| 单词 | battledore and shuttlecock |
| 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 It is like battledore and shuttlecock, is it not? Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth 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 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' 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 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 I am going to play at battledore and shuttlecock with the boys in the dining-room. Under False Pretences A Novel Go and have a game of battledore and shuttlecock then. The Light of Scarthey 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 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 The difference is that instead of racquet and ball, battledore and shuttlecock are used. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men I must have a game at battledore and shuttlecock, I can play that alone.” Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good Molly, with a pettish "battledore and shuttlecock indeed!" had taken her sister by the arm and left the room. The Light of Scarthey 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 I'm quite content to play battledore and shuttlecock in the hall, and I didn't want a rink, really.' Sarah's School Friend 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 Then began a most extraordinary game of battledore and shuttlecock. Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 The echoes played battledore and shuttlecock with the sound. The Adventures of Kathlyn 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 Well, my dear, I'll come, and we will play at battledore and shuttlecock to your heart's content. The Keeper of the Door "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 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 "To-morrow he is to teach me battledore and shuttlecock in the library." Mistress Penwick 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 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 It was funny, she didn't know any games but battledore and shuttlecock and les graces. The Story of the Treasure Seekers 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 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 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 Then, in the midst of the empty, echoing courtyard, Nana, Pauline and other big girls engaged in games of battledore and shuttlecock. L'Assommoir 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 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 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 two kept up a battledore and shuttlecock of agitated conversation. Once Aboard the Lugger The girls play battledore and shuttlecock and bounce balls, and the boys spin tops and make them fight. 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 "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 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 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 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 No sound of merriment was now to be heard—no battledore and shuttlecock- -no ball, no marbles. 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 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 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 It was more on the style of the present game of badminton or battledore and shuttlecock. The Art of Lawn Tennis 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 |
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