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Use in Literature

Cricketers

Both of the young cricketers had been battered and bruised, though it was nothing, they gleefully averred, to what they had meted out.–Samuel Hopkins Adams in The Unspeakable Perk.

He was conscious of brown hands clutching at the cricketer, to drag him away.–Samuel Hopkins Adams in The Unspeakable Perk.

When he died he was spoken of as an amateur, and praised as a cricketer of some merit.–Arthur Christopher Benson in Escape and Other Essays.

Famous cricketers and famous actors are applauded by those they entertain or amuse.–Henry Edward Bird in Chess History and Reminiscences.

Then, at college, he became illustrious among rowers and cricketers, renowned as a pistol shot, dreaded as a singlestick player.–Wilkie Collins in Basil.

In answer to my questions it claimed to be the spirit of one whom I will call Dodd, who was a famous cricketer, and with whom I had some serious conversation in Cairo before he went up the Nile, where he met his death in the Dongolese Expedition.–Arthur Conan Doyle in The New Revelation.

He wants Hughie to be a cricketer and horseman and everything that's robust.–George Gissing in The Whirlpool.

He was a fair cricketer, though rather too fat for that exercise, and a capital swimmer, for which his fat was an advantage.–Philip Gilbert Hamerton in Philip Gilbert Hamerton (An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894).

My youngest brother would, I think, have made a great name for himself as a cricketer, had not the fairies endowed him at his birth with a fatal facility for doing everything easily.–Lord Frederic Hamilton in The Days Before Yesterday.

He was followed by nearly all the cricketers, who now burst upon the scene in a body, only to desert it for the chase.–E.W. Hornung in The Amateur Cracksman.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Cricketers 1
• Cricketers – "Best" 3
• Nonfiction Usage 5
• Journalism Usage 5
• Bibliographic Usage 8
• Encyclopedic Usage 22
• Lexicographic Usage 48
• Index 141