If the men had only worn bowlers and smoked cigars, how it would have taken me back to student days in Antwerp at Carnival time, not so jolly of course, but very different from anything at home.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
For so small a place they certainly put a wonderfully strong team into the field; on their own native "bog" they are fairly invincible, though we fancy on the hard-baked clay at Lord's their bowlers would lose a little of their cunning.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
At the same time the bowlers would get a good rest, and the left-handed artist, who had been acting as long-stop, might reasonably be expected to regain his cunning.
"Dr. Jolliffe's Boys"
Lewis Hough