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Usage examples of sporting.

With Echo every sporting character was better known than his college tutor, and not a few kept an eye upon the boy, with hopes, no doubt, of hereafter benefiting by his inexperience, when, having got the whip-hand of his juvenile restrictions, he starts forth to the world a man of fashion and consequence, with an unencumbered property of fifteen thousand per annum, besides expectancies.

An artsy sax player sporting a little silver goatee squeezed his eyes shut in ecstasy, leaning into his spotlight serenade.

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

Wearing a silver wig but topless and muscular and sporting a Vandyke beard so bright Bonny sees purple-afterimage trails when he shakes his head.

This one was sporting a soft, brimless cap of bright red and blue squares, worn at a rakish angle.

The proprietor of the borough, a good humoured sporting extravagant, has been compelled to yield his influence in St.

It was, Prew often thought, as if The Warden had applied to his whole life the principle which applied to all other games of sport - that laying down of certain arbitrary rules to make success that much harder for the player to attain, like clipping in football or travelling in basketball, or in the same way, he had read someplace, that sporting fishermen would use the light six-nine tackle in fishing for sailfish instead of the heavy tackle that makes it easy for the novice, thereby imposing upon themselves voluntarily the harder conditions that made the reward 3J4 worth more to them.

Further away, two of them faced a flickering telescreen, watching some faraway sporting competition.

And terrorless as this serenest night: Here could I hope, like some inquiring child Sporting on graves, that death did hide from human sight Sweet secrets, or beside its breathless sleep That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep.

There lay his trombone, gleaming like a horn of gold, still sporting that wisp of whisker at the nethermost curve of its slide.

A black woman sporting an over-funded afro was administering to some of the victims of the quake.

Henry, the old rooster, was now sporting a bandanna around his neck and from the shape of the stick the little boy held in his hand, Althea speculated that the old bird had just robbed a train or busted into a bank.

Henderson showed him the galley, a drab utilitarian place sporting little more than a mahogany bartree and standard-issue chairbeasts.

The British already had their agents in the bases who, amongst other things, could observe the sporting activities of the flotillas, and from that the enemy could deduce which boats were still at base and which at the front.

One or two pleasant pieces of china and a vast amount of worthless material, an ancient boneshaker and a miscellaneous collection of swords and early sporting guns were heaped upon one another with the profusion of a second-hand shop.