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单词 knucklebones
例句 knucklebones
Queen Wealhtheow paced the corridors, wringing her white hands until the knucklebones nearly pierced the delicate flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then I’d fish or challenge followers to a game of knucklebones. Cult of the Lamb is a baaaalm in Gilead 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z
Videos on the Harvard Semitic Museum’s website, including a simplified version suitable for children, explain how players would move their game pieces depending on the throws of astragaloi or knucklebones. Math at the Met 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z
They all seemed very merry over a game, much like "knucklebones," which they were playing with shells. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z
But what surprised me still more was to find a cottage on her grounds which was paved entirely with sheep’s knucklebones—a novel spectacle to me, and very ingenious and curious. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z
Similarly dice are thrown for purposes of sortilege; the astragali or knucklebones, used in children’s games at the present day, were implements of divination in the first instance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth"
It is almost impossible to trace clearly the development of dice as distinguished from knucklebones, on account of the confusing of the two games by the ancient writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"
I’m an extraordinar good hand at the knucklebones, but it’s a poor piece of business playing with naebody to admire ye. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25)
You have seen Charlie and Tom play with knucklebones; the Greek children had them too, and sometimes there were numbers on them, and each bone had a different name. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)
Elizabeth Bruce fancied Cyril would be away there under the saplings playing knucklebones impatiently, and her eyes eagerly scanned the deserted playground. An Australian Lassie
The mate went cold along his spine, and the vertebræ distributed there jostled together like knucklebones on the back of a girl's hand, and he yelled "Port helm!" The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
And he was informed he was to be hanged in the Square where the peasant women come to sell fruit and vegetables and the children to play knucklebones. The Well of Saint Clare
Ronsard is here a boy playing knucklebones with language; and some of his characteristic excellences are little more than a development of this aptitude, with its more striking incongruities abated. Aspects of Literature
I'm an extraordinar good hand at the knucklebones, but it's a poor piece of business playing with naebody to admire ye. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona
While yet a child, he was playing at knucklebones with other boys in a narrow street, and when his turn came to throw, a loaded waggon was passing. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
Patroclus, when a mere boy, kills his youthful playmate in a quarrel over a game of knucklebones—an incident which may be seen illustrated in one of the statues in the British Museum. Stories from the Odyssey
This last is an exceedingly primitive and ancient game—it must date almost as far back as jackstones or knucklebones. War in the Garden of Eden
I soon found him; he was playing knucklebones in the churchyard with some other boys. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
Here and there amid this enormous game of knucklebones there could be traced the imaginary ruins of medieval cities with forts and dungeons, pepper-box turrets, and machicolated towers. Robur the Conqueror
We talk of dignity and propriety, and we are like so many children playing with knucklebones in a giant's scullery. The Return
Sails were hoisted on the short masts, oars were shipped and lashed under the bulwarks, and the thralls clustered in the prows to rest their weary limbs and dice with knucklebones. The Path of the King
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