Word: pats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty inches than when it is at twenty-nine inches. At cricket, even with the most perfect wickets, the break must be notably affected by accidental peculiarities of the ground. We have all of us seen the champion step forth from his place, while the ball was dead, to pat the ground where the ball was likely to pitch, and we have even occasionally seen him apparently successful in discovering some small stone or lump of hard earth which he has incontinently thrown away. (It has been said by the scoffing herd that the missile is not always seen...
...sober people even than the college crews are composed of. But now that the laugh is over, is it not about time for Harvard, Yale and Columbia to beat Pennsylvania and so establish their right to laugh? It might turn out to be the old story of the jovial Pat who was glad he had his laugh before he got over the fence to try the funny experiment of running the bull's nose into the ground. [Brunonian...
...That Rascal, Pat...
...Pat Woggerty, a handy servant Mr. Belshaw...
Nancy, in love with Pat Mr. Cushing...