"Punter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the first year's money. Hope they'll pay it in advance, don't you? then we can get it after break-up, and have some ripping spins in the summer holidays. Better fun than fooling about in Switzerland with Marky and Daisy. We'll either get that, or I know a jolly little boat Punter has for sale at Teddington, with a towing-line and double sculls, and a locker under the stern seat for grub. He wanted L22 for it, but I expect he'll come down the L2 for ready money. Perhaps it would be better to buy it this summer, and get the tricycle ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed
... ethical principle kept before the athlete by his associates is this: Never break training rules. The pitcher who smokes a cigarette throws away his game. The punter who spends the night at a dance loses his one chance of making a goal. The sprinter who takes the glass of convivial beer breaks no record. His record breaks him. Some day we shall realize that the ...
— The Call of the Twentieth Century • David Starr Jordan
... one in this gang punt?" asked McCabe, the quarterback. "We've only got one real punter in this college an' ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... McBride as head coach, was a wonder. This eleven, to our minds, was the best ever turned out by Yale University. They defeated Princeton 29 to 5, and the powerful Harvard team 28 to 0. Their one weakness was that they had no long punter, but, as they expressed it to me afterward, they had no need of one. At one time during the game with Harvard they took the ball on their own 10-yard line and, instead of kicking, marched it up the field, and in a very few rushes scored a touchdown. Harvard men afterwards ...
— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards
... introduce you, for she receives some of the best company in London), gad, sir—he mounts his horse at No. 23, and dismounts again at No. 25 A. He is now upstairs, at Bays's, playing picquet with Count Punter: he is the second-best player in England—as well he may be; for he plays every day of his life, except Sundays (for Sir Hugh is an uncommonly religious man) from half-past three till half-past seven, when ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... can get it after break-up, and have some ripping spins in the summer holidays. Better fun than fooling about in Switzerland with Marky and Daisy. We'll either get that, or I know a jolly little boat Punter has for sale at Teddington, with a towing-line and double sculls, and a locker under the stern seat for grub. He wanted L22 for it, but I expect he'll come down the L2 for ready money. Perhaps it ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed |
