"Skittles" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... play if any of you are ready to pay my losses and take my winnings; I am tired of being as good as an annuity to you all,' for that is what you have been for the last ten years. Why, it would be cheaper for you to send home to England for skittles, and get a ground ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty
... got to think of stoves and roofs and rats and such, or there'd be no living in any old house," I reminded her, practically. "My dear girl, don't you realize that this thing isn't all beer and skittles?" ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... your charge," said Bob very sagely. "I'm going to make it lift the rock, and drop it down over the side, and then away it'll go and sweep a lot of those big bits with it, just as if they were skittles, and they'll all go down like a big clatter stream to ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... as long as I decently could, but at last, in a lapse of good-nature, I consented to masquerade as a book, only I warned them that it would take some time to carry out. They waited for the best part of forty minutes, while I went and played wineglass skittles with the page-boy in the pantry; you play it with a champagne cork, you know, and the one who knocks down the most glasses without breaking them wins. I won, with four unbroken out of seven; I think William suffered from over-anxiousness. They were rather mad in the drawing-room at my not having ...
— Reginald • Saki
... time, the gun started to boom. The beast, then, urshed and gone away from the village. On the knoll a german section had just taken place. The bull fell amongst, his horns forward, fool of rage. He knocked down the Germans like skittles." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 • Various
... as serious a thing as life itself. "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 ...
— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting
... whose skill in cavilling, Shock'd at skittles, cards, or dice, Thinks, except for Sunday travelling, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... a pill,' said Spurstow, who had been watching Hummil's white face narrowly. 'Take a pill, and don't be an ass. That sort of talk is skittles. Anyhow, suicide is shirking your work. If I were Job ten times over, I should be so interested in what was going to happen next that I'd ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... shortly after Dave had gone on a visit to the tenant of the belted Earl, Uncle Mo having gone away for an hour, to spend it in the parlour of The Rising Sun, a truly respectable house where there were Skittles, and Knurr and Spell. He might, you see, be more than an hour: there was ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan |
