 There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But...  New Outlook - Page 5691907Full view - About this book
 | James Hastings - Children's sermons - 1920 - 352 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up ! play up ! and play the game 1 " The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Bed with the wreck of a square that... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland - Readers - 1920 - 378 pages
...match to win— A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...captain's hand on his shoulder smote: "Play up! play up! and play the game!" 186 Red with the wreck of a square that broke: The gatling's jammed and the colonel... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1920 - 408 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — "Play up! play up! and play the game!" The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke;... | |
 | Courtenay Frederic William Dunn - Children - 1920 - 336 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...Captain's hand on his shoulder smote, ' Play up ! play up ! and play the game ! ' " The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that... | |
 | Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1922 - 310 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — ' Play up ! play up ! and play the game ! ' The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Great Britain - 1922 - 342 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light. An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...captain's hand on his shoulder smote, ' Play up ! play up ! and play the game ! ' The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that... | |
 | Henry William Gibson - Boys - 1922 - 310 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat. Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' "The sand of the desert is sodden red — Red with the wreck of a square that broke... | |
 | Medicine - 1907 - 1192 pages
...late, dearly beloved and deeply lamented, cotemporary, "the Poet of the Habitant," Dr. Drummond : — "But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote — Play up! Play up! and play the game." REPORT OF TETANUS.* By TWH YOUNG, MD, LRCS, LRCP. Edin., Peterborough. MR. PRESIDENT... | |
 | Warren Thomson Powell - Church entertainments - 1923 - 170 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — "Play up! play up! and play the game." The sand of the desert is sodden red — Red with the wreck of the square that... | |
 | Paul Everett Belting - High schools - 1923 - 412 pages
...the match to win; A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — "Play up ! play up ! and play the game !" The sand of the desert is sodden red — Red with the wreck of a square that... | |
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