"Shinny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in diameter. Some of them are artistically made, with heads of bone and horn, so that it is remarkable to what a distance they may be made to slide over the ground. In the feminine game of ball, which is something like "shinny," the ball is driven with curved sticks between two goals. It is played with from two or three to a hundred on a side, and a game between two bands or villages ...
— Indian Child Life • Charles A. Eastman
... a dozen men and three boys," said she, "and the boys are the worst by a heap sight. Look at that, will you," holding up a darn with a bit of stocking attached. "That hole was made playing shinny." ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green
... hoping bitter platter stopper hopping diner shiny tiny doted dinner shinny tinny dotted cuter hater poker offer cutter hated paper wider holy hatter taper spider holly riding favor diver bony ridding fever gallon bonny biting clover racer bogy bitting over cider boggy caning halo label Mary canning ...
— The Beacon Second Reader • James H. Fassett
... up the contents of Keren's bureau drawers with a shinny stick, and when I asked what she was doing, she replied without the least embarrassment, that she was trying to teach Keren to be less exact; that Mrs. Trent had asked her ...
— Just Patty • Jean Webster
... get the notion in his head we're scared about it," he muttered; "but all the same I think we'd better shinny on our own side, ...
— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne |
