cricket-field

Shortly after leaving school, he accompanied a party of friends to a cricket-field, in his natural and appropriate character of spectator only.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

The land is everywhere gently undulating, and, while anything like a hill is unknown, it has been difficult to find a piece of ground sufficiently level for a cricket-field.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

He could tell you of the vanished estate of Sir Peter Bone, long since cut up for building, and how that magnate ruled the country-side when it was country-side, of shooting and hunting, and of caches along the high road, of how “where the gas-works is” was a cricket-field, and of the coming of the Crystal Palace.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Military operations have always attracted the picture-maker at all times, and there are plentiful pictures of battles from every age, from the little cricket-field battle of the Middle Ages to the hundred mile fights of the last Great War, but our interest here is not with battles but with the general facies of social life.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

I had seen him risk his limbs blindly at a fox-hunt and in a cricket-field; and soon afterwards I saw him risk his life, just as blindly, in the sea at Brighton.

The Woman in White 2003

Notwithstanding the motley assemblage which a match always attracts, so unobjectionable are the associations of the cricket-field that clergymen do not feel it unbecoming to participate in the diversion, either as players, umpires or spectators.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Doubtless there is little resemblance, but all the same there is a certain gory tradition hanging about the old walls and arches of those great arenas which is utterly lacking in the cricket-field, tawdry plazas of some of the Spanish towns.

The Automobilist Abroad

"Well hit!" applauded Parfitt, as though Stanley had just made a brilliant drive in the cricket-field instead of striking his best friend.

The Hero of Garside School

'No chance of a game!' sighed Pelham, thinking of the swamped cricket-field.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Germantown, and amid the huzzas of thousands of its friends, presented to the club a handsome set of colors, and, hoisting them to the breeze, alluded in his own graceful style to the memories of the past, and the achievements which he predicted the future would witness on this magnificent cricket-field.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various