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Use in Literature

Cricket

Against bare legs a cricket bat is a highly dissuasive argument.–Samuel Hopkins Adams in The Unspeakable Perk.

Crickets chirped, grasshoppers leaped, ants worked busily at their subterranean houses, spiders spun shining webs from twig to twig, bees were coming for their bags of gold, and butterflies had just begun their holiday.–Louisa May Alcott in A Modern Cinderella.

The extent of the playground was marked off by two pair of ‘byes’ like those used in cricket, planted about thirty rods apart.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Scouts of the Valley.

I stopped abruptly, realizing that this was not cricket.–Marion Polk Angellotti in The Firefly Of France.

The old fellow was as lively as a cricket, and as busy as a bee.–T.S. Arthur in The Lights and Shadows of Real Life.

So I rowed along as merry as a cricket, and pretty soon tied up my boat, and struck off into the woods.–J.G. Austin in Outpost.

We got up a rattling good cricket club.–Robert Barr in In the Midst of Alarms.

The Gardens are noted for two kinds of cricket: boy cricket, which is real cricket with a bat, and girl cricket, which is with a racquet and the governess.–James M. Barrie in The Little White Bird.

Flails had been made by tying pieces of wood to cricket stumps.–K.M. Barrow in Three Years in Tristan da Cunha.

It was not cold, but there were no crickets at such a level in the mountains, nor any vegetation there except a brush here and there clinging between the rocks and finding a droughty rooting in their fissures.–Hilaire Belloc in On Something.

• Preface v
• Use in Literature 1
• Cricket 1
• Cricket – "Air" 8
• Cricket – "Ball" 9
• Cricket – "Boys" 9
• Cricket – "Football" 10
• Cricket – "Frogs" 10
• Cricket – "Full" 11
• Cricket – "Game" 11
• Cricket – "Go" 12
• Cricket – "Grass" 13
• Cricket – "Greatness" 13
• Cricket – "Ground" 14
• Cricket – "Hear" 14
• Cricket – "Little" 15
• Cricket – "Look" 16
• Cricket – "Match" 16
• Cricket – "Men" 17
• Cricket – "Played" 18
• Cricket – "School" 20
• Cricket – "Silence" 21
• Cricket – "Singing" 21
• Cricket – "Song" 22
• Cricket – "Sound" 23
• Cricket – "Sun" 23
• Cricketers 24
• Cricketers – "Best" 26
• Nonfiction Usage 28
• Lyrical Usage 28
• Script Usage 28
• Journalism Usage 28
• Governmental Usage 75
• Patent Usage 75
• Bibliographic Usage 76
• Encyclopedic Usage 215
• Lexicographic Usage 317
• Index 481