McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.

His present maximum altitude, up against the overcast, gave him the opportunity to exploit his advantages.

Hamilton, poorest of the seven, gave up a brilliant law practice to enter Washington's Cabinet.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Esther jumped up, ran to him and gave him a little hug.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Finally, after years, I gave up.

The day Alfred left his home and Fleischmanns he gave up the convictions of a lifetime.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

So Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

gave up verse for prose, 1868 - 70 ; ;

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

Each time he got the same answer and in the end he gave up.

Rookie southpaw George Stepanovich relieved Hyde at the start of the ninth and gave up the A's fifth tally on a walk to second baseman Dick Howser, a wild pitch, and Frank Cipriani's single under Shortstop Jerry Adair's glove into center.

Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.

Whee the People: Lovely Thrush Annamorena gave up a promising show biz career to apply glamor touches to her hubby, Ray Lenobel's fur firm here.

Everywhere he went in town, people sidled up, gave him the guttural bit or broke into a frightening Tarzan yodel.

He planned at one time to enter the legal profession, but gave up the plan in favor of the entertainment field.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing ''.

`` If it gave me pleasure to say hard things '', he wrote, `` I would shut up forever ''.

The tour was not a success and the only positive outcome was the fact of the tour having taken place, ten years after the previous one, as it " gave Australian cricket a much needed fillip ".

He played rugby throughout his teens, but gave up the game in 1961 as it interfered with his cricket career.

During the 19th century the influx of people from the surrounding counties looking for work in the local ironworks and coal mines gave cricket a boost and in June 1879 " a meeting was held at the Institute to form a cricket club in the town ".

This ground was shared by cricket and rugby teams – sports which Kilmarnock had played previously – and the connection with rugby gave the ground its name.

Trueman had made friends with Frank Worrell and other West Indian players when he met them in English league cricket and objected strongly to Hutton's policy, claiming that he was not alone in this and especially as Hutton gave no reason for it.

Ockham has a small church, All Saints ; a memorial to those who gave their lives in the Great War and World War II ; a cricket club ; and the pub The Black Swan ( near Ockham Common ).

In 2005 the ECB concluded a commercial arrangement with BSkyB which gave Sky Sports the exclusive television rights for live Test cricket in England and Wales for four years ( the 2006 to 2009 seasons ).

One-day cricket also gave NZ a chance to compete more regularly than Test cricket with the better sides in world cricket.

However, his playmanship gave him a chance to make his first-class cricket debut for Bengal in 1989, the same year that his brother was dropped from the team.

The acquisition of New Zealand speedster Thomas Pritchard gave Hollies the necessary support and by 1948 they had one of the strongest attacks in county cricket.

He gave lectures and played some cricket while in India.

During the season of his return to official cricket, Lillee collected 35 Test wickets in six matches against the West Indies and England, and gave Australia's bowling attack stability while the selectors experimented with the team.

In 2009, Shaun Tait gave up first-class cricket indefinitely so he can focus on the shorter forms of the game.

This ground was shared by cricket and rugby teams-sports which Kilmarnock had played previously-and the connection with rugby gave the ground its name.

Roly Jenkins, with 183 wickets in 1949, gave them briefly the best attack in county cricket, but they soon declined again and their form in the 1950s was indifferent at best.

He was the first of only two men to captain the country at both rugby and cricket but is also remembered as the England cricket captain whose side lost the Test match which gave rise to the Ashes, at home against the Australians in 1882.

The cricket writer Colin Bateman gave the following description of Edrich: " Unflinching, unselfish, and often unsmiling while going about his business in the middle, he was a fiercely formidable opener who knew his limitations and worked wonderfully within them ".

However, he unexpectedly completely gave up cricket soon after that, to the dismay of his country and county.

However, his moment of glory also gave rise to controversy, when one pressman found out that Close was " confined to barracks " for disciplinary reasons at the time his call-up was announced: he had apparently absented himself from an army cricket match.