Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this support continue, and we shall not feel ashamed of our record. We are sure that those who accompanied the Nine do not regret having done so. The cause of our defeat was very evident. Do not accuse us of attributing it to "hard luck." Mr. Folsom did not pitch with his usual skill, and by his wild pitches and Yale's heavy batting, the game was lost. Considering what a strong pitcher Mr. Hutchinson is, our Nine did very good work at the bat. We have no cause to feel discouraged, and are confident Yale will find...
...needed. Mr. White is authority for the statement that in ordinary prose speaking, and also in metrical recitation, outside of the choruses, the syllables marked with acute accents, with circumflex accents, and with grave accents, were distinguished from one another and from unaccented syllables by a difference of pitch, confined within the interval known as a third. This difference of pitch is not wholly foreign to our own accentuation, but it was much more marked among Greeks, and resulted in a sort of sing-song tone. In the choruses the liberty of an octave was allowed, and where there...
...game between the 'Varsity and Freshmen, which was to have taken place last Monday, was deferred on account of Mr. Folsom's inability to pitch...
...world is pitch and pay. - Henry...
...pulling straight out into this ocean so typical of life, when I gradually ceased to be much elated over the result of my eclaircissements, and in fact didn't care much about Amy or myself or anybody else. My head began to whirl and ache, and with every pitch of the boat I longed to get to land somewhere, though it was on the bottom; and rather preferred the latter place. Amy looked at me in a frightened sort of a way, and wanted to know if I felt well; and, if I recollect aright, I informed her that...