A great blue bowlful of snowballs overflowed on the polished table.
The shouts of the leaders, and the snowballs bursting like shells about our ears, made it very lively.
At two o'clock all the fighting boys of the Temple Grammar School, and as many recruits as we could muster, lay behind the walls of Fort Slatter, with three hundred compact snowballs piled up in pyramids, awaiting the approach of the enemy.