Then he thought that he must take out a battledore and shuttlecock and play with it, or what he proposed doing would be suspected.
Come down with me into the garden, we will have a game of battledore and shuttlecock on the lawn, the fresh air will do you good.
After dinner Norman appeared to have recovered his spirits, and Fanny took him out to play battledore and shuttlecock.
I must have a game at battledoreand shuttlecock, I can play that alone.
I see that he has gone away from the lawn and has left the battledore on the grass.
As she found that Norman was not disposed to garden, she invited him to have a game of battledore and shuttlecock on the lawn.
We must have another game of battledore and shuttlecock on the lawn after dinner," said Fanny, "you seem to like that, and on one side it will be pleasant and shady.
The printed cardboard battledore was a successor of the hornbook.
There are Greek drawings extant representing a game almost identical with battledore and shuttlecock, and it has been popular in China, Japan, India and Siam for at least 2000 years.
The Maharajah of Battledore told me that he was one of your most favourite painters.
My cousin the Maharajah of Battledore has given me several introductions.
Battledore and Shuttlecock "Battledore and Shuttlecock" is equally good for one player or for two.
I can't miss seeing her to-night at Battledore House.
She had nobattledore light enough to return an airy shuttlecock.
The two kept up a battledore and shuttlecock of agitated conversation.
I am afraid you think me very childish," I stammered, for I remembered that game of battledore and shuttlecock, and how excited I had been when I had achieved two hundred.
I was only seventeen, in spite of my pronounce features, and I could still enter into the delights of a good drawn battle of battledore and shuttlecock.
Toyo has a drum, some lovely books and a new game of battledore and shuttlecock, which is the game of all games to be played at New Year's.
The shuttlecock is a large gilded seed with feathers stuck all around it; the battledore is a bat, flat on one side to strike with, while the other side has a raised figure of a beautiful dancing-girl.
She was asked by her mother one day whether she had not played battledore and shuttlecock before breakfast.
Because the percussion of the shuttlecock upon the parchment of the battledore causes it to vibrate, and the vibrations are imparted to the air.
Why does the exercise, afforded by playing battledore and shuttlecock, make us feel warm?
The children have a very good time, spinning tops, flying kites, and playing battledore and shuttlecock.
The older people make gifts of dwarf trees, while the children give one another dolls and kites, and games of battledore and shuttlecock, which one sees both old and young playing in the streets.
No sound of merriment was now to be heard--no battledore and shuttlecock--no ball, no marbles.
In my own difficulty, I felt almost as perplexed as the Honorable East India Company, when I found that no battledore was to be had; for no town was near at hand.
There is no battledorelong enough to reach him in either way.
It was an exercise she loved, as indeed she loved all out-of-door exercises, from riding with hawks and hounds to battledore and shuttlecock.
They played battledore and shuttlecock in the picture-gallery, and my lady laughed when her volant struck some reverend judge or venerable bishop a rap on the nose.
No hour of the day but offered some variety of recreation, from battledore and shuttlecock in the plaisance to long days with the hounds or the hawks.
Is the battledore for effect, or are you going to play a game with it?
I am going to play at battledore and shuttlecock with the boys in the dining-room.
To carry out the character, she held a battledoreand shuttlecock in her hand.
She held it with one hand, as she poised herbattledore with the other.
Dulce shall keep her roses, and we will have battledore and shuttlecock every evening; but, if I have to keep the key of the work-room in my pocket, you and Dulce shall never enter it after tea.
Clara's clumsy gestures and Susie's short-sighted attempts, he was obliged to confess that battledore and shuttlecock wore a different aspect now.
I propose we go out in the garden and have a game of battledore and shuttlecock;" for this had been a winter pastime with them at the cottage.
His sisters played battledoreand shuttlecock in the school-room sometimes, or out in the passages on a winter's afternoon.
Across her knee, under her clasped hands, lay a light racket, for she had strayed this way frombattledore and shuttlecock and the sprightly company of maids of honor and gentlemen pensioners engaged thereat.
She brandished the battledore as though to ward off the approaching Lord Simon, and repeated in a trembling voice: "Lord Simon de Lacey--Duke of Aberfalden.
We are anxious to play battledoreand shuttlecock madly.
Janet and I, side by side with the captain and Julia, carried on the game of battledore and shuttlecock, in a match to see whether the unmarried could keep the shuttle flying as long as the married, with varying fortunes.
Beginning with the New Year there came the great game with the girls ofbattledore and shuttlecock.
Colonel Stubbs was there acting as best man to Hamel, while Lord John Battledore performed the same service for Captain Batsby.
But now Tom Shuttlecock and Lord John Battledore were distasteful to him,--as would he be to them.
There were Tom Shuttlecock and Lord John Battledore at the club.
Battledore had reminded him that there was "a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
