In baseball earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher

Usage examples of drawing.

But then Mason, Wilson, and John Adams, no less than Jefferson, were, as they all appreciated, drawing on long familiarity with the seminal works of the English and Scottish writers John Locke, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Henry St.

Before the archer could finish drawing, the door to the aftercastle flew open and a short, black-bearded man came stamping out.

He appeared to be drawing out his argument into a filibuster, to hold the platform until the aftersupper crowd came along.

Only once did Brant look back at the crouching monster, whose agelong vigil was now drawing to its close.

Drawing aside, Jessamy nodded to her daughter, who urged her pony through the opening, then gestured for Alyce and Marie to follow.

Amalekites, which now and then led to quarrels, and which one evening threatened serious consequences, when some drunken soldiers had annoyed the Amalekite women while they were drawing water.

Then I combine everything with my own knowledge of the Anasazi and make a series of drawings of the site as it probably looked when it was inhabited.

There were also many photographs and drawings of the cliff dwellings, as well as placards that explained the Anasazi story.

The sound was not just a ripple, but a palpability, drawing in, as if the Moot had become a huge maw, a wyrm anglerfish draw ing every particle in.

The delta of the Rio Colorado has always been tricky for to navigate, and they tell me that lately, since your Anglo settlers have been drawing irrigation water from its tributaries, it has gotten worse.

He struck me with amazement when he answered that she refused to marry him from fear of drawing upon herself the hatred of his relatives.

Machaon also knelt by Antiphones, drawing back the cloak still further.

There was a thud below him as the baffled cat fell back to earth, and then Tarzan of the Apes, drawing his dinner farther up to the safety of a higher limb, looked down with grinning face into the gleaming yellow eyes of the other wild beast that glared up at him from beneath, and with taunting insults flaunted the tender carcass of his kill in the face of him whom he had cheated of it.

Be that as it may, for days the man, the panther, and the great apes roamed their savage haunts side by side, making their kills together and sharing them with one another, and of all the fierce and savage band none was more terrible than the smooth-skinned, powerful beast that had been but a few short months before a familiar figure in many a London drawing room.

Entranced in wonder and pleasure, Argemone let her eyes wander over the drawing.