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.

Danielle Bunten Berry planned to start work on the game after completing M. U. L. E.

Well in advance of the particular game, a number of different kinds of forward pass plays will have been planned out and practiced by the team.

A game called Quake Arena DS is planned for the Nintendo DS.

The Saints originally planned to wear white jerseys at home for the 2006 season, but during the season, the players voted to wear the black jerseys at home after the second game.

In the United States, the console was planned to debut at $ 599 USD and included two joystick controllers and a game, either Baseball Stars Professional or NAM-1975.

The Philips Videopac + G7400 was a video game console released in limited quantities in 1983, and only in Europe ; an American release as the Odyssey³ Command Center was planned but never occurred.

A third game, Ringworld: Within ARM's Reach, was also planned, but never completed.

A second game that was planned, Prey, never took off, and the name and parts of the original design were recycled for the more recent game by Human Head Studios.

Several planned elements were cut from the game.

A fourth game, titled Shadowrun: Assassin, was planned to be released in 1998 by FASA Interactive for the PC, but was cancelled.

Of the three planned volumes of the Guide, only the first was ever published ( in 1985 ), leaving the game in an uncomfortable, half-overhauled state.

An action / adventure Space Quest game was planned for the Xbox, but was canceled.

The game was played on January 12, 1975 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, the last pro game at that venue ( the game was originally planned to be held at the Louisiana Superdome, but that stadium was not completed yet ).

Problems with cheating led to the removal of the leagues, but their re-introduction is planned in a series of updates that have provided the game with more customization.

With this acquisition, Ritual's focus on traditional action-oriented games was changed to casual games, essentially " stalling " Ritual's latest game series, SiN Episodes, after releasing only one episode out of a planned nine.

* A Commander Keen game for the Nintendo Entertainment System was planned.

Red Storm Entertainment ( founded by author Tom Clancy ) had originally planned to do a special operations game featuring first-person action, and a team of operators rescuing hostages and taking out terrorists.

Ender's Game: Battle Room was a planned digitally distributed video game for all viable downloadable platforms.

Shortly after this point, as the end of the game neared, fans were actually bold enough to climb over the wall, draping their legs over the side in preparation for the moment when they planned to rush onto the field.

By identifying each square with reference to the player on move, descriptive notation better reflects the symmetry of the game's starting position (" both players opened with P-K4 and planned to play B-KN2 as soon as possible "), and because the pieces captured are named, it is easy to skim over a game record and see which ones have been taken at any particular point.

Black Isle Studios had planned a third series to be set in the Dalelands and be a PC exclusive hack and slash game with pausable real-time gameplay.