The scouts were hot and tired; the bowlers were changed and
bowled till their arms ached; but Dumkins and Podder remained unconquered.
I have saved more than the bowl will cost thrice over.
'It is good to give to the poor.' She took the bowl and returned it full of hot rice.
"I then gave him some more; three times did I fill the bowl for him, and three times did he drain it without thought or heed; then, when I saw that the wine had got into his head, I said to him as plausibly as I could: 'Cyclops, you ask my name and I will tell it you; give me, therefore, the present you promised me; my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends have always called me.'
They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones {80} all kept apart from one another; as for his dairy, all the vessels, bowls, and milk pails into which he milked, were swimming with whey.
"Nana, good dog," he said, patting her, "I have put a little milk into your
bowl, Nana."
In the meantime the legless man, erect upon his feet, crowned Gringoire with his heavy iron
bowl, and the blind man glared in his face with flaming eyes!
Johnson, the young bowler, is getting wild, and
bowls a ball almost wide to the off; the batter steps out and cuts it beautifully to where cover-point is standing very deep--in fact almost off the ground.
The carriage had whirled us under I know not how many triumphal arches in process of construction, and past the tents and flag-poles of a juicy-looking cricket-field, on which Raffles undertook to
bowl up to his reputation.
Forthwith, however, as soon as the order was given, there was an intense red glow out of the
bowl of the pipe, and a whiff of smoke came from Mother Rigby's lips.
Most of his poems, other than certain political satire, which drew on him the Emperor's wrath, are full of subtle sadness and fragrant regret, reminding one of pot-pourri in some deep blue porcelain
bowl.
It was not, however, with his teaser that he
bowled me that day.