"Ball over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fashionable and delightful game, suitable for both ladies and gentlemen, is generally played on a lawn or grass-plat by two, three, or four players, with balls and racquet bats. The object of the game is to strike a ball over a net and keep it in play backwards and forwards within certain limits. The court or ground may be of any size consistent with the lawn, the base lines being marked out by chalk, or tapes slightly pinned to the turf, which should be frequently ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... time Gordon was rattled, and he sent the next ball over the heart of the plate. The batter nailed it for two bags, and two men ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... sha'n't lose either," said Gordon; "we are going to sweep the field next term, and we are going to drive the ball over the line somehow, and God save anyone who gets ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
... bringing with them bread-fruit, plantains, and one pig, all of which they exchanged for nails, &c. But in this traffic they would frequently keep our goods, and make no return, till at last I was obliged to fire a musket-ball over one man who had several times served us in this manner; after which they dealt more fairly; and soon after several of them came on board. At this time we were preparing to warp farther into the bay, and I was going in a boat, to look ...
— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 • James Cook
... when I want to," was the retort. "It's only a chump pitcher who keeps the ball over the pan all ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
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