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Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact
that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within
the Spirit of the Game.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Laws of Cricket
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1a \'a\ n, pl a's or as \'az\ often cap, often attrib (bef. 12c) 1
a : the 1st letter of the English alphabet b : a representation
of this letter c : a speech counterpart of orthographic a 2 : the
6th tone of a C-major scale 3 : a graphic device for reproducing
the letter a 4 : one designated a esp. as the 1st in order or
class 5 a : a grade rating a student's work as superior in
quality b : one graded or rated with an A 6 : something shaped
like the letter A
- Unattributed Author,
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition)
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Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under
direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance
with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Official Rules of Baseball, Rule 1.01
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The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a
dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a
shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all
the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass
of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.
Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Source: Molly Make-Believe [1910] (ch. 1)
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Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost
every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on
the 24th of December, 1809.
Author: John S.C. (Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Source: Kit Carson, the Pioneer of the West [1874] (ch. I), (also titled Christopher Carson, familiarly know
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According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill
as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing.
Author: Lee K. Abbott
Source: The Talk Talked Between Worms [1996], a short story
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At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering
my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived
coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow,
wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.
Author: Edmond About
Source: The King of the Mountains [1857] (ch. 1)
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No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was
the most approachable politician in the country.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Source: A Man of the People [1966]
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Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even
beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Source: Things Fall Apart [1958]
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of
the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded
yellow sun.
Author: Douglas Adams
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] (prologue)
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For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot
Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: Democracy [1880]
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The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting
in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down
the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of
chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with
scarlet oaks and yellow maples.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: Esther [1884] (ch. 1)
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The primroses were over.
Author: Richard Adams
Source: Watership Down [1972]
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It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.
Author: David A. Adler
Source: Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster Movie [1984] (ch. 1)
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in
the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself
as a child.
Author: James Agee
Source: A Death in the Family [1957]
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Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was
going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope
with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining
room the day before.
Author: M. Ageyev (a pseudonym--real name unknown)
Source: Novel with Cocaine
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One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a
citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer
in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom,
at prayer.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Source: Old St. Paul's [1841]
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On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud
discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House,
then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of
the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of
buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was
immediately answered from every point along the river where a
bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Source: The Tower of London [1840]
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In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant
King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of
April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the
loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the
appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the
north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene
before him.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Source: Windsor Castle [1843]
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"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man
who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Source: Little Men [1871]
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"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo,
lying on the rug.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Source: Little Women [1868]
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To stretch his legs between consultations, Maclean escorted his
last patient to Baker Street station.
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Source: Life in the West [1980]
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Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and
strange in their instinct for growth.
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Source: The Long Afternoon of Earth [1962]
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's
dream.
Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Source: Miss Bishop [1933]
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It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in
upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea,--a thick material
substance against which one seemed to push when moving about.
Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Source: A White Bird Flying [1931]
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