10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EIGHTSMAN»
Discover the use of
eightsman in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
eightsman and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Now an eightsman comes into the barge with two deep-breathing freshmen, and
nods us to follow him to the boat the three have just quitted. On a chair by the
door as we go out are several pads, consisting of a rubber cloth faced with wool.
The Youth, the Eightsman, and the Rugger Blue had dined at " The Quagger's "
and waxed merry — without much difficulty. When they left the dining-room, they
carried two bottles of No. 28 between them. The Youth was sentimental, the ...
Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, 1899
The Fresher fled with the mangled telescope, and the winded eightsman was
picked up and dusted down. In future years as one of God's Anointed he was to
overawe wild tribesmen on the N.W.F.P. and dispense justice in fluent Pushtu,
but at ...
Raising the Wind, 262. " Spes Sibi Quisque," 422. University Fiction, 408. Recent
Reflections, 79. Tennyson up to Date. — An Eightsman Uno Avulso non Deficit
Alter, 278. Rennes, 7. Loquitur, Eights No., 13. Unpunctual Leonids, The, 100.
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
... all Dark Blue supporters. After six successive wins at Cambridge, Third Trinity
were beaten this year by Trinity Hall in the Coxswainless Fours. As “ Third "
included three Old Blues and an Old Etonian eightsman, this came as a big
surprise.
There are breakfasts, teas, luncheons, and dinners — at the Mitre or in college
rooms — bridge parties in the evening and motor drives to Woodstock; while the
lucky eightsman is lionized to his heart's content. Then follow river picnics down ...
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The Leisure Hour Monthly Library
Many get no farther towards the final glory of an “ eightsman ” than the doubtful
pleasure of rowing in a college “ junior fours" race. Others of the more promising
have to be content with a place in the “Togger” or “Torpid” (so called in ...
Here we were taken out, two at a time, with a college eightsman as coxswain and
coach. Again we were taught a new game, for the English stroke is quite different
from what we knew at home. We floundered about in the river, obeying the ...
Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, 1905
First in Greats and an Eightsman; and Canon Rawnsley, are among the Balliol
men of my time who have won ecclesiastical honours. “Jacko” Rawnsley was
quite a feature of the place. I think he would be a feature in most places. We won
the ...
The novice of October may become an eightsman of his college in May, and a "
blue " the following March. There are honors constantly to be won — the
opportunity of always doing something for one's college. Now, why is it not
possible to ...
