Shots from just off the green

Usage examples of chips.

It was like that for Chips as the autumn term progressed and the days shortened till it was actually dark enough to light the gas before call-over.

But when Chips had a cold or when east winds roared over the fenlands, Merivale would sometimes take Mrs.

And as Chips sat by his fire with autumn gales rattling the windows, the waves of humor and sadness swept over him very often until tears fell, so that when Mrs.

For Chips, in any social or academic sense, was just as respectable, but no more brilliant, than Brookfield itself.

They then met the Head and were shown over the School, and Chips saw them off at the railway station in the evening.

War, a private stationed at a big military camp near Brookfield called on Chips and said he had been one of that first visiting team.

On rather rare occasions she urged severity where Chips was inclined to be forgiving.

For with the new century there settled upon Chips a mellowness that gathered all his developing mannerisms and his oft-repeated jokes into a single harmony.

And it was Grayson Senior, not Junior, with whom Chips was destined later to condole.

And once Chips had got into trouble because of some joke he had made about the name and ancestry of a boy named Isaacstein.

The amazing result was a spontaneous outburst of sympathy and partisanship such as Chips, in his wildest dreams, had never envisaged.

Recognizing in Chips a Brookfield institution, he courteously and wisely accepted the situation.

July 1913, Chips received his farewell presentations and made a speech.

In September, when term began, Chips returned and took up residence at Mrs.

The guns began almost instantly, and, as there was plenty of shrapnel falling about outside, it seemed to Chips that they might just as well stay where they were, on the ground floor of School House.