cricket-club

In the cricket-club committee, on which I served for a year or two, it was noticeable that the members, eager for proper arrangements to be made, often sat tongue-tied and glum, incapable of urging their views, so that only after the meeting had broken up and they had begun talking with one another did one learn that the resolutions which had been passed were not to their mind.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

The Tantalus spirit-stand -- stood upon the walnut sideboard, and the bronzes from the cricket-club looked splendid upon each side of the mantelpiece.

A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The captain of the cricket-club was on the ground that day, and I managed to get into conversation with him, and strolled off in the grounds.

Recalled to Life Grant Allen 1873

As I returned in my cab to the city, I could see the English colours fluttering from her topmast, and the flag of the English cricket-club waving from her stern.

The Fixed Period Anthony Trollope 1848

Messrs Wilson have proved the immense advantage which their boys derive from these excursions: the hope, the stimulus to exertion -- as only those who have worked hard at school, and behaved well generally, join the cricket-club and the excursionists -- the health, the incentive to good conduct, and the preservation from evil habits; all these varied good effects have convinced the directors that it is money well spent -- money that will bring in a richer percentage than government securities or Australian gold-fields could give, for it brings in the percentage of virtue.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 Various 1841