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...eace in this world have fallen to my share, leave me alone. Let me play at quoits with cyclonic gales, flinging the discs of spinning cloud and whirli... ... ever upon both its edges; and he may well go on playing his royal game of quoits with hurri- canes, tossing them over from the continent of repub- li...

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...pebbles like skin in colour are strewn on the beach; * and there are their quoits and their wondrous armour; and there is the Argoan harbour called af... ...n mainland. And the heroes she found by the ship taking their pastime with quoits and shooting of arrows; and she drew near and just touched the hand ...

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...then? FALSTAFF: Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a’ plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel, and drinks off candles’ ends for f...

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...l. Because their Legges are both of a bignesse: and 1269 hee playes at Quoits well, and eates Conger and Fennell, 1270 and drinkes off Candles...

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...ppy; she was afraid her hat was on one side, but she was excited. He threw quoits on a table, and won for her two large, pale-blue hat-pins. And then,...

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...Sikh devotee in the blue checked clothes of his faith, with polished steel quoits glistening on the cone of his tall blue turban, stalked past, return...

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... deadlier than ‘em all: Each man an Ascapart, 176 of strength to toss For quoits, both T emple-bar and Charing-cross. Scared at the grisly forms, I s...

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...Joy, in London. T. J. is a car penter, six foot four in height, and plays quoits well. He lives in Chelsea, London, by the church. I got leave from t...

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... son, shepherd of the host; and his folk along the sea shore sported with quoits and with casting of javelins and archery; and the horses each beside...

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...dishly trifling at gathering and se- lecting cockle shells, and playing at quoits, [This game, as the “Dictionnaire de T revoux” describes it, is one ...

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...d for confirmation of it, he alleges an inscription upon one of the copper quoits used in those sports, upon which the name of Lycurgus continued unef... ...s and signals of human art and concert, as, for instance, the clashings of quoits, fire- beacons, and the shadows on sun-dials, every one of which thi...

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...mstances. But, Lord, there’s no dullness at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, company rou... ...ng anxiety about her pattens, with which she played innumer- able games at quoits on Mr Pecksniff’s legs. It was not until they were close upon the ho...

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...y like a beetle’s, she had rows of round heavy col- lars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. He remembered her: her astonishing cultured elegance, ...

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... years; but he is a century old in mischief and villany. He was playing at quoits the other day in the court; a gentleman—a decent-looking per- son en...

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... to me, But I can’t drop it if I tried! I see the sergeants pitchin’ quoits, I ‘ear the women laugh an’ talk, I spy upon the quarter-deck The ...

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...plays bats ball here, if dhat’s what you mean. BROADBENT. Well, let us say quoits. I saw two men, I think, last night—but after all, these are questio...

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...f money, though there was no food), some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles. The general trend of the campaign was rarely spoken of...

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... to me, But I can’t drop it if I tried! I see the sergeants pitchin’ quoits, I ‘ear the women laugh an’ talk, I spy upon the quarter-deck The ...

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...en play- 271 Taras Bulba & Other Tales ing at “svaika,” a game resembling quoits, are always to be seen. But on the arrival of the cavalry regiment e...

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...newspaper, slowly pronouncing and delivering the words like a man pitching quoits. Often she hurried him on, giving him a phrase in anticipation. And ...

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... the twigs. At St. Cosme, I come to adore thee. At the quoits. At I’m for that. At ...

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...f money, though there was no food), some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles. The general trend of the campaign was rarely spoken of...