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.

The game won two Interactive Achievement Awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences in 2002 for " Art Direction " and " Character or Story Development ", and was nominated for awards of " Game of the Year ", " Game Design ", " Level Design " and " Sound Design ".

The BRSC runs at least one coach to every away game and proceeds from raffles held on these trips are donated to nominated local charities.

In 2011, Baba Yetu, a song from Civilization IV, won the 53rd annual music awards ' Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists, the first video game music to be nominated for ( or to win ) a Grammy.

StarCraft II has also been nominated to receive a Vaporware Award in the past, though in February 2010 the closed beta of the game was released for select people to test on the newly revamped Battle. net.

Two years later the team drew 1 – 1 in a game against the 1912 Swedish Olympic team, and the newspapers in Stockholm nominated IFK Göteborg as " the best Swedish football club ever ".

Having been nominated and rejected in 2000, when the game suffered a tarnished reputation due to match fixing scadals, the captaincy was passed to Dravid, his former deputy.

Another well-known video game Western protagonist is John Marston, who was nominated in Spike's Video Game Awards 2010.

The game was nominated for " Console Game of the Year ," " Innovation in Console Gaming ," and " Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction.

The game was nominated for Best Music, Best Action Adventure Game, and Game of the Year on GameCube.

It has been nominated for several awards, winning some of them ; it won best Game Boy Advance platform game from both IGN and its readers, the former calling the new levels " phenomenal ".

GameSpot nominated it for best platform game of the year, while its readers awarded it best Game Boy Advance game of the year.

Blockbuster nominated it for best Nintendo 64 game in its " Blockbuster Awards ".

His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he has since had sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nominated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World-which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for ' best sound in a video game '.

The game won the " Character or Story Development " award at the 2001 Interactive Achievement Awards, and was also nominated for " Game of the Year ," " Game Play Engineering ," " PC Game of the Year ," and " PC Role-Playing.

Nintendo Power nominated it for " best puzzle game " and " best Pokémon game ".

Rennie has done a lot of work on computer games and was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA for his script on the Rogue Trooper game.

The game was nominated by GameSpot for several Best of 2005 awards, including Best Multiplayer Game, Best Driving Game, and Best DS Game, winning the last one.

Such games are now included in statistical records, counting, for example, as a game played by the teams and nominated players.

The goalkeeper to begin with is nominated by vote, then the game begins.

One player is nominated as goalkeeper and penalties are taken to decide on who starts in goal for the game.

At GameSpot's " Best and Worst of 2005 " awards, the game was nominated for Best Story, Best GameCube Game, Most Outrageous Game, Most Gratuitous Use of F ------ Swearing, and won Best New Character ( Harman Smith ) and Most Innovative Game.