Word: rest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...combination of superior playing on the part of your opponents, and the hard luck arising from inopportune base-hits, and errors made when they would be productive of most disastrous results. Leeds's beautiful, one-hand, jumping catch was the marked feature of the game. The score tells the rest...
...fair to say that Yale played her best game of the season, while we played our worst; that Yale was unusually fortunate at the bat, while we were particularly unfortunate, batting everything usually on the bound, into the hands of their fielders. The resume and score will tell the rest of the story...
...interrupted; "I ain't that sort. What I did was to take four or five pools on Yale before I left here; they were twenty-nine to six, you know, before the game. Then I went down to New Haven and bet the rest of my pile, and lost it, but then I raked in on the pools enough to cover my shorts...
...place between the races on Saturday. Those who complain may not always remember that much of the delay is occasioned by the fact that some men are entered for two consecutive races; and these men can hardly be expected to step from one boat into the other without some rest. Still the time that intervened between two successive races was, in nearly every case, unnecessarily long. We should like to call the attention of the several captains to this point in the races to-day; as we feel sure they have it in their power to expedite the getting ready...
...first line is very pretty, being a judicious combination of Ovid, Met. II. 29, and X. 1. This patching is quite legitimate, and we wish all the rest were similarly constructed. The fourth and fifth lines also are correct, metrically; but esuries is a terribly rare and unpoetical word. In line second, opibus has the o short, so it cannot begin a hexameter. In line third, the perfect of fundo is not fusi, and the line is very jerky. Risit would have scanned as well, and suited the other tenses better. In line sixth, coronae cannot begin a hexameter...