| 单词 | billiard ball |
| 例句 | The questions about his family still knocked around in his head like billiard balls. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When two objects come together in the real world–billiard balls are most often used for illustration–they don’t actually strike each other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Europa turns out to be as smooth as a billiard ball despite the network of lineations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way back, his bag rips and the coconuts scatter in the street like billiard balls. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The molecules can be thought of as little billiard balls continually colliding with each other and bouncing off the walls of the box. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you don’t stop feeling and start instructing, I’m going to rip out your eyes and replace them with these billiard balls.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Every time the ship tilted, a mismatched herd of sports equipment rolled across the floor—footballs, basketballs, baseballs, and for some reason, a single billiard ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Arriving there, she staged hit-and-run raids on three of the saloons, tossing billiard balls into huge, expensive mirrors and plate glass windows. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She looked like she was trying to swallow a billiard ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He hated making her work so hard, but he felt like a sack of billiard balls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z From the opening sub-Hitchcock cut, from eyeball to sun to billiard ball, it’s a work of bizarre period art. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Inside a theater among the warehouses of L.A.'s Arts District, an ensemble of actors in their early 20s scattered across a bare stage like billiard balls after the strike of a cue. Deaf West Theatre makes Tony winner 'Spring Awakening' all its known 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z We rolled billiard balls together once at your father’s house. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z A juggler asked for billiard balls and began juggling again. A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Rhythms in leather and wood can sound beautifully like billiard balls caroming. Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Increase Planck's constant, and suddenly billiard balls in a pub dissolve into interpenetrating puffs of probability. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z And then the Democrats, with their inability to hit a billiard ball, how much will they screw it up? ‘The Good Fight’: Michelle and Robert King Give Closing Arguments 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “There were guys who’d go into the pit with hammers, with a sock filled with billiard balls. It was crazy.” ABC No Rio Fondly Recalls the Saturdays of Its Gritty Youth 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z A lot of it was about sounds rather than music – the clack-clack of billiard balls, the blaring of horns, the tick-tock of clocks – but all with the rhythmic quality Francis wanted. How we made ... Francis Ford Coppola and Stewart Copeland on Rumble Fish 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z A truck honking at a jaywalker sends the rats scattering like billiard balls struck by a cue, but only for a second or two. Dumping ground and refuge: For those who know how to navigate L.A.’s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z One of the dancers was wearing the headset: Was his yearning to move, temporarily stymied by his fellow performer, powering those restlessly careening billiard balls? Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “The killing of the father in the first act determines the fate of all the characters. They are pushed like billiard balls and can only continue rolling passively.” An Opera Director With the Mind of a Filmmaker 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z For example, the young Xenia and her chorister are so infatuated and oblivious to all around them that they "banked like billiard balls off the other dancers." 'The Mirrored World': the clash of faith and reason in 1700s St. Petersburg 2012-09-06T20:20:04Z Jimmy Fallon's latest silly celebrity game involved a massive pool table, bowling bowls standing in for billiard balls and a beer-chugging Jude Law. Jimmy Fallon, Jude Law go pool bowling on 'Tonight Show' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Before he alighted on a career in comedy, Woody Allen aspired to be a magician, spending hours every day practising sleight-of-hand tricks with billiard balls, coins, cards and rings. Magic in the Moonlight: Woody Allen's film is as airy as they come – first look review 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z But they also come at us with cartoonish verve, like giant balloons, billiard balls or slices of huge planets. The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “Cartel members are not billiard balls or atoms locked into mechanistic reactions to external shocks,” they wrote. How many people work for the Mexican drug cartels? Researchers have an answer 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z His would-be challengers have been sizing up political billiard balls for the possibility of an increasingly tricky bank shot: persuading Republican voters to forsake him, while presenting themselves as the movement’s heir apparent. Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals, Shielding Him, Reveal Their 2024 Predicament 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Floating playing cards and inducing the disappearance of several billiard balls, Ms. Dea “completely mystified the audience with her legerdemain,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal said in a review. Gloria Dea, Las Vegas magician who vanished into obscurity, dies at 100 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z But what about collisions, such as those between billiard balls, in which objects scatter to the side? College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z When waves interact with each other, they show interference patterns that are not displayed by macroscopic particles such as the billiard ball. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z When a positively charged alpha particle strikes a nucleus, it reverses direction, much as a cue ball reverses direction when it strikes another billiard ball. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z We marveled at a billiard ball rolling backward and snapped photos of each other standing at seemingly impossible angles. Leaning into the mystery on a weekend getaway to Santa Cruz, Calif. 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z “We will prove wrong those who are currently portraying our continent as a billiard ball in a great geo-economical game between China and the United States.” German leader champions new tack on climate at Davos event 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z This situation is nearly the case with colliding billiard balls, and precisely the case with some subatomic particle collisions. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Two dozen billiard balls roll on tracks, striking a series of devices that set off a tintinnabulation of bells, chimes and metallic clinks. George Rhoads, creator of whimsical ‘ball machine’ sculptures, dies at 95 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson told reporters that some of the protesters were equipped with items that could be used as weapons, including billiard balls, rocks, bats and shields. Curfew imposed in Brooklyn Center after violent Daunte Wright protests; 100 arrested 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Therefore, if other stars possess Oort clouds similarly to the sun, these clouds touch each other like collections of densely packed billiard balls. Was the Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua a Nitrogen Iceberg? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z The neutrons might smash and knock loose protons in a person’s tissue, transmitting momentum like billiard balls, Wimmer-Schweingruber says. Moon safe for long-term human exploration, first surface radiation measurements show 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z The assumption that the scattering of billiard balls is elastic is reasonable based on the correctness of the three results it produces. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z But instead of breaking a rack of billiard balls, it might cause them to wobble. Direct Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z In one major result, she and Alex Eskin of the University of Chicago in Illinois studied the chaotic dynamics of billiard balls. Stirring biopic of the first woman to win top maths prize 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z “People have brought over a lot of collections — stress ball collection, dinosaurs that their kids aren’t playing with anymore, action figures, billiard balls, little miniature board games,” Ms. Mead said. In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z From the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, ivory was a luxury commodity used to produce piano keys, billiard balls, buttons and hair combs. 2020 in science and culture: Nature’s pick of the listings 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The underlying idea, Clark tells the Guardian, was “what if we just imagine people like billiard balls and go from there?” Inside the six-figure project to solve the mystery of NBA flopping 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Or is it the sun’s reflection being bounced from building to building like a billiard ball made of photons? Perspective | A trick of the light: Reflections of an L Street building color the neighborhood 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z “The chip is like a conjurer’s sleight of hand that turns an egg into a billiard ball, a necessity of life into a plaything, reality into illusion,” Mr. Alvarez wrote. Al Alvarez, British critic and author who championed poetry and poker, dies at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Together with the late Iranian Fields Medal-winning mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, he tackled the ‘billiard ball problem’, which considers the possible paths a ball will take as it bounces around polygonal billiard tables. First ever picture of a black hole scoops US$3-million prize 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Once the 26-year-old was fired, witnesses told police she grabbed a billiard ball and threw it at her manager, striking her in the face. Oklahoma woman arrested for throwing billiard balls at boss after getting fired, report says 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Second, the SMU researchers confirmed that human collisions are subject to the same laws of physics as billiard balls. Inside the six-figure project to solve the mystery of NBA flopping 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Dr. Vinokur likened the challenge to sending a speeding billiard ball back to where it started. For a Split Second, a Quantum Computer Made History Go Backward 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Because the back row of metal filaments carries a negative charge, the ions careen toward it like magnetized billiard balls. Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Himalayas distort Earth's contour only about as much as a human hair would that of a billiard ball. Exoplanet Everests May Be Detectable When Giant Telescopes Come Online 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Some 4.5 billion years ago, prevailing theories hold that dozens of chunks of rock and dust, called protoplanets, circled our sun and collided with each other like cosmic billiard balls. Diamonds in a Meteorite May Be a Lost Planet’s Fragments 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z A billiard ball goes in this direction, or that. Did Stephen Wolfram's Knowledge Engine Just Become a Quantum Neural Blockchain AI? 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Yet Albert Einstein showed in 1905 that light travels as particles, called photons, each of which can knock an electron out of an atom like a miniature billiard ball. Review | How quantum mechanics defies our sense of logic 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In the classical world of billiard balls, projectiles and apples falling from trees, they were never problems. Einstein, Bohr and the war over quantum theory 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The Himalayas distort Earth’s surface only about as much as a human hair would that of a billiard ball. Exoplanet Everests May Be Detectable When Giant Telescopes Come Online 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In later work, Mirzakhani studied the dynamics of a billiard ball, or point mass, moving in a polygon. Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Her mathematical interests included the theoretical study of complex geometric shapes and the movement of billiard balls across surfaces. Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win Fields Medal in mathematics, dies at 40 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z A billiard ball struck with force from one direction will move with equal force in the opposite direction. Tupelo woman encourages young girls to be ‘dream achievers’ 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Hyperobjects might not seem to be objects in the way that, say, billiard balls are, but they are equally real, and we are now bumping up against them consciously for the first time. 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Western demand for ivory ornaments, jewellery, piano keys and billiard balls helped reduce the African elephant population from more than 20 million in the year 1800 to just two million by 1960. Can China's ivory trade ban save elephants? - BBC News 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Momentarily they turn yellow again, only to fall in with the other foils, all of them dispersing and colliding, like billiard balls sent scattering across a table. Keep Your Eye on the Balls to Become a Better Athlete 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z She also studied the dynamics of how particles move or flow across surfaces — like the trajectory of billiard balls rolling on tables of different configurations. Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win Fields Medal in mathematics, dies at 40 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z As the game gained popularity in the 19th century, an equipment supplier offered $10,000 for a suitable substitute for the scarce elephant ivory then used to make billiard balls. Need a Breakthrough? Offer Prize Money! 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Ellis compares searching for evidence of dark matter to watching billiard balls roll away after the cue ball hits them on the break shot. Dark matter: What's the matter? : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Planets are knocked about like billiard balls and worlds are destroyed thanks to the caroming flying saucer carrying the cowering critter to and fro through the great void. ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’: chaos on a cosmic scale 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z She crashed them together then spread them apart, like billiard balls, describing the structure she wanted for ‘‘Innocents and Others’’: The two strands of the story meet and then separate. The Quietly Subversive Fictions of Dana Spiotta 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s like when a billiard ball hits another—life goes off at a completely different angle.” What Happens After a Terrorist Attack? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Particles of air can also be knocked into space through collisions with incoming solar wind particles, like billiard balls. Mars’ Atmosphere Stripped Away by Solar Storms, NASA Says 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Once, history was a game played with giant billiard balls: wars, revolutions, scientific inventions, the major awards shows. Did 1995 Change Everything? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The rock face is not quite like a billiard ball, it has some cracks, lumps and rough edges. Who What Why: How do you climb a smooth rock face? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z McMullen had just solved a long-standing problem related to the behaviour of billiard balls on a type of abstract table that can be folded up into a doughnut surface with two holes. 365 days: Nature's 10 The volunteers will be divided into Keystone Kops, billiard balls, wooden soldiers and 25 more teams, each assigned to a balloon or float. Amateurs learning how to clown around for parade 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Wearing $1,500 protective suits, the crew of around 10 workers wiped down video game consoles and toilet seats, pool cues and billiard balls. After Ebola Diagnosis, New York Calls On Bio-Recovery Crew 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He shunts the question at me like a billiard ball. An excerpt from Russell Brand's book 'Revolution' 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Paddles and clubs and billiard balls are everywhere. Nelson Cruz Savors His Fresh Start With Orioles 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He installed a 180-foot mock pool table on his ranch, complete with giant billiard balls, and a billboard that simply said, “Actual Size.” Stanley Marsh 3, who built Texas’s ‘Cadillac Ranch,’ dies at 76 This nationalistic urge to hit billiard balls against one another with a wooden cue was a guiding reason the pool hall’s owner, Dae Un Kim, opened it. No Pockets, No Problem 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Such early plastics were highly desirable because they allowed everything from brooches and hair combs to billiard balls, previously only available in expensive ivory, to be made cheaply. 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes 2013-12-10T04:07:26Z BH: No, you’ve got to think of your entity not as billiard ball. The Wholeness of Quantum Reality: An Interview with Physicist Basil Hiley 2013-11-05T00:15:15.043Z As every infant knows, but too many scientists ignore, people aren’t biological billiard balls. The Limits of Psychophysics, And Physics 2013-06-28T13:15:10.183Z The interaction of those two electrically neutral particles yields two oppositely charged particles, a positively charged proton and a negatively charged muon, which scatter outward like billiard balls struck by a cue ball. Particle Pals: Neutrino Experiment Shows Protons and Neutrons Pairing Up 2013-06-24T19:15:00.307Z Imagine how complex Newton’s third law would be if for every action there was one of n possible reactions, depending on how each biological billiard ball felt that day? Science's Cult of Calculation 2013-04-10T01:45:00.633Z "There were people being carried away on stretchers, fans on the edge of the pitch and players constantly looking up at their families because billiard balls were being thrown at the directors' box," he says. Luton Town v Millwall 1985 – the night football died a slow death 2013-02-15T12:54:24Z Thor’s flight is a souped-up version of Newton’s cradle or the billiard balls. The God of Thunder, And Momentum 2013-02-07T15:45:00.263Z When cosmic rays hit Mercury’s surface, he explains, “they bust apart atomic nuclei, sending neutrons bouncing around like billiard balls.” Ice (and Maybe Organics) on Mercury 2012-11-30T10:45:00Z The most obvious is that there is another Russian Doll, and the smallest particles are tiny billiard balls. The smallest thing in the universe 2012-09-03T01:39:46Z It is used for billiard balls, piano keys, carved art and jewelry, authorities said. New York jewelers admit sale of 1 ton of illegal ivory 2012-07-12T21:24:21Z Newton’s second law links the force brought on a system—a billiard ball rolling on a green felt table—to its acceleration. How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your "Free" Will 2012-05-16T18:20:46.707Z A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Judging by the weight of billiard balls a single tusk of ivory would be a pretty heavy load for two or three men, and we might be two or three weeks getting back. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z An electron, for example, might behave much like a bullet or billiard ball, following a path through space and time with well-defined values of position and momentum every step of the way. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival [Excerpt] 2012-01-30T18:15:00.243Z Mose declared, rolling his eyes until they looked like white billiard balls. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z Men are like billiard balls—they would all go into the right pockets in a few generations, if rightly propelled. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Planets caromed around like so many billiard balls, their gravity whipping smaller objects both outward into deep space and in toward the sun. Our Solar System May Have Lost a Fifth Giant Planet 2011-11-14T09:00:00Z Below I heard the soft click of billiard balls. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z In this caricature Charles X. is attempting to break with his teeth a billiard ball on which is written the word "Charter." The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Whether the billiard ball is struck by a professional player or by an amateur, provided it be struck in a particular way the result is in both cases identical. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z Of this kind was one I remember, little Freezing-powders, as black as midnight, and shining all over like a billiard ball, with his round curly head and pleasant dimply face. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Usual expressions, the ordinarily adequate figures—comparisons with knees, with billiard balls—sink into impotence, are sacrilege before the Awfulness of the thing. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z During the colonial period ivory was highly prized and exported for use as piano keys, billiard balls and other products. Kenya Burns Tusks to Counter Growing Ivory Smuggling 2011-07-20T21:45:12.647Z I always adored a bald-headed baby and you had a head like a little billiard ball.” Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z The necessary accessories are a red, a black, and a white billiard ball, all solid. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z They demonstrated that it is possible to do computation by firing ideal, frictionless billiard balls at one another. The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation 2011-06-01T17:45:02.143Z Perhaps that's because celluloid didn't make very good billiard balls—at least not at first. A Brief History of Plastic's Conquest of the World 2011-05-29T14:15:02.467Z He’s certainly bald, and his head shines like a billiard ball. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z His breakfast eggs were constantly hard boiled, despite his ironic inquiries as to whether she thought he wanted them for billiard balls. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z The performer then takes a small silk handkerchief and rolls it up in his hands, when it is seen to have become transformed into a billiard ball. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z To start the computation we fire a billiard ball into the computer wherever we wish to input a 1. The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation 2011-06-01T17:45:02.143Z But one of the biggest uses was for billiard balls. A Brief History of Plastic's Conquest of the World 2011-05-29T14:15:02.467Z The round little mouth rolled out the words as if they were round, smooth, white billiard balls, which a playful child shoots here and there over the green cloth. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z When a billiard ball in motion strikes another at rest it communicates some or all of its motion to the other, and that is all: nothing simpler! Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The Dissolving Billiard Ball.—This forms an excellent conclusion to a billiard ball trick. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z After the computer has reached an answer we reflect the billiard balls back into it, undoing the computation. The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation 2011-06-01T17:45:02.143Z The situation was most dire in Ceylon, source of the ivory that made the best billiard balls. A Brief History of Plastic's Conquest of the World 2011-05-29T14:15:02.467Z Jim had just come from the barber's where he had his head shaved, and his entire scalp down to the hat line was as smooth as a billiard ball. The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah 2011-03-14T03:01:07.627Z The same man looking out with sun-scorched face from the salon window and the same click from the self-willed billiard balls on the uncertain table below. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z A billiard ball is placed in a small tumbler, which is in turn wrapped in a piece of newspaper and deposited in a borrowed hat. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Of course we could install some kind of corrective device that would return any errant billiard ball to its desired path, but then we would be obliterating information about the ball's earlier history. The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation 2011-06-01T17:45:02.143Z A billiard ball sure beats a six-shooter for quick action. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The pyramid balls are usually a little smaller than the billiard balls; the former are about 2 in. in diameter, the latter 21⁄16 in. to 21⁄8 in. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Small groups of protesters threw flares, billiard balls and paint bombs outside parliament, and officers, some on horses, rushed to reinforce the security cordon. U.K. Parliament votes to triple tuition fees 2010-12-09T20:07:00Z In addition to these paraphernalia you will require two india-rubber balls to match in size and color the ordinary billiard balls. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Many of the difficulties inherent in the billiard-ball computer can be made less extreme if microscopic or submicroscopic particles, such as electrons, are used in place of billiard balls. The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation 2011-06-01T17:45:02.143Z "Well, then, look!" she cried, making them the size of billiard balls right under my nose. Deep Moat Grange The last scraps of warning roll like billiard balls. Woman Earlier small groups of protesters threw flares, billiard balls and paint bombs, and officers, some on horses, rushed to reinforce the security cordon. U.K. Parliament votes to triple tuition fees 2010-12-09T20:07:00Z The following preparations must be made:— A small rabbit is placed in the right hand profonde, and a billiard ball and a small dinner plate are laid on the table. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z He walked feebly, supporting himself with a stick, upon which his thin yellow fist was clutched till the knuckles stood out and shone like billiard balls in the moonlight. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance "Let me think," he said, scratching the top of his head, which was as bald as a billiard ball. Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse The click of billiard balls from either inn gave further tone to the somewhat scant air of civilisation. Tales of South Africa Bullets plowed the green cloth of the table and ricocheted from the smooth slate; bushels of billiard balls streamed through the open door and thudded on quivering flesh. Stepsons of Light He reminded one much of a billiard ball in the way he bounced, collided and ricocheted amongst taller men. The Brain Cotton is used too for many miscellaneous purposes, including the manufacture of lamp wicks and even of billiard balls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Silent Swanson was jabbing billiard balls around the table as if venting his irritability upon the innocent spheres of ivory. Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant As he passed, he could hear the click of the billiard balls and the sound of merry laughter. Banked Fires He was a very sleek, smooth-spoken fellow: the top of his shaved head shone like a billiard ball, and his tail hung four feet and a half from his shoulders. John Whopper The Newsboy When the ivory is from two to three hours in the tepid stain a crimson red results, and the addition of 1 part of sulphuric acid to 60 of stain gives billiard ball colour. Intarsia and Marquetry They's one ounce more brains in a billiard ball than they is in his head. Alex the Great The door was open and the house was quiet, but she could not hear the click of the billiard balls. Partners of the Out-Trail His head was as hairless as a billiard ball. A Nest of Spies They imagined skeleton fingers clutching their legs through the banisters, or bodiless heads rolling like billiard balls along the landings. The Madcap of the School The whole represented a closed corporation of intimacies into which she could no more force her way than a worm into a billiard ball. The Dust Flower You better not take that head of yours into no pool room," he snarls, "or somebody'll get two billiard balls and play with it for a set. Alex the Great These prototypes of the modern food tablet are about the size of a billiard ball, and consist of pulverized coffee held in shape with fat. All About Coffee Take for example the simplest possible case, that of one billiard ball striking against another. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It’s—it’s like trying to bite into a billiard ball. The Readjustment Skilfully she managed to squeeze in between two benches, and then between the table and the line of those seated at it she rolled on like a billiard ball. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 We can see how one billiard ball may set another in motion, but it is only thinkable upon the supposition that there was an agent behind the ball which put the second ball in motion. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 Also, the Galla, a wandering tribe of Africa, make large use of food balls, about the size of billiard balls, consisting of pulverized coffee held in shape with fat. All About Coffee Now the case of the billiard balls is one of the simpler examples of interaction. Introduction to the Science of Sociology If ever this earth is really finished to Nature's liking, it will be as round and polished as a billiard ball. The Book of the National Parks But across one end there were 76 several holes, into which balls, ten or a dozen, resembling miniature billiard balls, might roll. Desert Dust Immediately behind him came a slightly shorter man, but very heavy and with a head that was bald as a billiard ball. Lease to Doomsday His own garments are roomy and his sleeves could contain a multitude of billiard balls and rabbits. Indian Conjuring He used to spin the ball with a twist of his middle finger and thumb, just as you may see a billiard professional spin a billiard ball. The Wonder He walked across the room to the fireplace, and taking from the grate a lump of coal about the size of a billiard ball, he laid it upon the table. Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales Meeus, who had a spice of the tradesman in him, fell into this state of things as easily as a billiard ball falls into a pocket when skilfully directed. The Pools of Silence The teeth coming together is like the percussion of two billiard balls. Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth I gave a performance in a public place in which I did a billiard ball trick. Indian Conjuring Peyote: Made from a species of vinagrilla, about the size of a billiard ball, which grows in dry and sterile soil. Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History The man in the shirt-sleeves produced, from underneath the counter, a green pasteboard box containing four ivory billiard balls. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Aubrey bowed, and as the Countess took her departure, for she had merely paused in passing through the room, gave a vicious blow to the nearest billiard ball. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot He was not one who could divine evil events but merely a participant banging and being banged as one of life's billiard balls. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais In the trick, the greatest number of billiard balls that I have at any one time in my hands is two. Indian Conjuring Polly Vane, who's got a head like a billiard ball and has to wear a wig for decency's sake, drew herself up twice and then relaxed with a sickly grin.… Black Oxen He always had an eyeglass and wonderfully cut clothes, and his hair was brushed back till it was as shiny as a billiard ball. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France His weakness was due to the inferiority he felt when he saw the learned mathematical master juggle with figures as easily as a conjurer juggles with billiard balls. A Dominie in Doubt Ay; and have a blunderbuss fired at us, with a shower of bullets big as billiard balls. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea From below came the rise and fall of deep-voiced talk, and the incessant click of billiard balls. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest He told a native to bring him a stone, and one was brought—a nice round, heavy stone as smooth as a billiard ball—just the very wrong kind of stone. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 A good illustration of the transmission of wave-motion may be shown with a number of ivory bagatelle or billiard balls. Aether and Gravitation Are you likely to extract Homer out of the rattling of dice, or the Differential Calculus out of the clash of billiard balls? Fragments of science, V. 1-2 For a second you think that the vanished billiard ball is here. Mushrooms on the Moor His bald head gleamed like a pink billiard ball, almost matching the shining glory of his golden insignia against his scarlet tunic. Unwise Child I don't see how, with all the scarcity of ivory in the market, the billiard ball makers let you roam about at large so long. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol Girls and billiard balls kiss each other with just about the same amount of real feeling. The New Pun Book As one billiard ball will move another billiard ball, so one group will set off another group, until the whole of our land is covered with New Life from the risen Lord Jesus. The Calvary Road The latter had lost his hat, and the top of his head was as white and shiny as a billiard ball. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters Before that point was reached, a roll diverted him out of course and he was brought up by the main hatch, from which he rebounded like a billiard ball towards the starboard gangway. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands He had merry blue eyes, and his crown—he was holding his battered Derby hat in his hand—was as bare as a billiard ball. The Aztec Treasure-House The outer door swung to, cutting off the delicate click of billiard balls. Clayhanger Every motion and every arrangement of matter is definitely what it is,—a fog or an irregular scrawl, as much so as a billiard ball or a straight line. Memories and Studies My head was shaved so that it shone like a billiard ball. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People One of them still held a white billiard ball. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels The click of billiard balls was audible before she reached it. The Hand in the Dark His head is like a billiard ball, or an ostrich egg. The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys For example, when we see the impact of a billiard cue on a billiard ball followed immediately by the motion of the ball, we say that the impact is the cause of the motion. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia For example, we perceive the red billiard ball at its proper time, in its proper place, with its proper motion, with its proper hardness, and with its proper inertia. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Its water in a general way moves as does a billiard ball when it flies from one cushion to another. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography By way of a balance to this wealth of hair on his chin, a precocious baldness had despoiled his forehead, which was as bare as a billiard ball. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter It must shock our present men of the mob to hear of national interests tossed about like so many billiard balls by those powdered and ruffled handlers of the cue. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 For a moment, however, I must touch on the subject of billiard balls. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance This knowledge has nothing to do with the material; the sphere may be a solid uniform billiard ball or a hollow lawn-tennis ball. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Some he shaved so clean as to present the appearance of a billiard ball, but others he evidently considered to be worthy of French poodle treatment. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben It might have been taken for a large red billiard ball, rebounding from the green cloth. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 The captain's commands were uttered in his beautiful voice, remotely suggesting the clinking sound of colliding billiard balls. Atlantis If then the motion of our six billiard balls has anything, when it corresponds to consciousness, distinct in kind from what it always had, it can only derive this from one cause. Is Life Worth Living? He spent his nights and Sundays in making billiard balls, not at all the sort of thing you would expect of a young man of his Christian name. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Below, Lord Arranmore was idly knocking about the billiard balls, and all around him was the murmur of pleasant conversation. A Prince of Sinners It has a knack of slipping into place with a sweet silence and glibness of movement, as a billiard ball insinuates itself into the pocket. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader It suggested to Frederick the sound of colliding billiard balls. Atlantis The six billiard balls have simply changed their places. Is Life Worth Living? Hyatt tried compressed wood, but while he did not succeed in making billiard balls he did build up a profitable business in stamped checkers and dominoes. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries From the other end of the hall came the occasional click of billiard balls. A Prince of Sinners In India, those most esteemed, and which are made presents of as rarities, are no larger than a billiard ball. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. The click of the billiard ball, and the booming of the ten-pin alley, are distinctly heard. Fifth Avenue Let two billiard balls be suspended in the manner indicated in Figure 167. General Science A billiard ball in motion strikes one which has been at rest; the former loses its motion, the latter begins to roll away. An Introduction to Philosophy Crawford spun a billiard ball down the table. The Voice in the Fog Kenny's old peasant in wrinkled apple-faced cheer smiled broadly from the wall, listening to the click of billiard balls with his painted eyes upon the doorway. Kenny At intervals, when there was a lull, the click of billiard balls came from an adjoining apartment. In Friendship's Guise The click of billiard balls is heard in the glittering café at the corner of Reade Street, and a gay company smokes and sips at the Washington Hotel. Trumps Let us conceive a billiard ball in motion to come into collision with one at rest. An Introduction to Philosophy "Haggerty, suppose you and I knock the billiard balls around for half an hour?" The Voice in the Fog And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls, On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue, And elliptical billiard balls! Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs There has lately been patented in England a system for making buttons, combs, brush-handles, billiard balls, and such like articles out of milk. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 17, March 4, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The surroundings tend to make one sentimental and regret that this veritable garden of Eden should be exploited to make billiard balls and rubber tyres for automobiles and bicycles. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Coarsen it with raw spirits and rawer opinions; and set that face of thine with hog's bristles, plant a shoe-brush on thy upper lip, and send thy head to the turner of billiard balls. Prose Fancies This drug is brought from India in an almost raw state, rolled up in balls, about the size of billiard balls, and wrapped in its own leaves. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months He did astonishing things with the billiard balls, making them run all over his body like mice and balancing them on cues and juggling with them five at a time. Jaffery When he took off this last, as he did now, it revealed a head bald as a billiard ball. Mavericks Ingress by way of the front door was obviously impracticable; the marshal ducked around the corner just in time to avoid a painful meeting with a billiard ball. The Uphill Climb Catherine was a sort of cushion against which all the billiard balls of the game knocked themselves in succession, leaving her cool and elastic temper undisturbed. Esther And how can the wrathful old man produce a frown on his false forehead, which is smooth as a billiard ball? Plays by August Strindberg, Second series I tried to send all the party to bed early, and have come upstairs myself, but I still hear the click of the billiard balls, and sounds of merriment downstairs. Chateau and Country Life in France Why does a billiard ball stop when it strikes directly another ball of equal size, and the second ball proceed with the whole velocity which the first had? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Ford would declaim, and with deadly intent aim a lump of coal, billiard ball, or glass at some unfortunate individual in his audience. The Uphill Climb A fellow in my profession, in such places as this, is much like a billiard ball that finds itself shot into all sorts of corners, without the slightest ordering from any consciousness of its own. Sweetapple Cove The cooking—it would have made a billiard ball's hair stand on end with astonishment. Don Orsino The bonzes shave their heads as clean as billiard balls; while the novices content themselves with cutting their hair extremely short, leaving it, probably, not longer than one-eighth of an inch. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm A fully sociable being was one who liked to provoke responses positive or negative like billiard balls banging against each other. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America She could hear the click of the billiard balls and the voices of women mingling with those of the men. Witness for the Defense Congressman Longworth is not gifted with much hair, his head being about as shiny as a billiard ball. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations He would buy the most expensive and elaborate lathe, and spend a month trying to make a true billiard ball at it. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage That concluding stroke of the shears severed the very last lock, and left me—morally speaking—as bald as a billiard ball. The Red Thumb Mark But why was the larger black billiard ball moving to begin with? Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America The cat had socked her claws into the old lady's wig, and it came off, leaving her almost as bare as a billiard ball. Frank Merriwell at Yale The heroic woman swallowed a playful and inconvenient object like a billiard ball, which had tried to jump out of her throat. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale The yellow shoes looked as though each had half a billiard ball in the toe, and the entire tops were perforated with many diverging lines in an attempt for the decorative. Dust And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan If there had been more of them these billiard balls might have come together to spell out a message one letter at a time. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America One of his chief performances was swallowing a billiard ball. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Suddenly he heard fierce howls, and a dog as tall as a donkey, with eyes like billiard balls, came towards him, showing his teeth, which were like the prongs of a fork. The Red Fairy Book The tension of expectation could be measured by the profundity of the silence that fell upon the very click of the billiard balls. Falk A Reminiscence The billiard ball had slipped into his mouth easily enough; now, however, he could not get it out again. McTeague The click of the billiard balls reached him as he descended the stairs, but he only sighed and set out manfully for Charing Cross. The Avenger Ever seen Cinquevalli balancing a billiard ball on top of another one? The Foolish Lovers Marlopp's, however, if one had ears well trained enough to hear, resounded to the click of ivory that was not the click of pool and billiard balls! The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Try to imagine a billiard ball which feels it moves others, but which does not feel that it is moved. Initiation into Philosophy It was not so much a means to an end as a kind of virtuosity practised for its own sake, like a highly-developed skill in cannoning billiard balls. The Greater Inclination For take the converse, that a thought should call up a billiard ball! Literary Remains, Volume 1 His head was as bald as a billiard ball, and he wore a wig. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway In the orchards the trees were weighed down with fruit The red apples shone like billiard balls. Jean-Christophe, Volume I The amount of it which my friend had taken during his month's eclipse represents an ounce of dry gum opium—in rough measurement a piece as large as a French billiard ball. The Opium Habit Mary dared not touch either piano or billiard balls, and was naturally seized with a longing to touch both. Phantom Fortune, a Novel They want everything to come smooth and round as a billiard ball.” The Reign of Greed Under these conditions the recoil will produce a movement of the earth towards the north, a movement similar to that of one billiard ball touched very slightly by another.” Topsy-Turvy "Don't you understand!" he said, earnestly, and in a low voice which the click of the billiard balls prevented Stafford from hearing. At Love's Cost As they stumbled up the steep flight, Rudolph heard the click of billiard balls. Dragon's blood Ah, now! what is the matter, that makes your big eyes look like billiard balls? Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 Later, as I sauntered toward the Tudor garden, where I had hoped to encounter Miss Beverley, I heard the clicking of billiard balls; and there was Harley at the table, practising fancy shots. Bat Wing They heard the click of the billiard balls in the adjoining room. The Great Impersonation Once a vague item of obscure student jargon, the word "hacker" has become a linguistic billiard ball, subject to political spin and ethical nuances. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software The planet was, in actual fact, as smooth and as bare as a billiard ball! The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life You there seem to suppose that I instanced the action of the billiard balls and players as a parallel, throughout, to the formation of the organic world. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Although there are hundreds of different species, they have only three general forms, which have been aptly compared to billiard balls, lead pencils, and corkscrews. The Story of Germ Life From downstairs he could hear the sound of pleasantly raised voices, the music of a piano in the distance, the click of billiard balls. The Great Impersonation "What, that old fellow that looks like a billiard ball in a high collar?" muttered Minott with a twinkle in his eye. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero There came on the stage two men, each with an enormous head, bald as a billiard ball. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic In one of his songs he speaks of the billiard sharp who is condemned to play: On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Through the windows of it one can almost hear the click of the billiard balls, and a voice saying, "Hold on, father, you had your shot." Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich In the cafe at the corner, the click of billiard balls was to be heard from early morning on. Maurice Guest Two days later he would have heard through the windows of Jones’s Hotel the billiard balls still clicking joyously, but the men who held the cues then would have worn helmets like his own. Notes of a War Correspondent The click of the billiard balls came distinctly through the partition from the other room. Colonel Starbottle's Client The high ball, the billiard ball, and the race track, and now the reputation of being a difficult old martinet. Jewel And that chap, coming into a room, snapped up the gaze of every woman in it, as dexterously as a conjurer pockets billiard balls. The Good Soldier The click of billiard balls could be heard in the distance. Crime and Punishment Anybody that wouldn't congratulate you on that could swap his head for a billiard ball and make money on the dicker; the ivory he'd get would be better than the bone he gave away. Shavings From the adjoining room the faint, monotonous click of billiard balls, languidly played, came at intervals like the dry notes of cicale in the bushes. Colonel Starbottle's Client Three mortals thus juggling with years as though they were billiard balls, and my friend, the reporter, couldn't see anything funny in it! Strictly business: more stories of the four million On the left-hand side, through the door which had been left ajar, he could hear the click of billiard balls and occasional peals of laughter. The Zeppelin's Passenger I could hear billiard balls rolling somewhere, and I turned the other way. The Man in Lower Ten It's too sad and funny to go with the rattling of billiard balls. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million While he now told his troubles, the quadrilles fiddled away careless as ever, and the crack of the billiard balls sounded as of old. Lin McLean It is supposed that anybody who is suddenly sent into the world will be able at once to deduce that a billiard ball will pass its motion on to another by a push. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students A bustle of waiters, a hum of conversation, the rattle of newspapers and the click of billiard balls—this was the coffee-house. The Street of Seven Stars Towels, sheets, shirts, and slippers, along with toothbrushes, wisp-brooms, soap, the missing billiard ball, and all the lost and forgotten trifles of many months, came to light. Adventure The top of his head shines like a billiard ball. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes The boy with the billiard ball said that he had never seen it in his life before, and hazarded the suggestion that it had got into his box through some mysterious and occultly evil agency. Adventure |
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