"Bunter" Quotes from Famous Books
... showed no evidence of it. His face was cold, unsmiling, rigid. He had to pitch to McCall, the fastest man in the league; to Ashwell, the best bunter; to Stringer, the champion batter. It was a supreme test for a great pitcher. There was only one kind of a ball that McCall was not sure to hit, and that was a high curve, in close. Vane threw it with all his power. Carter called it a strike. Again Vane swung and ... — The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... divisions of the 'bunter sandstone', the upper being the same as the 'trias' of Alberti, while the lower division, to which the 'Vosges sandstone' of Elie de Beaumont belongs — the 'zeckstein' and the 'todtliegende' — he forms his 'Permian' system. He makes the secondary formations commence with the 'upper ... — COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt |