Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Upton received a severe fracture of the thumb on a foul tip and was obliged to retire. Bates and Shurtleff will be the pitchers tomorrow...
...reached first. Harvard played a fair game but batted too many balls high into the air. Cook and Mason batted especially well. Lowell '94, who played his first game on the 'varsity, took Corbett's place in right field; his running catch of a fly close to the foul line was the one brilliant feature of the game. The score...
...This race was won by S. Leipgold, Pastime A. C. from scratch in 7 m. 13 s. The mile team race between the B. A. A. and W. A. C. in which the chief interest of the evening centered was awarded to the former team on account of a foul...
...Bourget, Mr. Hapgood indulges at some length in an analytical discussion of certain phases of realism of the century, of a certain literary unrest which produces heroes like that one of M. Bourget's who "rots in science, dimly feels his rottoness, defends it in syllogisms, and turns its foul breath on the purest flower in sight." For all this, Mr. Hapgood has a moral and comes to the conclusion that "our discontent with the conditions of our life is an ill-natured confession of personal littleness." As a whole, the study has power, - although there is noticeable, here...
...family of Njal. The conspicuous character in this second part is Skarphethin, stalwart, always grimly smiling with his battle axe upraised. He kills his foster brother, and when at the Olthing a bully upbraids him, he smiled and striking forward said "Do now one of two things Thorkell foul-mouth, sheath your sword and set down or I'll drive the axe into your head, and cleave you down into the shoulders." Thorkell sat down. Njal and his sons are attacked and the house set on fire. Skarphethin makes a grand defence, and on his death his enemies said...