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 a player breaks the rules of a game deliberately, this is cheating.

It ’ s much easier to succeed with a team of quality players that you select deliberately rather than try to win a game with those who randomly show up to play.

There were reports that she misplaced it at parties, deliberately and frequently, and then make a children's game out of " finding the Hope ", and times when she hid the diamond somewhere on her estate during the " lavish parties she threw and invite guests to find it.

" Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the term " situation " as " a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events.

The first edition of Internationale Situationniste defines the constructed situation as " a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events.

In a qualification game for the 1994 Caribbean Cup, Barbados deliberately scored a late own goal in a successful attempt to advance to the finals stage by forcing golden-goal extra time against Grenada, as an unusual tournament rule stated that golden goals counted as double.

Many Heat fans felt that Johnson, knowing the Knicks had already won Game 4, deliberately provoked Mourning with only a second left on the clock so that he would be suspended for the series-deciding game, in an attempt to not only give the Knicks extra leverage, but to avenge the suspensions from the previous year.

* In the RPG game Baldur's Gate, the character Minsc, goes into a berserk rage either deliberately, as a special power ( to increase speed and strength ) or when seriously wounded, during which time he will attack members of his own party.

Querelle deliberately loses the game, allowing himself to be sodomized by Nono.

Eastern teams and critics felt the quality of the western game was inferior to theirs, and when Queen's defeated the Regina Rugby Club 54 – 0 in the 1923 final, the critics felt they deliberately ran up the score to prove that point.

Stirrups on saddles used by people who use horses for hunting game in the forest are sometimes made of blaze orange for visibility to other hunters, and, because much big game hunting in the American West takes place late in the year when it is very cold, some " winter boot " designs are deliberately made extra large with an especially smooth bottom so that a person can wear heavy winter boots with a raised tread without as much risk of getting them caught up in the stirrup.

His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a " psychological " approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents.

In addition, Neilson also took advantage of fans throwing objects onto the ice to deliberately cause stoppages of play late in a game.

As well as giving the game an unusual, strong Oriental feel, this storyline is interesting in that the designers deliberately tried to give the story a strong influence over the game itself.

They kept promoting us that way and I kept deliberately fighting it, to the extent that it became a game.

Once BAFTA judging had completed, the BBC re-launched the game in two distinct versions to showcase new artwork for scenes and objects deliberately omitted from the first release.

Gas deliberately installs a faulty bio-port and the game pod is damaged.

When Jim Bunning was pitching his perfect game in 1964, he deliberately violated this superstition, talking to his teammates about the perfect game's progress in order to dispel the tension in the dugout.

* Richard Garfield deliberately created the game King of Tokyo because he wanted to create a game using the dice mechanics of Yahtzee ; the " theme " of the game came later.

Use of the keyboard and buttons in the game is deliberately low ; to add to the sense of realism, the ( usually ) mouse-controlled hand can perform every function in the game.

This rule providing for a blackout of televised baseball 30 minutes before the start of a major or minor league game in any area comes from the game's top rulers.

The game was televised on ESPN's Monday Night Football and marked a record 42nd win for the Cowboys on MNF.

* 1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States ' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

* 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

The game was televised in the United States by CBS, with Ray Scott handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Pat Summerall and Jack Kemp in the broadcast booth.

The game was televised in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer Ray Scott and color commentators Pat Summerall and Bart Starr.

CBS televised the game in the United States with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall ( calling his first Super Bowl in that role ) and color commentator Tom Brookshier.

The game was televised in the United States by NBC with play-by-play announcer Curt Gowdy and color commentator Don Meredith.

The game was televised in the United States by NBC, with Curt Gowdy handling play-by-play and color commentators Merlin Olsen and John Brodie.

CBS televised the game in the United States with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator Tom Brookshier.

The game was televised in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden ( the latter making his Super Bowl debut as a broadcaster ).

The game was televised in the United States by NBC, with Dick Enberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentator Merlin Olsen in the broadcast booth.

This was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, joining the annual broadcasting rotation of the game with CBS and NBC.

As a result of the 1982 television contract signed by the NFL with the three networks, this game was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, as they earned their first turn at the Super Bowl, with a new alternation process started for the 1983 game.

The halftime show was later shown on tape delay after the game ( at around 10: 40 EST and 9: 40 CST ), although most ABC affiliates ran the first episode of Davis Rules following the Super Bowl, and may have televised the remaining parts  of the halftime show later.

The game was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by the Fox network.

ABC televised the game in the United States with play-by-play announcer Al Michaels and color commentator Boomer Esiason.

During the 2001 regular season, the Patriots hosted the Rams in a nationally televised ESPN Sunday night game on November 18.

The game, played on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at Canton ’ s Pro Football Hall of Fame Field at Fawcett Stadium, was nationally televised on NBC.

In Gretzky's first appearance in Edmonton after the trade — a game that was nationally televised in Canada — he received a four-minute standing ovation.

The game routinely sells out ( up to 11, 000 seats, depending upon the venue and seating arrangement ) and has been televised by ABC, ESPN2, and HDNet Each year, alumni from both schools gather at more than 50 locations around the United States for telecast parties, and a commemorative DVD ( including historic clips known as " Monon Memories ") is produced each year.

* January 26 – Immaculata University defeats the University of Maryland 80-48 in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States.

The game was televised nationally in the United States on the NBC television network.