It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

To me it was a game, to her it was the deadly seriousness of life.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

`` Bull tailin' '' was a game once pop'lar with the Mexican cowboys of Texas.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

If both extra periods are played without a scored goal, a penalty shootout will settle the game.

In the event of a draw, the replay is played at the ground of the team who originally played away from home, with a penalty shootout deciding the winner if the replay game also ends in a tie.

Should these not decide the game either, the winning team is determined in a penalty shootout ( best-of-5 rounds ; if still tied, extra rounds afterwards until won by one team ).

For their conference semi-finals, the Wiz beat the Dallas Burn in three games, winning the final game in a shootout.

Highlights that season included back-to-back victories against the 1981 Super Bowl teams San Francisco ( 41 – 37 ) and Cincinnati ( 50 – 34 ) in which Fouts threw for over 400 yards in each game to lead the Chargers to shootout victories.

Instead of the predicted shootout between Dan Marino and Joe Montana, the game was mostly one-sided.

The game went to a shootout with a 1 – 1 tie after overtime, but Gretzky was controversially not selected by coach Marc Crawford as one of the five shooters.

" If there are no goals after both periods of extra time, a penalty shootout decides the game.

There is no shootout during the NHL playoff games, as multiple 20-minute OT periods of five-on-five hockey are played until one of the teams scores, which wins them the game ( this has created extremely long contests such as the " Easter Epic ").

The game ends if a goal is scored ; however, if no goals are scored, a penalty shootout will determine the winner.

After losing the final game of the 2010-11 regular season at home to the Red Wings, the Blackhawks needed the Dallas Stars to either lose to the Minnesota Wild later that evening or at least have the game go into a shootout to qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The game was tense and finished 1 – 1 before going to a penalty shootout, where Bologna won 4 – 3.

Brazil became the first nation to win four World Cup titles when they beat Italy 3 – 2 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 0 – 0 after extra-time, the first World Cup final to be decided on penalties.

The game was decided by a penalty shootout, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13 – 12.

The game ended in a tie, and advanced to the penalty shootout phase.

In the second leg, at Morumbi stadium, in São Paulo, the game ended 0 – 0 and Boca won the competition in the penalty shootout.

The 2005 Grey Cup was the second overtime game in Grey Cup history, and the first one using the league's shootout overtime format ( introduced in 2000 ).

The following game, Kariya participated in his first NHL shootout ( the tie-breaker was newly implemented by the league for the 2005 – 06 season ) after the Predators remained tied with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 2 – 2 following overtime.

He was stopped in the shootout, however, by Mike Smith as the Stars won the game 5 – 4.

The Blues went on to lose the game 2 – 1 in a shootout.

In the gold medal game, Kariya scored the first goal as Canada went on to lose 3 – 2 in a shootout to Sweden.

The CyberRays triumphed over the Atlanta Beat, in 4-2 shootout after double overtime of a 3-3 game.

The Netherlands reached the semi-finals and played against Italy in a thrilling game that ended up being decided with a penalty shootout.