Word: throating
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...gloved hands, all other players retire to a safe distance, and after asking permission of the referee, and saying his prayers, he kicks the ball. No shouting is allowed, because it scares nervous players (and all our boys are preternaturally nervous), and besides it irritates the throat and predisposes to the lung troubles so rife in this climate. Any player who accidentally strikes another shall be at once arrested, taken to the Municipal Court and fined one hundred dollars for aggravated assault. The "gentlemanliness" of the game shall be preserved, and the wearied players carried home in coaches...
...always on '85's side of the line These small alternate gains and losses lasted for about three or four minutes and then the '85 men seemed to act on the defensive as they had several inches to spare. Not so the freshmen. "Heave heave," came from Cochrane's throat every few seconds during the last minute and this constant tugging gained several inches. '85 lay quiet on the rope until the five minutes limit was reached, when they were declared...
...student's thirsty throat...
...more than the undergraduate, who when the torments of the class-room are over for the time, has field to his room for a quiet smoke or an hour's study, and is interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have in the bundle that he carries under his arm, and of which...
...with others on account of its exceedingly ugly shape. The top is flat and very wide so as to admit of quite a space wherein to return volleyed balls, and the curse at the top is very rightly done away with, as there was no use for it. The throat of the racket is also very wide and has the new under curve, which, leaving more space at that part of the racket, aids very materially in returning balls which are volleyed directly at a player. In fact, the manufacturers have prepared a racket suitable to all good players...