| 单词 | skittles |
| 例句 | John Tookey showed off this new New York craze called break dancing but went spinning out of control into a group of girls, who toppled like skittles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There was a royal Punch & Judy; beach games like skittles and quoits and a stone shelter built in the 1860s, known as the Queen's Alcove, where she would sit and survey the view. Queen Victoria's private beach on Isle of Wight opens to the public 2012-07-17T06:00:02Z If you have a great joke about skittles, there's nothing wrong with that. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord 2010-08-10T20:29:00Z As they wandered in, they saw the cafe filled with Germans, so they pretended to be Frenchmen out for a drink and a game of skittles. Guy Hamilton, resourceful James Bond director, dies at 93 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Other activities include a frozen salmon toss and turkey bowling , where participants line up to lob a frosty bird at a bunch of skittles. Frozen Dead Guy Days: Colorado’s weirdest festival 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Of course all the local farmers loved their skittles nights, and they thought I was ridiculing them, so I had my first taste of public furore. The first Glastonbury: 'Hell's Angels stole the ox-roast!' – a classic feature 2013-06-12T10:35:57Z But after a thorough assessment of its technical requirements it was deemed too difficult to pull off in the beer and skittles world of the Fringe. Simon Callow's critical re-appraisal 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The list is heavy as it includes reaching for a wallet, sitting in a car, knocking on a door asking for help, holding skittles. Jon Stewart mocks “gang-sign” controversy: “All this time, I’ve been the lead-in for a notorious gang member” 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Many became neighborhood institutions where families passed evenings over games of darts, cribbage, skittles and snooker. Heads Up : Britain’s Working Men’s Clubs Succumb to Modern Life 2014-04-15T20:59:22Z I said in the papers that if skittles was the ultimate form of local entertainment then it was a pretty poor culture. The first Glastonbury: 'Hell's Angels stole the ox-roast!' – a classic feature 2013-06-12T10:35:57Z The rest, after the ritual dissecting, where buried in the Castle Yard where little children visiting the museum now amuse themselves with a game of Victorian skittles. Not in York's guidebooks - yet. Take a walk through radical York 2013-01-16T07:01:00Z "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful?" the message said. British artist sues Trump campaign over anti-refugee 'Skittles' tweet 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z A gang of jugglers toss a few skittles through the air so easily that you might think they were shoving them on to an invisible conveyor belt. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z Passing sentence, Mr Justice Andrew Baker said McHugh, of Artillery Road, Park Hall, Shropshire, had reacted to verbal abuse directed at his erratic driving by treating pedestrians "like they were human skittles". Driver who steered into crowd jailed for Rebecca Steer's murder 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The first edition of the beer guide in 1972 cost 75p and had very brief descriptions of 1,500 pubs and 105 breweries - The Queen's Head being a "friendly pub with hot snacks and skittles". Queen's Head, Newton: In the Good Beer Guide for 50 years 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “Football isn’t a game of skittles,” Lemerre observed of Muscat’s challenge. De Bruyne isolating with Covid, Ogbonna out for season: football countdown – live! 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Team names included Blah Blah Blah - they took to the pitch to the theme tune from the Champions League - and goal celebrations included all players falling down like skittles in a representation of ecological collapse. Sport at COP26 – what did we learn? 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z In America, presidential primary elections have gone down like skittles, the Democratic national convention has been postponed and campaigns are frozen in time. The US presidential election is frozen in time – can it survive? 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z “Now it’s hard to get a skittles team of six together,” said Wilkinson. Summer rentals to pay off the mortgage: the village changed by Airbnb 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, it does still have the same skittles table - although it has just been dismantled to make way for Christmas decorations. Queen's Head, Newton: In the Good Beer Guide for 50 years 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Upgrade their water bottle to this sleek design that’s inspired by retro 10 pin bowling skittles and functions as a portable work of art. Gifts for minimalists: A little something that’s almost nothing | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z "When people ask me what white privilege is.... Imagine if this was a white boy in a hoodie with a bag of skittles who was just trying to walk home." Ava DuVernay slams Melania Trump, Liam Neeson for white privilege 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In September 2016, he likened Syrian refugees to a bowl of potentially lethal skittles. Donald Trump Jr. likens border wall to zoo enclosures 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z There will be a strong Open section and four other class tournaments, along with skittles, side events and paraphernalia for sale. Chess world kept busy during Carlsen-Caruana clash 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Has he tried the famous bar skittles mentioned in the original guide? Queen's Head, Newton: In the Good Beer Guide for 50 years 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z There is no charge to watch, and there should be plenty of skittles action and chess paraphernalia on sale. Spending the holidays with some dear old chess friends 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z So many powerful men are falling like skittles after multiple allegations, something is really changing, right? Should sexual harassers Harvey Weinstein and Louis CK be given a second chance? | Suzanne Moore 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Devil among the tailors is one of many variations of table skittles, which is claimed to be a forerunner to tenpin bowling. The weird and wonderful world of pub games - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z At Oxford Crown Court, prosecutor Michael Roques said another driver described the lorry "ploughing through all the other vehicles in the queue, scattering them like skittles". Lorry driver jailed for child's crash death on A34 - BBC News 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z “He was just collecting people as he was going along and they were flying like skittles, basically,” Baylis told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. 4 killed, 15 hurt after car strikes pedestrians in Melbourne 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem,” he tweeted. Words that will never be the same after this election 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Donald Trump’s campaign once again drew derision from critics, this time for Donald Trump Jr.’s comparison of Syrian refugees to a bowl of skittles with a scattering of poisoned candies. Syria, U.S. Presidential Race, Tulsa: Your Evening Briefing 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Another variant is Northamptonshire skittles, in which players throw "cheeses" at the skittles and bounce them off the table's cushions. The weird and wonderful world of pub games - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z On Monday night, his son, Donald Jr, wrote a tweet comparing refugees to poisoned skittles. Trump says Syrian refugees aren't just a terrorist threat, they'd hurt quality of life 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z His campaign also had to deal with criticism after his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, compared Syrian refugees with poisoned skittles in a tweet on Monday night. Trump lambasted for claiming black communities are in 'worst shape ever' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z If you told me that three @skittles in each bowl are poisonous, I'd look at the data and conclude that you're wrong about Skittle safety. Donald Trump Jr compares refugees to poisoned Skittles: how Twitter reacted 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z In the space of one month in South Africa, Lomu reduced the finest players on the planet to skittles and speedbumps. Jonah Lomu: Real-time superhero, wrecking ball, force of nature 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Stuart Broad collects smartly, and skittles the stumps with Warner diving for the crease! Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day one – live! 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z At times the near 20-stone Vunipola looked like he was playing human skittles and his ability to get Saracens on the front foot was hugely impressive. Saracens 33-10 Munster 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z He described the crash as "like a bowling ball hitting skittles". Rally crash deaths probe continues 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It is 200 years ago since the last "frost fair" - an impromptu festival on a frozen Thames, complete with dancing, skittles and temporary pubs. When an elephant walked on the frozen River Thames 2014-01-28T00:43:48Z One witness described the scene as being like someone bowling at skittles and people being flung like skittles to the side. Man jailed for 'revenge' hit-and-run 2013-10-31T14:41:45Z Stuart Broad collects smartly, and skittles the stumps with Warner diving for the crease! Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day one – live! 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z There was table football, skittles and a big wheel at the SPD celebration - but not much optimism about victory. German opposition faces daunting task 2013-08-23T00:12:18Z Students and teachers at East Side wore hoodies and carried skittles and iced tea. SchoolBook: At East Side Community, a Stand Against Racial Profiling 2012-05-08T18:53:40Z Nor are beer and skittles unadulterated the lot of the undergraduate either--whatever the impression that his sisters and cousins may derive from the gaieties of the Eights and 'Commem.' Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z Cecil went off to his home-work and left Arthur to explain the new game—a complicated invention in which five small skittles, a cork, and a bell suspended from the gas-bracket each played a part. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z "Life ain't all skittles," he observed; "but beer is beer the round world round!" and he drained the pot and tossed it dripping to an honoured scullion. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Trig, trig, n. a skid for a wheel, &c.: the mark for players at skittles, &c.—v.t. to stop, to obstruct, to skid. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Why, a year ago they played mere skittles—not what you could properly call golf. Mr. Punch's Golf Stories 2012-01-28T03:00:25.907Z Even then the powers that be had decreed that life should not be completely beer, nor altogether skittles. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z We bowled a lot of them over like skittles those who had already passed broke and fled, but those in the rear, instead of running away, dashed towards us with pistol and cutlass. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z I'm in no humour for skittles to-night, if you don't mind.' A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z In the same way, players at skittles, even after a throw, try to give a direction to the ball by turns and gestures. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z You must know that a gentleman gipsy’s life isn’t all beer and skittles. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Alley, al′li, n. a walk in a garden or shrubbery: a passage in a city narrower than a street: a long narrow enclosure for playing at bowls or skittles:—pl. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z During the week the town seems deserted; only the Jewish children run about the streets playing at quoits and skittles. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z He then told me that when his father took a holiday, he drove to some country part near London—Islington, or maybe Hampstead—and spent the day in playing skittles and drinking beer. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z Poetry has been as serious a thing to me as life itself; and life has been a very serious thing: there has been no playing at skittles for me in either. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Immediately the chevalier, walking with a determined step, threaded the crowd and turned towards the neighborhood where some young provincials were playing skittles and drinking white wine. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Then more men fell down the chimney, one after the other, and they fetched nine human shin bones and two skulls, and began to play skittles. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z Here they work, read, play at skittles, and other games; and, when the weather does not admit of their taking exercise out of doors, pass the day together. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z This put a notion into my head, and the first day of our holiday we played skittles with some short posts set up in the sand on the beach, bowling at them with cocoa-nuts. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z My grandfather was a farmer; my uncle was a farmer; my cousin who married the heiress was a gentleman farmer; my cousin who fell in love with beer and skittles was a farm labourer. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z Beside the different spectacles assembled in this place to attract idlers, strangers and young gentlemen came there to play different games of cards, of dice, ninepins and skittles. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z ‘I played skittles,’ he answered, ‘and lost a few coins.’ Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z But to allow persons to play for money at these games or at skittles or “skittle pool” or “puff and dart” on licensed premises is gaming within the Licensing Act 1872. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z But you could not well smoke there, so one by one they stole out into the garden where the skittles were already in full swing. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z By Beelzebub!" muttered the count, "must I be only a peg in this confounded game of skittles? The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z The first consisted of old and elderly men, who owned property and had something to lose, and, moreover, having actually fought, knew that war was not all beer and skittles. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z “We know what that means,” said Webster, with a smile, “and she’ll play skittles with us presently.” The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z This is a kind of game of skittles, in which, instead of bowls, long staves are used, and the winner has the right to ride on the back of his opponent. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z He needs to learn by experience that life is not all beer and skittles. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Poetry has been as serious a thing to me as life itself, and life has been a very serious thing; there has been no playing at skittles for me in either. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The second consisted of young men, who, owning nothing, had the same to lose; who had only heard of fighting, and consequently imagined that war was all beer and skittles. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z He continued to pursue his love of classical music and skittles, and coached at the Royal Grammar school, Worcester, for 12 years. Martin Horton obituary 2011-04-13T16:12:05Z It's basically a simulation of pub games like Shove Ha'Penny and skittles, with players guiding coins through a series of obstacle-strewn courses. Windows Phone 7: what do game developers think? 2011-03-29T13:16:34Z It means that he is strong enough—but you think it skittles, Colonel Creighton—to make any one do anything he wants. Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z If it took four overs for New Zealand's batsmen to set the skittles up, it took twice as many for the bowlers to knock them down. Pakistan stunned by New Zealand's blitz 2011-03-08T17:50:23Z Certainly if our mighty President is sketched in a rowing attitude, it would scarcely be a case of all skittles and straight lines. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Naeem almost skittles Joyce with a delivery which keeps low, but the left-hander just about jabs his bat down in time to ensure his three timbers are still in tact. Cricket World Cup as it happened 2011-02-25T16:17:01Z At games he would watch in astonishment the glad strength of the young fellows tumbling the reeling skittles over; and he would wander with the playing band from village to village, from fair to fair. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z From then on, all was beer and skittles. Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights 2010-12-25T03:00:15.953Z The first part of the plot was, to the most skilful criminal ‘impersonator’ in the States, mere skittles. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z Mother-of-two Mrs Poole, 66, was on her way to play for her skittles team in March last year when she was attacked near her home. Pensioner killer heard 'voices' 2010-05-04T12:38:00Z Waiter, strongly suspicious that Mr. Walker means skittles, finally awaked to consciousness, and, with a smile of triumph, produces a backgammon board. The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion And to prove it, Timson made a charge at Patty, who escaped him, however, by running up to quiet the children, who were like skittles, and upsetting one another till there was quite a chorus. A Little World Debtors were playing at racket and skittles in the court, and grouped around the entrance to the snuggery or tap-room at the further end of the barrack. In Jail with Charles Dickens I can't steer this boat and play skittles with you at the same time. Stranded in Arcady Contrary winds kept us in port a considerable time; to pass the time we played skittles outside the walls. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster My old dragoon, in place of fencing with him, would play at skittles, and that for no other wager but who should drink most beer at dinner: and so whoever lost the convent paid. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim What he saw then had led him to believe, he said, that the lot of one who preserves the boots of the public from mud is not all beer and skittles. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 On the other side of the prison was the larger yard where racket was played and games of skittles bowled beneath a shed. In Jail with Charles Dickens Murders fill them with joy, and, to them, accidents are beer and skittles. A Top-Floor Idyl When ready to begin they would call to the woman next door to send the "lad" to set up the skittles. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday There is, over the main door, some pitiful scratching in stone representing the all-seeing eye, the Masonic Grip, the sun, moon, and stars, and, perhaps, other skittles. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel “As to the first—skittles; as to the last—why do you think so?” John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game of skittles before noon. In Jail with Charles Dickens How simple it would be to put at the disposition of the men games of skittles, of bowls, of crocket, to organize in bad weather amusing and instructive entertainments with magic-lantern slides and dramatic spectacles. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 Every evening the party would gather in the garden to play skittles. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday This hill is shaped rather like two skittles, between which the road runs, and the wind, blowing through this narrow funnel, almost carried us off our camels. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 "From her accounts you'd think it was all skittles, but I'm sure there's a hitch somewhere!" mused Lorraine. The Head Girl at the Gables Now kingdoms might totter and reel, and convulsions play skittles with the map of Europe; but the iron unwritten law prevailed, that each boy severely fed his own rabbits. The Golden Age Horse-racing and coursing were included with every sort of athletic exercise from quoits and skittles to wrestling, cudgels and singlestick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Life isn't all beer and skittles,—but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. Tom Brown's School Day's The officers of the second division of the regiment were in the habit of going occasionally to the Auer, a lonely forest tavern, during the summer months, to play skittles. Jena or Sedan? Munich soon became an affair of beer, skittles, and music in company with the more careless spirits that gathered there that winter. Clark's Field “There has been no playing at skittles for me in either poetry, or life,” she said; “I never mistook pleasure for the final cause of poetry; nor leisure, for the hour of the poet.” The Brownings Their Life and Art “Who said life was all beer and skittles?” he demanded defiantly, and glared at Driscoll as though he had. The Missourian Afterwards Mrs. Brent proposed that they go to a German restaurant and have some beer and skittles; but this struck harshly on Bertha, who still palpitated with the passion of the play. Money Magic A Novel If Lois thought that traveling in the West was beer and skittles when hunted and scourged by yourself like that—well, she had better try it and see. The Side Of The Angels A Novel “One has struck the other, and the great elms have gone down like skittles.” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Oh, the business woman’s life isn’t all beer and skittles. The Gorgeous Girl Murgu�a, by the way, had come to hate no truth more soulfully than the palpable shortcoming of life in the matter of beer and skittles. The Missourian She will have, unconsciously, assimilated much, been diverted from the beer and skittles of her isolated development in a great new country. Another Sheaf We artists have to hold together or the business men will bowl us out like a lot of skittles, and where will the theatre be then?... Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists One will tell you he sees nothing in billiards or pool or golf or tennis, but will grow enthusiastic over the scientific possibilities of mumble-peg; you agree with him, only you substitute “skittles” for “mumble-peg.” The Fifth String The shrieks of the miserable beings excited no compassion; on the contrary, it afforded amusement to their executioners: so that games of skittles upon the same principle were played the whole length of this meadow. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches The men laughed and fell in for their first march, when they began to realise that a soldier's life was not all beer and skittles. Soldier Stories Most inns have a skittle alley, for skittles are still played in Germany by all classes. Home Life in Germany But from this it must not be supposed that "peace-time trench warfare" is all beer and skittles. Life in a Tank I don't want to make out that life is all beer and skittles for the tenement dwellers. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America In a flash the pair were upon us, and at the first blow two sailors went down like skittles. Merry-Garden and Other Stories He always took me by the hand to go and see them play skittles. Germinie Lacerteux You'll find none of the 'beer and skittles' of the country up here. Captain Desmond, V.C. Come, ye saints, whose skill in cavilling, Shock'd at skittles, cards, or dice, Thinks, except for Sunday travelling, Railway gaming is no vice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. You don't want everything to be high culture; you want beer and skittles and trashy delights as well as brilliant news reporting, avant-garde theater, and shocking sculpture. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Now that he is practically deprived of his skittles and such games, he has no amusement left except to drink, or play at pitch and toss on the quiet, a far worse pastime than skittles. The Toilers of the Field Here he found twelve grave old knights playing at skittles, at a well-levelled and fresh plot of grass. Folk-lore and Legends: German He immediately raises the question, Can we dissociate beer from skittles? G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Life is not, I assure you, all beer and skittles for the disembodied.” Humorous Ghost Stories And then they took their turn at skittles, and almost forgot their grievances, which must be explained to those who don't know the river at Oxford. Tom Brown at Oxford The game at skittles was a legitimate game—a fair and honest struggle of skill and strength. The Toilers of the Field They were going to eat lobsters and drink bottled beer and play skittles at Le Tac. Vixen, Volume III. "Though you're being shy with us now, after all we went through together in the summer, is simply skittles." New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune "It ain't all beer and skittles, as you say," Bill said. The Kangaroo Marines A door that does not fulfil its destiny might just as well be something else, skittles, or a pump, or—other things. Fernley House On our starboard, or northern side, appeared the long spit of sand at the end of which Hurst Castle stands, with two high red lighthouses like two giant skittles. A Yacht Voyage Round England "The road leads down to the inn at Le Tac, where Cockney excursionists go to eat lobsters, and play skittles," said Vixen, laughing at her lover. Vixen, Volume III. Dancing three times a week," says the advertisement for recruits, "rackets twice, and the rest of the time skittles, prisoners' base, and drill. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Something may be learned, we firmly believe, even from skittles and ping-pong. Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 She was denying herself skittles and beer, and putting up with tea and an old aunt, because she preferred the proprieties of life to its pleasures. Miss Mackenzie "Bless me, everything's beer and skittles with you just at present then!" The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Hucksters go about selling gin, aniseed, and fruits, and large booths offer meat, cider, punch, and skittles. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Love and marriage are not all beer and skittles for either party, but they are pitiable for the woman.' Despair's Last Journey So, in a way, for them as likes it, is skittles. Aunt Rachel But now the skittles and beer had come after her, as those delights will sometimes pursue the prudent youth who would fain avoid them. Miss Mackenzie Not that it was all beer and skittles even then. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 You are returning once more, my dear Louis, to your favourite occupation of knocking down skittles which you have set up yourself, and are trying to exercise your humorous spirit at my expense. French and Oriental Love in a Harem I’ve bullied you for having played skittles with my life, my career. The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts If there was a chance at all, I would say go at ’em, daddy, an’ bowl ’em down like skittles, but you know there’s no chance in your plan. The Crew of the Water Wagtail Her open fright is beer and skittles to him. April's Lady A Novel He had now three children of his own, and the necessity of eschewing skittles, and presiding over the sawpit, became urgent. Rattlin the Reefer For there were a good many small farmers of the class just above that of the a labourer in the neighbourhood, and some of them frequented Slam’s, and were partial to skittles. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys “And do they play skittles in the Aquarium?” asked the boy. The Willoughby Captains He will only laugh, and say it is all skittles. Seen and Unseen "Life isn't all beer and skittles to me, don't you know—and you'd be the kind of thing I haven't got, don't you know?" The Letter of the Contract In spite of the amusing comments of "The Fancies," the life of the Military Police was not all beer and skittles. A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919 The skittles lay here and there, as if the last player, weary of the game, had been tossing them about at haphazard. The Blue Pavilions As it was, the last thing any one went to Beamish’s for was to study fishes, the other attractions of the place—the skittles, bowls, and refreshment bars—being far more popular. The Willoughby Captains In one, full of the odour of Turkish cigarettes, the spoken English is above suspicion; in another, stinking of regimental shag, slang plays skittles with our language. The Red Horizon The first is a variant of "prisoner's base"; the other is a species of ninepins, or skittles, played with a group of uprights at which short, thick clubs are thrown. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers In the evening, however, I found the family gathered round a pole, with skittles at the foot of it. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke The whales dived below, fortunately; for one blow of a finback or sulphur bottom would have played skittles with the canoes. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark What do you say to a game of skittles at Beamish’s?” The Willoughby Captains He swam, rowed, walked, and could tire out any of his colleagues at swordplay or skittles. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters But then skittles is a game of low connections. Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth They were wondering how Italian skittles was played, and, though I had no idea, I volunteered to teach them. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke It is, they say, very bad—mostly beer and skittles. Leaves from a Field Note-Book In the first, there were several young Monks playing at skittles in the centre of the lawn. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three That was the most melancholy game at skittles I ever took part in. Successful Recitations The spot, which had been stained with his blood, was at this moment covered by skittles, and groups of stout lads were enjoying themselves in all directions. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two "It's just skittles to what it might be," she said consolingly. The Odds And Other Stories Activities portrayed include skating, bowling, spinning tops, fishing, rolling hoops, using a yo-yo, swinging, wrestling, skipping rope, shooting, playing skittles, riding a hobby horse, sledding, boxing, and playing musical instruments. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America Beer and skittles are all very well—an excellent institution, especially combined with the sort of admirable knowledge of horses and dogs, and the sort of seat in the saddle that you have, my friend. Jan A Dog and a Romance I found him in company with some of the masters, and with several young men either playing, or about to play, at skittles. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One It should be remembered that a unit of a rifle regiment is known as rifleman, not private; we like the term rifleman, and feel justly indignant when a wrong appellation plays skittles with our rank. The Amateur Army "My dear girl, don't you realize that this thing isn't all beer and skittles?" A Woman Named Smith He's learning that life isn't all beer and skittles, has felt the skinny talons of poverty on his elbow and has heard a truck-driver swear in the approved New York manner. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment No legal document could be treated in this way; and in like manner the Bible is one great whole, or else it is just—"skittles." The Law and the Word But the Free-Stater was not a bit impressed by my rhetoric, and simply said, "Oh, skittles!" With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Life isn't all beer and skittles with me, any more than it is with you. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages "I am not proposing to play a game of mental skittles," said the clerical author. Red Pottage Oh, no, life on The Road is not all beer and skittles. The Road Cease quarrelling, and come and play at skittles. 2nd Art. Cromwell Whenever the gipsies engaged in athletic games, he carried off the prize for running and leaping: he played admirably at skittles and at ball, and pitched the bar with singular strength and dexterity. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes It is a new idea suddenly presented to people who have never considered the subject of recreation at all, save in connection with skittles, so to speak. As We Are and As We May Be The relaxations of the humbler class, are fives, quoits, skittles, and ale. An History of Birmingham (1783) I don't think you are up to dominoes; you must go back to skittles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 I can do many things, from driving engines to playing skittles. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories He too has tricks; he is over-fond of playing with the chairs; in Malia one might say that he plays skittles with them. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" When a loud, joyful, and steeplechasing Lord, in the pursuit of pleasure and distant wars, dons the golden cords for a season, the world understands that this is masquerading, skittles, and a joke. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series The first part of the plot was, to the most skilful criminal 'impersonator' in the States, mere skittles. Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Thimbles, skittles, and cards were left in their wrappings, and testified that the great event of the day absorbed all attention. The Moon-Voyage "What this could be," he remarked, "was past comprehension, unless it were ghosts playing at skittles with their own dead bones." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 489, May 14, 1831 But it isn't all beer and skittles, and I let 'em know it, too. The Regent Life throbbed around him in an aurora of skittles. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series To use the words of a manuscript, preserved in the archives of the cathedral, they played at skittles on the roof of the church, and the bells were kept continually ringing. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 It may not do dear Anne much good, but I guess it can't do her much harm anyway, and it was beer and skittles to me. The Knave of Diamonds The President says, "he doesn't know anything about that," and looks a little surprised, as if I had proposed a game of skittles. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 But we do take it hard, that the jovial Luther, in the midst of his ale and skittles, should have deliberately censured Juvenal's mens sana in corpore sano, as a pagan maxim! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Poetry has been to me as serious a thing as life itself,--and life has been a very serious thing; there has been no playing at skittles for me in either. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous He runs like a buck, leaps like a wild goat, and plays at skittles like a wizard. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook He looked with an indifferent eye, alike on skittles, cards, and dice, thinking only of the locksmith's daughter, and the base degenerate days on which he had fallen. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles, before noon. David Copperfield The yard was well stocked, and better than all, was provided with a complete set of skittles, so our boys soon turned the detention into a frolic. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates Here they work, read, play at skittles, and other games; and when the weather does not admit of their taking exercise out of doors, pass the day together. American Notes True it is that life is not altogether labor and lees—there's some skittles and beer; but the most of us get more shadow than shunshine, more cholera-morbus than cream. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 A vast deal of gambling still goes on with skittles all over the country. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) If you was to take to something, sir,' said Mrs. Crupp, 'if you was to take to skittles, now, which is healthy, you might find it divert your mind, and do you good.' David Copperfield One will tell you he sees nothing in billiards or pool or golf or tennis, but will grow enthusiastic over the scientific possibilities of mumble-peg; you agree with him, only you substitute "skittles" for "mumble-peg." The Fifth String The sanitary laws require putting into operation quite as much as the laws against public-house lotteries and skittles.' The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) It had freely been noted for him that he might be received as a dog among skittles, but that was on the basis of the old quantity. The Ambassadors Billiards has not as yet been placed, like skittles and bowls, under the interdict of the police authorities, and it is difficult to see how they could venture upon so tremendous an experiment. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) If we win our land cases, there's your new freight rates to be applied, and then all is beer and skittles. The Octopus : A story of California But he was a master of skittles and of dominoes. Sons and Lovers Life not having been all beer and skittles to him, he knew that Joe was suffering, and was marvelously patient with him. K No, it was not all beer and skittles. Peter Ibbetson Amidst such abuses of the game, it can scarcely surprise us that the police have been recently directed to prohibit all playing at skittles and bowls. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) These with one or two others were enough for converse and for jollity; and there were merry evenings, with wine and talk, and cards and skittles and nonsense. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller He took a challenge from a Newark man, on skittles. Sons and Lovers It is not all beer and skittles in a newspaper office, which is a good thing, for I don't like beer, and I don't know what skittles is or are. Jennie Baxter, Journalist That it should not be all beer and skittles with us, and therefore apt to pall, my cousins and I had to work pretty hard. Peter Ibbetson "The pale rascal means to make this a game of skittles," he thought to himself. The Forest Lovers The men laughed and fell in for their first march when they began to realize that a soldier's life was not all beer and skittles. Indian Tales Had I cared to risk such a calamity, I might have taught him to play skittles…. Alone Hang me! if I didn't play at skittles with' em, and I was in that humour, Harkaway, when you can't miss. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece These not being familiar military words of command, the men stuck there like skittles. The Yeoman Adventurer Yet, if we have not, I for one, though of a literary turn, would sooner spend my leisure playing skittles with boors than in reading sonorous lies in stout volumes. Obiter Dicta Once on that slope, we could pretty well play skittles with the sangars below, as we could even now see clearly into them. With Kelly to Chitral Out-of-doors there were bullocks roasted whole, barrels of cider and butts of ale set constantly flowing, with dancing, cricket, and Devonshire skittles, and other country games and comforts for the amusement of the peasantry. Tales for Young and Old "I'm not proficient enough in skittles to appreciate the feat," he answered. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Mr. Howard, it was anything but beer and skittles for me then. At Love's Cost But it is not to be concluded that it is all beer and skittles for Eve. Mobilizing Woman-Power Ninepins or skittles is a number game, and one can score by using number groups, or by fetching counters, shells, beads, etc., as reminders. The Child under Eight Life in Australia isn't all beer and skittles. The Happy Adventurers Vautrin To spit in your face; to bowl over your lives like a row of skittles. Vautrin "I do not suppose that you, as publishers, can appreciate the fact that an author may have a soul above skittles," said I indignantly. A Fool and His Money "Now the 'free, wild life' is a round of strife, And of ceaseless hunger and fear; And the life in the wild of the animal child Is not all skittles and beer." The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations I don't know what skittles are, but I know what tea is. Kent Knowles: Quahaug The proportion of fighting in the battle of life outweighs the "beer and skittles"; as does the interest. The Courage of the Commonplace Near the tent, on a cleared space, around the battery itself, we had our games of skittles, or chushki. Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian I rammed in, windmillin' all round and knocking 'em down like skittles. Tales of Chinatown To tip all nine; to knock down all the nine pins at once, at the game of bows or skittles: tipping, at these gaines, is slightly touching the tops of the pins with the bowl. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Still in North Germany does the peasant say of thunder, that the angels are playing skittles aloft, and of the snow, that they are shaking up the feather-beds in heaven. The Book of Were-Wolves Oh, Mac's getting along," he shouted; "struck him on a dry stage; seemed a bit light-headed; said dry stages weren't all beer and skittles—queer idea. We of the Never-Never To again quote "Trilby," tramping "is not all beer and skittles." A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country But nowadays, as befitted a laborious rural population, they were spending their morning in the wine-shops of the town, gambling, drinking, or playing skittles. South Wind They'll give you plenty to eat, and a can of beer a day, and a bit of bacca—and they'll provide dominoes and skittles for you to play with. Touch and Go There was no "small" sport or game which Monsieur Profond had not played at too, it seemed, from skittles to harpon-fishing, and worn out every one. To Let The foundry lies hidden in the depths between, the tops of its chimneys sprouting like huge skittles into the middle distance. Major Barbara The men on the cart went flying like skittles. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million By the time we get home, we shall forget the blood and the dog-biscuit, and only remember the skittles and beer. On the Firing Line "They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of skittles," said he in conclusion. War and Peace It seemed to him that these boulders had formerly served for the games of bacchanalian Titans, who, after having used them as skittles or jack-stones, had ended by hurling them at one another's heads. Samuel Brohl and Company The men laughed and fell in for their first march, when they began to realise that a soldier's life is not all beer and skittles. Soldiers Three - Part 2 It means that he is strong enough—but you think it skittles, Colonel Creighton—to make anyone do anything he wants. Kim They next add one or two more skittles and say, for instance: "Three skittles and two skittles are five skittles." The Unknown Guest There would have been archery, skittles, dancing—social amusements in which they would have partaken as members of a conscious community. Crome Yellow Yes, you can purchase such culture as this, and pretty cheaply, but a passion for skittles would be of more service to you, and bring you more genuine enjoyment. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow A cigarette-case, if you like, of the best birchwood,... balls for croquet, skittles of the most foreign pattern I can turn.... The Schoolmistress, and other stories Though not an optimist in the absurd sense of maintaining that life is all beer and skittles, he did really seem to maintain that beer and skittles are the most serious part of it. Manalive Hans was brought to a table on which were placed first one, then two, then several small skittles. The Unknown Guest Silence and submission! or I shall join your game and upset the skittles. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. Tom Brown's School Days He would play croquet and skittles with her, and would tell her wonderful things. The Schoolmistress, and other stories At the appointed hour arrives the coroner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and who is received with a salute of skittles from the good dry skittle-ground attached to the Sol's Arms. Bleak House Before long, the skittles were replaced by figures written on a blackboard. The Unknown Guest |
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