Word: mounds
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...drawn to a bird [female cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately fly to a spot in the hedge a little farther on. Following her up I saw she had got to a nest...
...Manager Billy Southworth chose the Beaze for the second game of the series, even his staunchest admirers feared he would blow up with World Series jitters. The kid was walloped for ten hits, got into one jam after another, but at the last out he was still on the mound, the first rookie to win a Series game since Paul Dean trimmed the Detroit Tigers for St. Louis...
...Cooper and Wyatt were on the mound again and it was happening all over again, only not quite the same way. During August the scrappy young Cardinals had come up from behind until now they were only two games behind the faltering Dodgers. Cooper had not lost a game since he discarded his No. 13 shirt in disgust, and begun borrowing that teammate's shirt whose number corresponded to the number of the game he wanted...
...friend, his lawyer, had been unable to prevent the gruesome lynching of his one good child, Wee Boy. The bankers were forced to sell every inch of land Old Man Towne had ever owned. When the old man heard that, he died. The lawyer buried him in an Indian mound, and the Negroes raised above him their rich shout of "resurrection and green pastures and surcease of toil...
...fans it looked like the good old days. The Babe, swinging two bats, stepped up to the plate with choppy little strides of his matchstick legs. Farmer Johnson shuffled awkwardly around the mound, his long right arm winding up the historic sidearm delivery. The first pitch was low and inside, the second a called strike. Ruth popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases...