| 单词 | whist drive |
| 例句 | The other man took the piece of paper and pinned it on the corkboard, where the notices of dances, auction sales, whist drives, and so on were displayed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z For me," he continues, "it would become progressively more difficult to talk about music at a whist drive. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z Dangerously drunk, they ride out to Alloway Kirk, where a troupe of benign witches and warlocks is holding a whist drive for the church repair fund. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z It was, he recalled, a paper that "bothered with the little things in people's lives, the whist drives and flower shows". Obituary: Sir Harold Evans 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z They and their successors would also enjoy whist drives, concerts and dances. WW1 Anzacs who went to the seaside 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z She sees in the invalid priest a chaplain plainly provided as an answer to prayer; Mr. and Mrs. Kane, her confidants, see in the scheme immense occasion for unbridled bazaars and whist drives. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z Lady Mary and I attended a whist drive at Farmingdale Priory that evening; but her ladyship was taken with a violent headache and we had to excuse ourselves and leave early. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories It was worse when a whist drive or a singing competition in the Church Army hut was interrupted by one of these Egyptian plagues of darkness. A Padre in France Later on there were whist drives, and some of the gayer element even went to dances, classes in which gentle art were held by the 6th Battalion. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion There were platoon football matches, whist drives, paper-chases, and so on, while there was also voluntary educational training in such things as English, French, and shorthand. The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 A pig and sty constituted first prize at a recent whist drive at Bishop's Waltham. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Mrs. Buchanan had been giving a whist drive. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) There were whist drives with attractive prizes for the winners. A Padre in France Lena asked the Prime Minister one day when she happened to sit next to him at a whist drive at the Chinese Embassy. The Toys of Peace, and other papers |
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