Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

Tom was not willing to revise the play according to the plan the man suggested.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

That was one of the high spots of the play.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The play for Saturday night was to be a benefit performance of The Octoroon.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Kieffer, the only junior in the group, was commended for his ability to hit in the clutch, as well as his all-round excellent play.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

In the play, Nora left Torvald with head held high, though facing an uncertain future given the limitations women faced in the society of the time.

In Great Britain, the only way in which the play was initially allowed to be given in London was in an adapted form made by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman and called Breaking a Butterfly.

The benefit of the doubt is always given to the pitcher in determining which bases would have been reached by errorless play.

No MVP award is given for Division Series play.

When a game goes to overtime, each team is given one possession from its opponent's twenty-five yard line with no game clock, despite the one timeout per period and use of play clock.

In the CFL, if the game is tied at the end of regulation play, then each team is given an equal number of chances to break the tie.

Cornets and trumpets made in a given key ( usually the key of B ) play at the same pitch, and the technique for playing the instruments is nearly identical.

Nazi themes of death, transcendence, and commemoration were given full play to encourage the fight.

Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.

In addition, if a bass player is given a solo, they may play a walking bass line with a note on every beat or play a pentatonic scale-influenced bassline.

The player may then be given a chance to play again, depending on the settings of the particular machine ( the limit is usually 3-5 songs per game ).

They were given consistent radio support by Sydney-based noncommercial rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ), one of the first rock stations outside America to play their recordings.

The design of EverQuest, like other Massively Multiplayer Online Games, makes it highly amenable to cooperative play, with each player having a specific role within a given group.

She was approached by James Cameron to play the part of " Rose Dawson Calvert " for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic with Kate Winslet to play her younger self, but she turned down the role and the part of Rose was given to Gloria Stuart.

Will states that some observers might feel that these unique aspects of Fenway give the Red Sox an advantage over their opponents, given that the Red Sox hitters play 81 games at the home stadium while each opponent plays no more than nine games as visiting teams but Will does not share this view.

The centre scrimmager was later renamed the " snap ", and in intercollegiate play one side was given the right to put foot to ball first.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

These harps can only play in a single key during any given performance, though any string on a harp can be tuned to a corresponding sharp or flat before a performance and then be returned to its regular tension ( key ) afterwards with little effort.

When a given task is appropriate for a team, task design can play a key role in team effectiveness ( Sundstrom, et al., 2000 ).

Between earning money from these adventures, Brown taught himself to play a harmonica given to him by his father.

On 18 September 2006, " Runaway " was given its first play by UK radio stations.