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I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Andrew Lang

You've got individuality, stay with it. These are things that should be explored and developed. I've seen fossils of old tree stumps on the beach representing ancient forests -- that's a story worth telling.

Johnathan Tourtellot

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

Norman Tebbit

Most states along the route required trees to be sawed off even with the ground. Illinois allowed the foresters to leave a stump no higher than 15 inches. The big freight wagons were able to clear the stumps, but the smaller farm and family wagons had to steer around them.

Mary Truitt

It was a great to get a couple of wickets. The first one flushed out the nerves and I settled down a bit after that. My head must have been down because I didn't see what happened, but I heard the stumps shatter.

Shaun Tait

Most of them were in (schools) in wooded areas with a lot of stumps.

Bob Eisenhauer

I drove by and I saw these two 8-foot tall stumps ... and thought, that's what I'm looking for.

Frank Hyman

HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- 'Hypochondriasis.' It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy.

Ambrose Bierce

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

George Norman Douglas

When they were done mining, they used to dump old stumps, car bodies, slop that they didn't want into the entry and cover it up. That only lasts 30 to 50 years.

Ginger Kaldenbach