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.

Pastinha preferred the ludic aspects of the game rather than the martial side, and was much respected by recognized Capoeira masters.

His tenure has seen the club go through an era of success and dominance both in England and in Europe, giving Ferguson a reputation as one of the most admired and respected managers in the history of the game.

Although the Nationals won the game 8 – 5, Robinson found the decision so difficult to make on a player he respected so much, he broke down crying during the post-game interviews.

He is considered as one of the most famous and respected composers in the video game community.

Her family and instructors were dismayed with her change in focus, as video game music was not well respected, and " they had paid tuition for an expensive music school and couldn't understand why would accept such a job ", but Shimomura accepted the job at Capcom anyway.

The rules of the game were improved shortly thereafter by the respected monk, Hermannus Contractus, from Reichenau, and in the school of Liège.

Heavy underdogs coming into the tournament, they stunned the world by beating a respected Portuguese team 3-2 in their opening game.

The game is among Infocom's most respected titles, although it was not a commercial success.

It is a semi-fictional chronicle of the lengthy 1938 " retirement game " of Go by the respected master Honinbo Shūsai, against the up-and-coming player Minoru Kitani ( although the latter's name is changed to Otaké in the book ).

Despite routine review outrage, it is one of the most bestselling and respected video game publications in America.

A respected figure in basketball circles since his early years — Barry was one of the two officials who worked the 1923 Illinois high school basketball championship game — he served on many significant NCAA committees in his later years, and was a primary force in establishing such national playoffs as the NCAA basketball tournament and the College World Series.

Ledley is respected for his reading of the game, coolness under pressure, timing, pace, passing, dominance in the air and his professionalism.

In 1884, in response to the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association having Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black man to play major league baseball, on their roster, Cap Anson of the Chicago White Stockings ( one of the most beloved and respected players at the time ) threatened to sit out an exhibition game with them if Walker played.

In the NBA, Howard developed a respected inside post-up game and a reputation as a veteran leader, according to Kiki Vandeweghe, the general manager of the Denver Nuggets, Howard's team in 2003.

Most fans could not see the game because of carriage restrictions, now even more noticeable because it involved nationally respected teams in a highly anticipated matchup.

Jennings, whose primary career was as a database programmer, became a respected critic of UO, as he posted detailed critiques of the game.

, the original Famitsū publication, is considered the most widely read and respected video game news magazine in Japan.

EP ’ s hosts travel the world bringing viewers behind the scenes of the global game business to meet the planet ’ s most respected videogame creators.

Ellery Hanley looks back at the time he spent in Australia and remembers that " I wanted to be respected by the Australians as well, because their game is so superior to ours.

He is widely considered one of the outstanding players of the game, and is hugely respected by his peers.

Already one of the most respected defenders in the English game, he had the rare achievement of representing the English national side before appearing in the top flight, in early 1988 when still playing in the Second Division for Middlesbrough.

When asked why the team chose to make Mega Man X into an RPG, producer Tatsuya Kitabayashi explained, " Mega Man X is respected as an action game, but also has a good story.

Boston fans and respected sportswriter Tim Murnane each believed that the Boston players, angry that they did not get a cut from the gate receipts for Game 2 and further alienated by O ' Brien's Game 6 start, bet on the Giants and threw the game to make their losses good.

It carries the prestige of being the original " Open " championship ( although the very first event was held only for British professionals ) and is respected for maintaining the tradition of links play that dates back to the very invention of the game in Scotland.