1 The lower of the three is Gilchrist, a fine scholar and athlete, plays in the Rugby team and the cricket team for the college, and got his Blue for the hurdles and the long jump.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 2 Side by side with his memory of the deeds of prowess of his uncle Mat Davin, the athlete, the young peasant worshipped the sorrowful legend of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 3 A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 4 They sat down, and gazed with great gravity at each other, each thinking in his heart that he had seldom seen a stronger or more athletic figure than was placed opposite to him.
5 Holmes had sprung to his feet, and I saw his dark, athletic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 6 Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 7 If he is an elderly man he is not this active cyclist who sprints away from that young lady's athletic pursuit.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 8 What happened with this: This young fellow had employed his afternoon at the athletic grounds, where he had been practising the jump.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 9 I am a good hand at every kind of athletic sport known among mankind.
10 He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man; beside whom my master seemed quite slender and youth-like.
11 There was the host himself, a tall, athletic young man, clad in evening dress, as also was the editor, a dyspeptic-looking gentleman named Maynard.
12 In the same way there are magazines about Egyptian coins, and Catholic saints, and flying machines, and athletic records, and I know nothing about any of them.
13 His masters, even when they had not attracted him, had seemed to him always intelligent and serious priests, athletic and high-spirited prefects.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 14 An athletic black belonging to some coast tribe, and educated by my poor predecessor, was the helmsman.
15 He was an athletic, gigantic bandit, with large eyes, thick lips, and a flat nose; his red hair fell in dishevelled masses like snakes around his shoulders.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare.