| 单词 | battledore |
| 例句 | But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adèle and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But I didn’t laugh at the time, I can tell you, because it meant two aunts playing battledore and shuttlecock. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z When they came back to the palace later in the day the King was playing at battledore and shuttlecock with some of his gentlemen, and was very angry at being interrupted in his game. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z Ping′-pong, a kind of indoor lawn-tennis, played with battledores or small rackets over a net on a table. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z One trifling incident occurs to me as I write, the Poet’s remarkable skill at battledore. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z In spite of their mutual hostility, this game of battledore and shuttlecock between Chiari and Goldoni enabled the literary Conservatives to regard both playwrights as flying under one flag. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z She was asked by her mother one day whether she had not played battledore and shuttlecock before breakfast. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z And yet, although it be my fate To hover indeterminate, I rest content, nor ask for more Than this sweet game of battledore. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z “Not too much gaslight, some practice, and plenty of battledore and shuttlecock,” is the proper recipe for little Master Josef. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z He made his characters play a game of verbal battledore and shuttlecock. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z It was like a game of battledore and shuttlecock. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z I have often secured a dozen in a few minutes on one or other of these plants, first knocking them down with a battledore. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z I think every fibre of me, moral, physical, mental, spiritual, revolted then and there against being made longer a mere shuttlecock for the battledores of Fate. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z No sound of merriment was now to be heard—no battledore and shuttlecock—no ball, no marbles. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z I wish now that I had thought to cut into the rapid battledore and shuttlecock of the conversation to learn why he had not been. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Wooden-Leg, my friend, this is like playing battledore and shuttlecock; what is knocked forward with one hand is knocked back with the other. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z And sure enough there they are, a battledore of the best, and twenty shuttlecocks, meetly feathered and gilded. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z He excels in the battledore and shuttlecock of love-making; he tells us far more of the manner of well-bred contemporary society than Massinger. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Girls play out-of-doors with battledore and shuttlecock; they also play with cotton-balls, which they toss with their dainty hands against hard floors. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z They stood there in the midst of the land they so arrogantly claimed, ready to toss her away once more in the everlasting game of battledore and shuttlecock. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z In the game of battledore and shuttlecock, the latter has no chance except to take the thing coolly, without temper. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Up and down he went, beating the bushes with his battledore, his eyes on the ground, drawing breath heavily as if he had lost his dearest treasure. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z They soon got into a discussion upon the merits of different composers, whose names served them to bandy to and fro in the battledore and shuttlecock of conversation. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 These discussions amused Michael most when he was able to break the rhythm of the battledores by knocking down whatever liturgical or theological shuttlecock was being used. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Books and dresses for Anna and me, a kaleidoscope, large cornucopias of candy, and games, one of them being battledore and shuttlecock. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl Into the large hall they go, and, armed with battledores, commence their fray. Faith and Unfaith One bright and wintry day during the Festival of the New Year he found himself with a company of laughing youths and maidens playing at battledore and shuttlecock. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Another and extremely pretty race, calling for great steadiness of hand and body, is the running from one end of the ground to the other with a ball balanced on a battledore. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition Yes, the fluttering thing, of a sudden taking to flight again, was now playing shuttlecock, feathered shuttlecock, to the battledore of a broad sunbeam which batted it wildly hither and yon. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling "Papa"; for I know not how I had some slight idea that he was locked up there. The Tatler, Volume 3 It is like battledore and shuttlecock, is it not? Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth “Shall it be a golden fan, or a roll of silk, or a new obi of red brocade, or a great battledore with images upon it and many light-feathered shuttlecocks?” Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z The Japanese battledore is made of light but hard wood, and is long and narrow in shape. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition The shuttlecock of religious intolerance will fall to the ground, if there be no battledores to fling it back and forth. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 To carry out the character, she held a battledore and shuttlecock in her hand. Under False Pretences A Novel Among the best toys with which to play alone are bricks, soldiers, balls, battledore and shuttlecock, and dolls. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Five dolls she had—one was black, A ball and battledore, But held them all so very tight, The roar'd and scream'd for more. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin and calling "Papa," for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) It continued foggy all day, and the children had to content themselves with skating and battledore and shuttlecock in the verandahs. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' "Is the battledore for effect, or are you going to play a game with it?" asked Rupert, who had been surveying her with cold criticism in his eyes. Under False Pretences A Novel See�about the nursery floor All her little heritage: Rubber ball and battledore, Tattered book and coloured page. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Out sprang a splendid battledore and a shower of shuttlecocks. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling papa; for, I know not how, I had some idea that he was locked up there. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Her hair was gay with knot of scarlet crinkled crepe, lacquered comb, and hairpin of tiny golden battledore. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories I am going to play at battledore and shuttlecock with the boys in the dining-room. Under False Pretences A Novel His sisters played battledore and shuttlecock in the school-room sometimes, or out in the passages on a winter’s afternoon. Not Like Other Girls He had landed from England a day before we did, and had, by his own account, been tossed about northern France like a shuttlecock, the different R.T.O.’s he dealt with being the battledores. A Padre in France It's the humour of the battledore and the shuttlecock. The Dop Doctor They spent most of the day playing with their pretty new battledores, striking with its plain side the airy little shuttlecock whose head is made of a black seed. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories "You must try, now, Mr. Vivian," she said, advancing towards him, battledore in hand, and smiling triumphantly in his face. Under False Pretences A Novel She held it with one hand, as she poised her battledore with the other. Not Like Other Girls Sister Philippa banged down her battledore on the table, and marching up, knelt before Margaret and asked forgiveness, making a face behind her back as soon as she had turned. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers It is an excellent plan to play with a battledore in each hand, and to strike with them alternately. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Even the lighter recreations of battledore and bagatelle were pursued with relentless activity. My Father as I Recall Him These were called battledores, but as Mr. Tuer has dealt with this class in "The Horn Book" so thoroughly, it would be mere waste of time to discuss them here. Children's Books and Their Illustrators I propose we go out in the garden and have a game of battledore and shuttlecock;” for this had been a winter pastime with them at the cottage. Not Like Other Girls “I’ve got a whole ball of new string, and two battledores and a shuttlecock, and a ball, and a bow and arrows.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Ned was terrified at first, as it was with great difficulty that he kept his body from playing battledore and shuttlecock. The Magic Soap Bubble Mrs. Tree as Mrs. Allonby, is a very charming battledore in the game of repartee-shuttlecock, who with eight other principal characters in the piece, has nothing whatever to do with the plot. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 Go and have a game of battledore and shuttlecock then. The Light of Scarthey Striking down such insects with a parchment-covered battledore, which Dr. Guard Knaggs considers inflicts the least injury, or impaling them with a triangle of needles stuck in cork, in the manner shown in Fig. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. “Does the King want my new ball of string, and my battledores?” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers But the friends were in a section where they had never been before, and were playing battledore and shuttlecock with a warlike tribe of whom they knew nothing. Footprints in the Forest The difference is that instead of racquet and ball, battledore and shuttlecock are used. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men Molly, with a pettish "battledore and shuttlecock indeed!" had taken her sister by the arm and left the room. The Light of Scarthey He went into the drawing-room to get one of the battledores, which were kept in an Indian cabinet. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good There are pens and ink upon the premises; orange trees, gardens, battledores and shuttlecocks, rousing wood-fires for evenings, and a welcome worth having. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 I never learned to skip till I was thirty, and at thirty-five my greatest delight was a game of battledore and shuttlecock. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Only two weapons were seen among them; these were made of green talc, and called patoo-patoo, being shaped somewhat like a pointed battledore, with a short handle and sharp edges. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries It was like battledore and shuttlecock, these huge masses whirling through the evening far above his head, now from one side, now from the other. One Man's Initiation—1917 I must have a game at battledore and shuttlecock, I can play that alone.” Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good After a long spell of work, the battledore is seized and the shuttlecock bounces up to the glass roof. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Nothing of Mrs. Coles' could touch her; it was sure to be caught midway, shuttle-wise, and turned back, before even Hazel's battledore could have a chance at it. The Gold of Chickaree But at last the second battledore was ready to send us in the right direction. The Car of Destiny Louis and his sister now played battledore and other games after dinner, in an outer room, their aunt sitting by with her book or work. The Peasant and the Prince As she found that Norman was not disposed to garden, she invited him to have a game of battledore and shuttlecock on the lawn. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good Great matches were played between the experts of various sections, and this sport, a game really for small children, after the fashion of battledore and shuttlecock, ran its course among young and old. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Earnest thought, or a yearning for truth, and worldly folly, were playing a game of battledore and shuttlecock, and I was the feathered cork. Memoirs I descried, at various distances, aids to amusements in endless succession,—balls, bats, battledores, boxes, bags, and baskets; carts, cradles, and cups and saucers. The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Then Cléry took Louis to his aunt’s room, where they played at ball, and battledore and shuttlecock, till Louis’s supper-time, at eight o’clock. The Peasant and the Prince I see that he has gone away from the lawn and has left the battledore on the grass.” Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good No sooner had our adventurers sunk to the profoundest depths of gloom, than the battledore of brighter influences began to play upon them. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole A page of the second decade of Livy, it is said, was found by a man of letters in the parchment of his battledore, while he was amusing himself in the country. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 She paused a moment, and then, afraid of trusting herself to carry on the dialogue, she said: 'Come into the hall, and play at battledore and shuttlecock.' Gryll Grange “Why, it’s like playing shuttlecock and battledore,” said Esau grimly. To The West Come down with me into the garden, we will have a game of battledore and shuttlecock on the lawn, the fresh air will do you good.” Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good It gives opportunity merely for settings and some rare moments of costuming, the lady with the battledore reminding one a deal of a good Manet. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets He hastened to the maker of the battledore—but arrived too late! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Should the house be full and the weather prove wet, what games of battledore and shuttlecock, "bean-bags," &c., were played in it in the daytime, and what a ball-room it made at night! Belles and Ringers I'm quite content to play battledore and shuttlecock in the hall, and I didn't want a rink, really.' Sarah's School Friend Then he thought that he must take out a battledore and shuttlecock and play with it, or what he proposed doing would be suspected. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good There's nothing to be gained by playing battledore and shuttlecock46 with the name of an old man who has never done harm to any one. The Eternal City More than dominoes or Halma, lead soldiers appealed to me, and tops, marbles, and battledore and shuttlecock. The Joyful Heart They either yield to the strain, and lapse into unconsciousness, or their minds become the arena of minor emotions, wherein trivialities play battledore and shuttlecock with the tremendous issues of the moment. The Captain of the Kansas I went to my Dames, where I found Tyrrel ma, and Kennedy, who shared my room, playing at battledore. Confessions of an Etonian At any rate, he passed on; and the children—the brief battledore over in which they had been the shuttlecocks—crept back, compliant with the second order, much amazed, toward the stove. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Somebody must suffer in the battledore game of eat and be eaten, and we shall let the chain of continuous destruction rest here with the grub that reaps where he hath not sown. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Then began a most extraordinary game of battledore and shuttlecock. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The echoes played battledore and shuttlecock with the sound. The Adventures of Kathlyn It was a glorious howl, but the rock walls seemed to catch it as a battledore catches a shuttlecock, and send it bounding back to me. The Motor Maid It takes two to do more things than make a bargain, and to battledore love without having it shuttlecocked back isn't much fun. Kitty Canary Some were playing with nuts, some with battledores, some with balls. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet And though she's been foolish and treated life rather as though it were a game of battledore and shuttlecock, she's never done anything to unfit herself to be my wife. The Moon out of Reach The book published, the Sireniacal Gentlemen took off their coats and took up their battledores. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Presently the battledores of both batteries were at work, and rapid compliments of shuttlecocks were very promptly exchanged. Israel Potter Well, my dear, I'll come, and we will play at battledore and shuttlecock to your heart's content. The Keeper of the Door To this suggestion the Boy made no response, save to tighten his lips, resolving, I supposed, that if hearts were flying about like shuttlecocks, his battledore should be ready to catch the Contessa's. The Princess Passes In a vague and childish way, she felt herself to be the sport of mysterious powers, a little shuttlecock between the battledores of Fortune. The Redemption of David Corson "Isn't it?" said the doctor, and for a few moments more we bandied quick questions and replies like children playing at battledore and shuttlecock. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill I saw the oranges flung about in a great game of battledore and shuttlecock—as if the hurricane remembered to play in its fury! The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories The rudiments of learning began with the cross; hence it stands to this moment as a frontispiece to the battledore, which likewise bears its name. An History of Birmingham (1783) Across her knee, under her clasped hands, lay a light racket, for she had strayed this way from battledore and shuttlecock and the sprightly company of maids of honor and gentlemen pensioners engaged thereat. Sir Mortimer On another day, “one of the ladies has been playing a harpsichord, while I, with the other, have been playing at battledore and shuttlecock.” The Art of Letters No one knows it at all until after it has played battledore and shuttlecock with them, and they have been tossed to and fro for a long time. Sweetapple Cove But as our conversation was rarely concluded when we got back to his door, he returned with me, and then I went back with him, this game of battledore and shuttlecock being renewed several times. Recollections of My Youth That necessity obliged me to lay down the battledore, before I was master of the letters? An History of Birmingham (1783) Thus were they tossed about on the battledores of philanthropy, often reverting to their starting-point, to the disgust of the charitable committees. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People All day long she had been tossed back and forth like a shuttlecock by the battledore of emotion. Spanish Doubloons France, in the person of the Ambassador Mancini, bent the knee to Oliver Cromwell; and Cromwell played with Calais and Dunkirk as with two shuttlecocks on a battledore. The Man Who Laughs Then am I ready to beat her with the battledore, and grow so peevish as I grow sick, that I'll undertake she wishes there were no steel in England. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 But where were those butterfly girls, who dance with fan and battledore on our cups and saucers? Kimono Sometimes the girls bring their battledores to school. The Teacher "To-morrow he is to teach me battledore and shuttlecock in the library." Mistress Penwick Ah, if I had, you would have slain me long ere this," said I, "for I read you like a child's horn-book that he plays battledore with. Red Axe There would be no more battledore and shuttlecock with my poor brain on that subject. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy Almost every night my brain was at battledore and shuttlecock with weird thoughts. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography They also play shuttlecock, but they have no battledore. Highroads of Geography Introductory Book: Round the World with Father An hour later she stood opposite the count in the great library, swinging the battledore with grace. Mistress Penwick At the farthest end of the lawn from the house were some fine trees, under the shelter of which two girls were playing at battledore and shuttlecock, and very well they played too. Brotherly Love Shewing That as Merely Human It May Not Always Be Depended Upon The girl's plight was like a shuttlecock driven hither and yon by the battledores of many tongues. Within the Law The battledores beat at nothing, And toss the dazzle of snow Off their parchment drums. Men, Women and Ghosts It was funny, she didn't know any games but battledore and shuttlecock and les graces. The Story of the Treasure Seekers We found two in a cupboard, among a heap of old toys, tops, and hoops, and battledores and shuttlecocks. Wuthering Heights Of these battledores, Cardinal Beaufort, a relation of the King, and the Duke of Gloucester, were at first the most powerful. A Child's History of England It was the first time she had been present at a game of battledore and shuttlecock with what she regarded as fundamental morals. The Cost Plat! the battledore strikes it, And it rises again, Without haste, Winged and curving, Tracing its white flight Against the clipped hemlock-trees. Men, Women and Ghosts A life like a shuttlecock may be toss'd With the hand of fate for a battledore; But it matters much for your sweet soul lost, As much as a million souls and more. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon The family party seemed now more promising than before, and the fugitive Prince was weary of playing battledore and shuttlecock with his conscience, and much disposed to let matters go as chance should determine. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier The royal shuttlecock being three-and-twenty, the battledores were very anxious to get him married. A Child's History of England It was an exercise she loved, as indeed she loved all out-of-door exercises, from riding with hawks and hounds to battledore and shuttlecock. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Marcolina, who led the way, ran across the sunlit greensward to join the children in their game of battledore and shuttlecock. Casanova's Homecoming While admiring the magnificence of this coup d'œil, an Englishman cannot avoid being struck by the multitude of washerwomen, striving to expel the dirt from linen, by means of battoirs, or wooden battledores. Paris as It Was and as It Is The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Then, in the midst of the empty, echoing courtyard, Nana, Pauline and other big girls engaged in games of battledore and shuttlecock. L'Assommoir They played battledore and shuttlecock in the picture-gallery, and my lady laughed when her volant struck some reverend judge or venerable bishop a rap on the nose. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Besides this, the little girls had what is called a flag-race, and a contest with battledores and shuttlecocks. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series As George Herbert says, sorrows and joys are like battledores that drive a shuttlecock, and they may all 'toss us to His breast.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV His strong arms no longer wanted to play battledore and shuttlecock, they longed to throw stones. Married In both towns and villages the streets are the playground, and here they play ball, or battledore and shuttlecock, or fly kites. Peeps at Many Lands: Japan No hour of the day but offered some variety of recreation, from battledore and shuttlecock in the plaisance to long days with the hounds or the hawks. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger As improvements or variations of the horn book, cardboard sheets and wooden squares, known as battledores, appeared after 1770. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization The slate-pencils and battledores and marbles looked as if they had stood in exactly the same places long before the little girl was born. A Peep Behind the Scenes They do not constitute two parts of the same speech but ordinarily play back and forth, like a game of battledore. Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way The girls play battledore and shuttlecock and bounce balls, and the boys spin tops and make them fight. Peeps at Many Lands: Japan A good supply of balls, battledores, shuttlecocks, tops, whips, skipping-ropes, hoops, sticks, and wheelbarrows, was, therefore, obtained, and we flattered ourselves that this must produce universal happiness. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age Its furniture was still standing—even to the tarnished gilt leather battledores, and crumbling feathers of shuttlecocks in the nursery, which told that children had once played there. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia In turning, it struck the Halbrane and carried it off just as a battledore catches a shuttlecock, and now here we are, stranded at certainly one hundred feet above the level of the Antarctic Sea.” An Antarctic Mystery Put on your dress and we'll have a game of battledore and shuttlecock in the hall. Sleeping Fires: a Novel "I am afraid you think me very childish," I stammered, for I remembered that game of battledore and shuttlecock, and how excited I had been when I had achieved two hundred. Esther : a book for girls The snow-shoe, which much resembles the racket or battledore, an instrument used for striking the ball in the game of tennis. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 She had no battledore light enough to return an airy shuttlecock. Once Aboard the Lugger "Poor little kiddie," said he, and from his tone I gathered that all was not rosy in the life of the infant in this game of battledore and shuttlecock. A Fool and His Money The ice gives the one, and brandy the other, like shuttlecock and battledore. Nature and Human Nature I was only seventeen, in spite of my pronounce features, and I could still enter into the delights of a good drawn battle of battledore and shuttlecock. Esther : a book for girls But this battledore and shuttlecock of legislation does not represent the far more gradual changes in public opinion. Problems of Conduct The two kept up a battledore and shuttlecock of agitated conversation. Once Aboard the Lugger Then Hyde and Mary had a game of battledore, and she watched them tossing the gayly painted corks, until amid their light laughter and merry talk she fell asleep. The Maid of Maiden Lane I had my battledore in my hand, and fell abeating the coffin, and calling 'Papa,' for, I know not how, I had some light idea that he was locked up there. English Literature for Boys and Girls A Biscay tempest caught them, and from dark to daylight they were buffeted by the giant battledores of wind and sea. Masters of the Guild We are your mere hangers-on, camp-followers, satellites—your things, your playthings—we are the mere shuttlecocks which you toss hither and thither with your battledores, as the wanton mood impels you. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box She said she never saw such an old battledore, and you know how all the others took it up.' Beechcroft at Rockstone He was a constant visitor at the home of M. Rastoil, with whose daughters he played battledore. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; At Eton he had made a splendid showing at battledore and shuttlecock, and at Cambridge had been first in his class at needlework. Nonsense Novels Thus the two battledores played with this poor little undetected one, whom his respectability no less than his roguery placed at their mercy. It Is Never Too Late to Mend He was at the beck and call of forty rough voices; he was the one shuttlecock among eighty brawny battledores. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days We're all playing a sort of battledore and shuttlecock game—tossed about between drought and plenty—boom and slump. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Their spokes spread out like paddles or battledores; and when the "Terror" moved either on or under the water, they must have increased her pace. The Master of the World The arms of the combatants tired that they could scarcely wield the battledores. The Parent's Assistant My mother sent me last week a new battledore and shuttlecock, but I can never learn to play with it. Old Fritz and the New Era Now Master Fred Beresford encountered him in the second stage of inebriety, and, being a rough playfellow, tapped his nose with a battledore. Hard Cash Money is a serious thing; and when gone cannot be had back by a shuffle in the game, or a fortunate blow with the battledore, as may political power, or reputation, or fashion. Framley Parsonage I had my battledore in my band, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling Papa; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there. Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer No sound of merriment was now to be heard—no battledore and shuttlecock- -no ball, no marbles. The Parent's Assistant His leisure hours he spent in the writing of edifying novels, the composition of acrostics in Latin Verse, and in playing battledore and shuttlecock with his little nieces. Eminent Victorians Then he might have played foot-ball with the man, or battledore and shuttlecock as he pleased; and the twenty or thirty people who had rushed forward to assist would have only applauded. Three Men on the Bummel There is a game of shuttlecock, without the battledore, for which the feet are used as a substitute; and "diavolo," recently introduced into Europe, is an ancient Chinese pastime. The Civilization of China I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin and calling ‘Papa,’ for I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.”—STEELE, Adventures Among Books "I don't know," said Loveit, drumming upon his battledore; "but—" "You don't know, man! why, then, what are you afraid of, I ask you?" The Parent's Assistant He was known to have played battledore and shuttlecock in a moonlit garden with Mr. Previt� and some other gentlemen. The Works of Max Beerbohm It was as though the South, North, East, and West winds were all playing battledore and shuttlecock with it at once. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original He turned to the frowning and perplexed Duke—whose mind was being tossed this way and that, like a shuttlecock upon the battledore of these men's words. Mistress Wilding It was more on the style of the present game of badminton or battledore and shuttlecock. The Art of Lawn Tennis Materialism and spiritualism are a fine pair of battledores with which charlatans in long gowns keep a shuttlecock a-going. The Magic Skin Then we contradict one another like two battledores; for contradictions beget one another like Jews. The Way of the World Back in the Palace again, there was still time for a little more fun before dinner—a game of battledore and shuttlecock perhaps, or a romp along the galleries with some children. Queen Victoria But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adèle and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. Jane Eyre Anything and everything serves to keep up a game of battledore and shuttlecock with words and ideas. Father Goriot I have latterly been a shuttlecock betwixt two big battledores — New York and Florida. A Biography of Sidney Lanier |
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