist...
Tabitha first appears as a young girl in a small English town, orphaned and stuck with a dull, painfully married elder brother. Thirsty for adventure, she runs off with Bonser, a jovial fast-talking bounder who peddles worthless shares in country pubs. Bonser juggles her on his knee and cuddles her in bed, but he runs out when her money does...
...along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...
...showed affection for Cook's offerings as soon as it saw them. Wilde led off the top of the first inning with a long home run over Bob Thompson's head in right field. Agganis' single, Cook's error on Hurley's bounder, a line triple by Gayzagian, and Lyons' single produced three more runs before the Crimson could get the third...
Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...