Presently more boys and bigger came out, and boys from other houses on their way to calling-over, and more
balls were sent for.
"Next week, and a splendid
ball. One of those
balls where one always enjoys oneself."
At two o'clock the tennis
balls began, according to Grimaud's directions, to take the direction of the moat, much to the joy of La Ramee, who marked fifteen whenever the duke sent a
ball into the moat; and very soon
balls were wanting, so many had gone over.
When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden
balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods.
"Ay, ay, Jim, 'tis `the Birtwick
balls'," said John, "she'll be as good as Black Beauty by and by; kindness is all the physic she wants, poor thing!" Master noticed the change, too, and one day when he got out of the carriage and came to speak to us, as he often did, he stroked her beautiful neck.
In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this battery when two
balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon driver's leg.
Lady Janet has issued invitations for one of her grand
balls at Mablethorpe House; and sh e has caused the report to be circulated everywhere that the object of the festival is 'to celebrate the marriage of Mr.
The meat is made into
balls about the size of billiard
balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal
balls.
'I should like to see you very much; but I shall have many opportunities of seeing you equally charming, on the occasion of some of the numberless
balls and parties that are to be, and I cannot disappoint my friends by postponing my return so long.'
Now she had a golden
ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.
Julius Beaufort, on the night of her annual
ball, never failed to appear at the Opera; indeed, she always gave her
ball on an Opera night in order to emphasise her complete superiority to household cares, and her possession of a staff of servants competent to organise every detail of the entertainment in her absence.
There were no spectators of our contest except now and again some loiterer in the Gardens who little thought what was the stake for which we played, but cannot we conceive Barbara standing at the ropes and agitatedly cutting down the daisies every time David missed the
ball? I tell you, this was the historic match of the Gardens.