| 单词 | spillikins |
| 例句 | And on the floor nearby is a heap of maulsticks arranged like spillikins, or pick-up sticks – remove one and the whole circle would be disturbed. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z “It’s all in spillikins in the back garden.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) So there was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas Then on another evening we might encourage the men to play progressive games like draughts, halma, picture lotto, spillikins, ping-pong, and beggar-my-neighbour. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favourable openings. Robert Elsmere Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record One writer compares the structure to a bundle of spillikins. A Bird Calendar for Northern India These rocks, these blocks, these peaks, these streaks, these cones, these cracks, these ramparts, these escarpments,—what are they but a set of spillikins, though I acknowledge on a grand scale? All Around the Moon I throw in this explanation of "spillikins" to fill up a somewhat long and painful pause during which Cai and 'Bias without speech slowly questioned one another. Hocken and Hunken Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it vigorously, though with occasional qualms as to the lawfulness of the process. Robert Elsmere Weymouth, a hundred and eighty years ago, was about as symmetrical as a game of spillikins in confusion. The Man Who Laughs Leap frog is not too heavy for me and spillikins not too light. Mr. Scarborough's Family All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favorable openings. Robert Elsmere And anon, when his victim had steeled himself against this method, he could extract another five-pound note from his little hoard with the delicacy of one playing spillikins. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it viciously, though with occasional qualms as to the lawfulness of the process. Robert Elsmere |
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