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.

Develop wildlife openings, food patches, and game ways in dense vegetation by clearing or controlled burning on 400,000 acres.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

These requirements are meant to keep the game fair ( preventing switching the dice or making a " controlled shot ").

Since the late 1990s, analog sticks ( or thumbsticks, due to their being controlled by one's thumbs ) have become standard on video game consoles and have the ability to indicate the stick's displacement from its neutral position.

The book is divided into three parts reflecting this: the first on chess ( a game purely of abstract strategy ), the second on dice ( with outcomes controlled strictly by chance ), and the last on tables ( combining elements of both ).

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He stated that he would like all shooting in the game to be controlled with the D-pad instead of the Touch Screen.

The goal of the game is to either finish a race ahead of other racers, who are controlled by the computer and other players, or complete a circuit in the fastest time.

The Beyonders sought to observe the process of evolution under relatively controlled conditions and had the Nuwali set up a number of game preserves on several planets.

Unlike Scrabble, which is controlled by competitors Hasbro ( in the U. S .) and Mattel ( in Europe ), Upwords is at this time solely under the worldwide licensing control of Hasbro, making it the only such worldwide word game property that can be Internet-marketed and Internet-offered with complete licensing control.

Hybrids do survive on game ranches where both species are kept and where predators are controlled by man.

During a game, players must establish settlements to gain resources, defend against other players, and train units to explore the map and attack computer controlled foes.

The game also introduces creeps, computer controlled units that are hostile to all players.

Nintendo, and all the manufacturers who followed, controlled game distribution by implementing licensing restrictions and a security lockout system.

Later, the channel attempted a Gong Show remake called Extreme Gong ( hosted by George Gray, in which the viewers could phone in their votes as to whether to " gong " acts off the air ) and Throut And Neck ( hosted by Rebecca Grant ) ( where viewers controlled video game characters with their phones ).

The ancient Egyptians played a game called Senet, which belonged to the same family of " race games " as modern tables games, with moves controlled by the roll of dice.

Luigi first appeared in the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. as the character controlled by the second player, and retained this role in Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and other titles.

In 2004, two sequels were released for the game, the Game Boy Advance title WarioWare: Twisted !, which due to a tilt sensor on the cartridge allows microgames to be controlled by tilting the handheld left and right, and the Nintendo DS release WarioWare: Touched !, incorporating both the DS's touch screen and microphone in the gameplay.

Super Mario 64 was the first game to have a " free " camera that could be controlled independently of the character.

OFP's gameplay is largely team oriented and the player spends much of the game with a squad of up to 11 AI controlled members, either as a member of the squad or as its leader.

In the previous games, the player controlled a character who walked and jumped and climbed across various levels while avoiding obstacles, whereas this game is more of a fixed shooter.

Mario Party 4 is based on an interactive board game played by four characters from the Mario series, which are controlled either by the player or the game's Artificial Intelligence ( AI ).