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...eath the stars), to which there was a hollow window seat, in which, with a spring lock, three dear Adas might have been lost at once. Out of this room... ...re the fire telling Richard how fond he used to be, in his school time, of football. He was a little bright creature with a rather large head, but a d... ...uld be strewn with roses; it should lie through bowers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer. Age or change should neve... ... Charles the First—I mean, of course, in the wicked days of the rebels who leagued themselves against that excellent king—Sir Morbury Dedlock was the ... ...s and cross avenues of wintry trees! And, when next beheld, let it be some leagues away, with the Gate of the Star a white speck glittering in the sun... ...k House – Vol. One cupied that very ground. Says he, ‘Sir, why did you eat spring lamb at eighteen pence a pound?’ ‘Why did I eat spring lamb at eight... ...Smallweed inquires, slowly rubbing his legs. “Pretty much as usual. Like a football.” He is a swarthy brown man of fifty, well made, and good looking,...

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...eath the stars), to which there was a hollow window seat, in which, with a spring lock, three dear Adas might have been lost at once. Out of this room... ...re the fire telling Richard how fond he used to be, in his school time, of football. He was a little bright creature with a rather large head, but a d... ...uld be strewn with roses; it should lie through bowers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer. Age or change should neve... ... Charles the First—I mean, of course, in the wicked days of the rebels who leagued themselves against that excellent king—Sir Morbury Dedlock was the ... ...s and cross avenues of wintry trees! And, when next beheld, let it be some leagues away, with the Gate of the Star a white speck glittering in the sun... ...ak House – Dickens cupied that very ground. Says he, ‘Sir, why did you eat spring lamb at eighteen pence a pound?’ ‘Why did I eat spring lamb at eight... ...Smallweed inquires, slowly rubbing his legs. “Pretty much as usual. Like a football.” He is a swarthy brown man of fifty, well made, and good looking,...

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...s for our home return: Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon, We came aboard. A league from Epidamnum had we sail’d, Before the always wind obeying deep ... ...ily term’d them merciless to us! For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues, We were encounterd by a mighty rock; Which being violently borne... ...ome. DROMIO OF EPHESUS : Am I so round with you as you with me, That like a football you do spurn me thus? You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me h... ...st the poison of thy flesh, Being strumpeted by thy contagion. Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed; I live unstain’d, thou undishonored. ... ...hat you have quite forgot A husband’s office? shall, Antipholus. Even in the spring of love, thy love springs rot? Shall love, in building, grow so ru... ...CUSE : Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know. LUCIANA: It is a fault that springeth from your eye. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE : For gazing on your bea...

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...find my bride) Went forth again with both my friends. We rode Many a long league back to the North. At last From hills, that looked across a land of... ... tresses falsely brown, Shot sidelong daggers at us, a tiger-cat In act to spring. At last a solemn grace Concluded, and we sought th... ...tion crabbed and gnarled. Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump A league of street in summer solstice down, Than hammer at this reverend gent... ...than by single act Of immolation, any phase of death, We were as prompt to spring against the pikes, Or down the fiery gulf as talk of it, To compass ... ... day.’ She spake With kindled eyes; we rode a league beyond, And, o’er a bridge of pinewood crossing, came On flowery lev... ...other’s fame, Full of weak poison, turnspits for the clown, The drunkard’s football, laughing-stocks of Time, Whose brains are in their hands and in t... ...with the old king across the lawns Beneath huge trees, a thousand rings of Spring In every bole, a song on every spray Of birds that piped their V ale...

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...and butter for growing lads— but some parents, unduly pampering their off- spring, insisted on it. Philip noticed that ‘extras’ gave boys a cer- tain ... ...eet. He tucked them under the bench. In the afternoon they went up to play football, but Mr. Watson stopped Philip on the way out after dinner. “I sup... ...tson stopped Philip on the way out after dinner. “I suppose you can’t play football, Carey?” he asked him. Philip blushed self-consciously . “No, sir.... ... Sometimes they seemed to think that it was his fault if he could not play football, and he was unable to make them understand. He was left a good dea... ...gs, became very devout. He heard soon that it was possible to join a Bible League, and wrote to Lon- don for particulars. These consisted in a form to... ... prove the earnestness of the applicant’s desire to become a member of the League, and partly to cover clerical expenses. Philip duly sent the papers ... ...they were committed under the direct inspiration of God. The method of the League was to alternate a book of the Old Testament with a book of the New,... ...Bondage after Easter than after Christmas. It’ll be much pleasanter in the spring than in midwinter. If at the end of the next term you still want to ... ...hey had upon Philip; they seemed to make his life very hum- drum. With the spring Hayward grew dithyrambic. He proposed that Philip should come down t...

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...from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse ... ...beggars, and the like. And here we were again:—years had rolled by, many a league of ocean had been traversed, and we were thrown together under circu... ...old mortal all at once sinking into a decline, she might, some dark night, spring a leak and carry us all to the bot- tom. However, she played us no s... ...nother boat, and then darted into the cabin to tell the captain the news. Springing on deck again, he drove down into the forecastle for a couple of ... ...have been our latitude and longi- tude at any particular time, or how many leagues we voy- aged on our passage to T ahiti, are matters about which, I ... ...pe Yarn, crawling close up to him. “Avast! avast!” roared Jermin, making a spring toward Bembo, and dashing two or three of the sailors aside. At this... ...were instituted. Among their everyday amusements were dancing, tossing the football, kite-flying, flute-playing, and singing traditional ballads; now,...

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...insen- sible to the restraints of prison or the scantiness of our rations, I remembered I had sometimes eaten quite as ill in Spain, and had to mount ... ...rabas to the tribune.’ ‘Very well,’ said I. ‘I have to inform you that I am a gentleman. You do not know what that means, hey? Well, I will tell you. ... ...ell how you knew nothing of the matter, and were only awakened by the corporal, and all the rest of it—I translated your statements into something els... ...ow it sig- nified no more to me than to offer the transition I required. ‘My dear friends,’ I said—‘for you must allow me to call you that, who have n... ...others. You see me set here on the top of this rock in the midst of your city. Even with what liberty I have, I have the opportunity to see a myriad r... ...come forth on a good thoroughfare, which led (as well as I could judge) in my direction. It brought me almost immediately through a piece of street, w... ... handy,’ said I. ‘I’d better go at once and show it to the old gal, ‘adn’t I?’ he asked. I told him, by all means; and he was gone upon the in- stant,...

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...nd cigar of the day. “Yes, it’s a mighty fine morning,” said Littlefield. “Spring coming along fast now.” “Yes, it’s real spring now, all right,” said... ...s—considering.” “Well—” uneasily. “Darn fine morning,” Babbitt explained. “Spring com- ing along fast.” “Yes, it’s real spring now.” The victim had no... ... raged or rejoiced with equal ner- vous swiftness, and to-day the light of spring was so win- some that he lifted his head and saw. He admired each di... ...n active and smoke-misted billiard room, it is represented by baseball and football teams, and in the pool and the gymnasium a tenth of the members sp... ...ell, I guess he called up the Credit Association and the American Security League to see if I was all right— he certainly took long enough—or maybe he... ...s like a furnace. McKelvey had been the hero of the Class of ’96; not only football captain and hammer-thrower but debater, and passable in what the S... ...his Dora Gibson Tucker that runs the Child Welfare and the Americanization League, and the only reason she’s got Drew beaten is because she has got so... ..., dad, you certainly did show up that poor boot when he got flip about the League of Nations!” “Well, the trouble with a lot of these fellows is, they... ...d. Ted was “going in for” everything but books. He had tried to “make” the football team as a light half-back, he was looking forward to the basket-ba...

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...he bridge, to reflect in freshness on its won- ders; though a phrase could spring him alive to them; a sug- gestion of the Foreigner, jealous, condemn... ... by the riverside, 9 George Meredith to the front of the summer sunset, a league or so down stream; where he sees, in memory savours, the Elysian end... ...s day of bitter wind, or a silken kerchief for the throat. Faithful to the Spring, it had been his habit since boyhood to show upon his person somethi... ...er to reassure his friend, as he intended. ‘You wouldn’t credit it for the Spring of the year, without the spotless waist- coat?’ ‘Something of that, ... ...course) which others cannot do? Colney asks; and he ex- cludes cricket and football. An acutely satiric man in an English circle, that does not resort... ...ances; frightens the supple Signor Jeridomani to lingual fixity; eulogizes Football, with Dr. Bouthoin; and retracts, or modifies, his dictum upon the... ...tleman, you know: he cares only for sport; Shooting, Fishing, Hunting; and Football, Cricket, Rowing, and matches. He’s immensely proud of England in ...

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...he return voyage, and to many a meeting in the sanded inn, when those who had parted in the spring of youth should again drink a cup of kindness in th... ...sion. It was in vain for me to argue that here was pleasure ready-made and running from the spring, whereas his ploughs and butter-churns were but mea... ...he people’s annual bellyful of corn and steam-engines. It may be argued that these opinions spring from the de- fect of culture; that a narrow and pin... ...easant plott of ground, enclosed round with an earthen wall, wherein they were wont to play football, but now at the Gowff and byasse- bowls. The hous... ...re taken shape in some significant and dramatic situation. It was hence that Gruise and his leaguers led Charles the Ninth a prisoner to Paris. Here, ... ...s, and waved it glo- riously in the air. ‘This comes from America,’ he cried, ‘six thousand leagues away!’ And the wine-shop audience looked upon it w...

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...tales that were founded on the decay and revival of nature in win- ter and spring, and with a presage running through them of sacrifice, death, and re... ...azar, heard the wish. Between their mountain fastness and the dearly loved spring lay the host of the Philistines; but their love for their leader fea... ...hrough the midst of the enemy’s army, and drew the water from the favorite spring, bearing it back, once again through the foe, to the tower upon the ... ...as proclaimed chief of his tribe. All the neighboring tribes joined in the league against the common enemy, and tidings were brought to Caesar that th... ...where the tolls had been particularly vexatious, and of admitting to their league the cities of Sempach and Richensee. Leopold and all the neighboring... ...nces of hers will prove such dances that she will spurn off our heads like footballs, but it will not be long ere her head will take the same dance.’ ...

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...s book. It remains essentially right, a pam- phlet story—in support of the League to Enforce Peace. K. 4 The War in the Air THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTE... ...ower-pots in the greenhouse that occupied the next yard but one. And then, springing from nowhere, sustained one knew 14 The War in the Air not how, ... ...rly the lightness of everything, the use of exhausted aluminium tubing, of springy cushions inflated with com- pressed hydrogen; the partitions were h... ... As that fact shaped itself in the public mind, there sprang up, as flames spring up, an angry repudiation. “No!” cried New York, waking in the dawn. ... ...f the cabin by the air wave of the explosion. The Vaterland bounded like a football some one has kicked and when they looked out again, Union Square w... ... We left before the finish. We got disabled and unmanageable, and our col- leagues—consorts I mean—were too busy most of them to trouble about us, and... ...uptly something dropped from the zenith; something like a barrel or a huge football. Crash! It smashed with an immense report. It had fallen among the... .... They wore a sort of uniform of red golfing jack- ets and white sweaters, football singlet, and stockings and boots and each had let his fancy play a...

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... played them in bursts, and then forgot them for long periods; through the spring and sum- mer I was mostly out of doors, and school and classes caugh... ...ther too, dear lady, was something of a terror to this microcosm. She wore spring-sided boots, a kind of boot now vanished, I believe, from the world,... ...e captured dragon crocodile, tamed now, and his key lost and the heart and spring gone out of him. And to the various irregular reading of my father I... ...y bedtime. I spent my half holidays at school in order to play cricket and football. This, and a pretty voracious appetite for miscellaneous reading w... ...I rolled over and sat up to discover them all making off, a ragged flight, footballing my cap, my City Merchants’ cap, amongst them. I leapt to my fee... ...st Pinky Dinky style, and pretended to be in earnest about nothing but our football and cricket, to mourn the abolition of “water,” and find a shudder... ...nd princes were usurpers and knew it, religious teachers were impostors in league with power, the economic system was an elaborate plot on the part of... ...e new reorganisation!” We planned half in earnest and half Utopianising, a League of Social Service. We talked of the splendid world of men that might... ...er? … We have wasted four days in that hot close place. When we found that League of Social Service we were talking about,” he said with a de- termine...

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...but Josephine and Jim were new acquaintances,—fairly new. One day in early spring Lilly had a telegram, “Coming to see you arrive 4:30—Bricknell.” He ... ...ckily to Jim’s side. But it was a lovely day, the first of all the days of spring, with crocuses and wall-flowers in the cottage gardens, and white co... ...two stalls of golden and blue flowers, gay. “The flowers are lovely in the spring sunshine,” said Lilly. “I wish I were in the country, don’t you? As ... ... and you’ve got the machines of war—so how are you going to get out of it? League of Nations?” “Damn all leagues. Damn all masses and groups, anyhow. ... ...e. They were all laughing. They rolled back a great rug as if it were some football game, one flew at the curtains. And they merely looked at Aaron an... ... did. But she seemed to think that the whole of the male human race was in league against the miserable specimen of a she-dog. She almost cried, think...

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...ce of your Mama.’ ‘I can remember my Mama,’ returned the child, with tears springing to her eyes, ‘in any frock.’ ‘But people put on black, to remembe... ...er, never, never to part any more.’ ‘It was my Mama!’ exclaimed the child, springing up, and clasping her round the neck. ‘ And the child’ s heart,’ s... ... in the air, mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. Hot springs and fiery eruptions, the usual attendants upon earthquakes, lent th... ...s two rows of teeth bristling as if he would have bitten him, ‘what is the league between you and this young man, in virtue of which I am haunted and ... ...ways been estranged. She had crossed him every way and everywhere. She was leagued against him now. Her very beauty softened natures that were obdu- r... ...her what Edith was, and bade her follow her, since they had always been in league. She did not sink down at his feet; she did not shut out the sight o... ...ing and extending his influence, until the business and its owner were his football; and saw you toiling at your obscure desk every day; and was quite...

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...Clovelly?” he puffed at last, and they flung themselves down on the short, springy turf between the drone of the sea below and the light summer wind a... ...nior who had passed his Army Preliminary and hoped to enter Sandhurst next spring. Aladdin came to his own at last, Abanazar lay poisoned on the floor... ...rgently to the school that even Stalky and McTurk, who affected to despise football, played one Big-Side game seriously. They were forthwith promoted ... ...y tossed it into a glove and foil locker. Then, as though he had touched a spring, broke out the low murmur of content, changing to quick-volleyed han... ...n a steamer, his passage paid into the wide and wonderful world—a thousand leagues beyond Lundy Island. King dropped him with a snarl. Rudyard Kiplin...

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...retch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching bre... ...s in a character; so that a fair pan of a book outstripping thou- sands of leagues when unrolled may he compassed in one comic sitting. For verily, sa... ...reason refreshed is floriferous, like the magical great gale of the shifty Spring deciding for Summer. You hear it giving the delicate spirit his libe... ... but cherish your reverence. Young Willoughby made a kind of shock-head or football hero of his gallant distant cousin, and wondered occasionally that... ...ted her so; but his enthusiastic patriotism was like a shower that, in the Spring season of the year, sweeps against the hard-binding East and melts t... ...n person. One!” He took the one—love’s mystical number—from which commonly spring multitudes; but, on the present occasion, it was a single one, and c... ...general said of his ammunition and transport, there’s the army!—but it was leagues in the rear. Like the footman who went to sleep after smelling fire... ...unged into the arms of Sir Willoughby. “One has to catch the fellow like a football,” exclaimed the injured gentleman, doubled across the boy and hold...

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...he game. T wo years passed, and it was time for me to move up to the minor league. It was terrifying at first, considering that I was one of the small... ...ifying at first, considering that I was one of the smallest players in the league and my coach was now pitching the ball to us. When it was my turn to... ... skills as well. This was just the beginning of my baseball career. Little league was the happiest time of my life, but I lost interest in the game du... ...n. TRAGEDY IN THE NIGHT Danielle Gehman 12 Best of Four O N A WARM, early spring May morning, my six feet, gray haired grandfather with a protrudi... ...hing. The first time that I was ever drunk was at a keg party thrown by my football team. The party was to celebrate the end of our doubles sessions. ... ...essions. Doubles sessions, which are also called two-a-days, are a type of football practice. They are two practices a day, which are run before the s... ... two and a half hours. We were all drunk and running around trying to play football. We ended up throwing the football into a pond that we were playin... ...e it first hand, but many do. A shooting victim at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon once remarked, “I realized something terrible had happe...

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... have student literary publica- tions as well. At the end of each fall and spring semester, we send out an email call for papers to the various campus... ...n the tent only a few mo- ments before clearing the sleep from my eyes and springing out of my sleeping bag to greet the mourn- ing. Dew droplets stil... ...h Cara Hazleton – English 15 Joe Paterno: He Is Penn State THE COLLEGE football world has gone mad. Conferences are doing battle in courtrooms ins... ...has gone mad. Conferences are doing battle in courtrooms instead of on the football field. Teams are leaving their conferences and throwing tradition ... ... Bowl Championship Series was supposed to end the confusion in the college football post season. It was supposed to crown a true champion. Instead, th... ...ssional-grade equipment is going to be very ex- pensive. An official major league baseball, identical to the ones they use in games, costs over ten do...

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...entiment—when all this is considered, the scene that was witnessed on that spring day at Tuskegee was a remarkable one. I believe there are few places... ...for an opportunity being given me to make the second address there. In the spring of 1895 I received a telegram from prominent citizens in Atlanta ask... ...e air, the trees, the shrubbery, the flowers, and the sweet fragrance that springs from a hun- dred plants, enjoying the chirp of the crickets and the... ... or Poland China pig. Games I care little for. I have never seen a game of football. In cards I do not know one card from another. A game of old-fashi... ... effort, I organized 191 Booker T. Washington the National Negro Business League, which held its first meeting in Boston, and brought together for th... ... first meeting. Out of this national meeting grew state and local business leagues. In addition to looking after the executive side of the work at Tus...

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...oth out my flood lest unhappily I bear away their walls? Will Indra dry my springs in the hills and make me crawl humbly between their wharfs? Shall I... ...ch as the boys sing when they watch their cattle in the noon heats of late spring. The Parrot screamed joyously, sidling along his branch with lowered... ...continually, and have no pleasure in our heavens so long ,as a green blade springs here, or there are two voices at twilight in the standing crops. Wi... ...t, well-worn bridle. “My word!” said Who’s Who. “We must give ‘em a little football. These gentlemen need a rubbing down.” “No biting,” said The Malte... ...” The Archangels came down like a wolf on the fold, for they were tired of football, and they wanted polo. They got it more and more. Just after the g... ...re clearly over- matched. After this they gave the Archangels five-minuted football; and an expensive fast pony hates football because it rumples his ... ...rtment now speeding Plymouthward. Yet I was, in spirit at least, a million leagues removed from that unhappy man of another nationality, who had chose... ...ded with gardens, all moist and dripping; and in one room, reached through leagues of whitewashed passages, a Sick Thing lay in bed. Now the least noi...

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...e of the blind old bard. In what can I be serviceable to ye, lady?” and to spring from his desk, to smooth his apron, to stand before her the obedient... ...acclesfield’s gold, to enable us to eat of those cates and mingle with yon springalds and beaux.” “To vaunt a knowledge of the stoical philosophy,” sa... ...mendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. Soult I could see quite pale on the wall; and the ... ...e, and I have good cause to know his power. Gujputi is an enchanter: he is leagued with devils; he is invulnerable. Look,” said I, unsheathing my dagg... ...in and ran—the whole host ran as one man: their screams might be heard for leagues. “Tomasha, tomasha,” they cried, “it is enchantment!” A way they fl... ...ne out by the result. His good steed, which could trot at a pinch fourteen leagues in the hour, brought him to this famous castle, just as the warder ... ...sty from the Queen after he came in from the assault, came spinning like a football out of the royal tent just as Ivanhoe entered it. “Send me my drum...

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...my. Swindlers were emboldened to take offices; label themselves Anti-Enemy Leagues; and simply pocket the money that was heaped on them. Attractively ... ...ly and effectively as if it had been actually visible. For example, in the spring of 1915 there was an appalling slaughter of our young soldiers at Ne... ... That men might come for their choosing, and their betters spring from their love; But one of them married a numskull; HECTOR [t... ...it? MANGAN [shortly]. If you want to know, my name’s Alfred. MRS HUSHABYE [springs up]. Alfred!! Ellie, he was chris- tened after Tennyson!!! MANGAN [... ... to come reli- gion over me. In this house a man’s mind might as well be a football. I’m going. [He makes for the hall, but is stopped by a hail from ...

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...e nomadism of its barbarous tribes, but travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter. In the e... ...ade, and though sel- dom named, exalt his business to his imagination. The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile fro... ...in heroic hands. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap per- sons, where no friendship can be. Our... ...ke a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils or at football. Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon po... ...s no sleep, no pause, no preservation, but all things renew, germinate and spring. Why should we import rags and relics into the new hour? Nature abho... ...r America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men. It is in vain that we ...

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... and fell back dead. One lioness remained, and through the smoke I saw her spring to her feet and rush towards me. Escape was impossible, for behind m... .... I had hit her after all. My bullet went clean through her heart, but the spring had carried her for wards. When I scrambled to my feet I found that... ...e statue, and the same unconscious composure; and in her also breathed the spring odours of ineffable purity. Her features were chiselled with the cle... ...chieved an unpopularity which was remarkable. It turned out that he played football admirably, and except for his rather scornful indolence he might e... ...ports which demanded courage and self reliance. He seemed, indeed, to like football, but he played it with a brutal savagery which the other persons c... ...liver Haddo and Margaret. ‘Mr Arthur Burdon—Mrs Haddo. Mr Burdon is a col league of mine at St Luke’s; and he will cut out your appen dix in a short... ...ss more than an inch thick. In it a spherical mass, a little larger than a football, of a peculiar, livid colour. The surface was smooth, but rather c...

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...Edith’s hand put out protectingly. A little figure in a low arm-chair came springing next into the light, and looked upon him wonderingly , with its b... ...een upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more. There can be no doub... ...le; and his words seemed newly spoken, again and again. He had touched the spring that opened her whole life; and if she lost him for a short space, i... ...ways been estranged. She had crossed him every way and everywhere. She was leagued against him now. Her very beauty softened natures that were obdu- r... ...her what Edith was, and bade her follow her, since they had always been in league. She did not sink down at his feet; she did not shut out the sight o... ...ing and extending his influence, until the business and its owner were his football; and saw you toiling at your obscure desk every day; and was quite...