They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries.
I'd like to play a few more games at billiardswith him.
With the men at the Club or the mess room, he was well enough; and could ride, bet, smoke, or play at billiards with the boldest of them.
I've lost a hundred and forty to Crawley at cards and billiards since I've been down here.
I believe George was playing billiards with Captain Cannon in Swallow Street at the time when Amelia was asking Captain Dobbin about him; for George was a jolly sociable fellow, and excellent in all games of skill.
No billiards to-day, Crawley, my boy; yesterday was enough.
We celebrated his seventy-first birthday by playing billiardsall day.
If Mr. Rogers will take to dailybilliards he can do without the doctors & the massageur, I think.
We hurried through the mail in the morning and the telephone calls; then, while I answered such letters as required attention, he dictated for an hour or so to Miss Hobby, after which, billiards for the rest of the day and evening.
Adolphe and he played billiards against my desire, as if he were not bête enough already," he said in an undertone.
Or he will seek to lead you into some other transaction in horse-flesh, or have you into the house to play billiards and remain to dinner and cards all night, and there is always high play at Newton.
In other games that may be compared with golf, the player has his eye on the object at the moment of striking; in billiards the very last glance is given at the object ball, and the eye is on it at the moment the stroke is made.
He used to play billiards with me by the month for his liver, and then call me idle for playing with him.
I suppose that if I had given up billiards he would have been impressed with the idea that I was about to reform.
He was now installed as billiards marker and general factotum at the Crown and Cushion; in fact he had already come to occupy quite a place at court.
The day before yesterday I beat you three times running at billiards at Gambrinus'.
They had played a game of billiards and began drinking tea.
I say, if none of you are goin' to be more amusin' than this, you may as well go back to your billiards again.
Why, you don't mean to say you've torn yourselves away from your beloved billiards already?
When I got back, Piero was playing billiards with his servant.
And now--he will play billiards with Toniello to pass the time, and he is longing for his petits theatres.
Toniello is allowed to play billiards with him sometimes.
From that day a great change took place in me: companions, rioting, and billiards disappeared as by enchantment from my life.
In the first place he had sole command of the unit and was not worried by any orders from either Brigade or Division.
They were, however, little better off than those who were stowed away in the tunnels of Marshall Walk, where the atmosphere reduced the occupants, packed in tight, to a state of coma.
The best introduction to an account ofBilliards will be a brief explanation of the implements of the game and the terms used in connection with it.
For such strokes as these the instructions given for securing winning hazards at Billiards may be studied with advantage.
There are thousands of men who have played Billiards all their lives, but are still very poor players, because in learning to play they never studied position.
On some pretense the young hypocrite excused himself from playing a game of billiards as he had at first proposed, and induced Fred to follow him into the street, knowing it was not safe for him to remain longer in the heated saloon.
You have owed me for two months, and now here is another game of billiardsto charge.
I guess I can beat you atbilliards after taking this.
Billiards is a fascinating game, and, from the very fact of its fascination, it is extremely dangerous for boys.
If this connection between the two Ninevehs be accepted, the question suggests itself whether, in time, Ninâ did not become merely another form of Ishtar.
I was not in a saloon, and never saw a game of billiards in my life.
My diversion took the form of a game of billiards in a cafe, which was not, I must admit, one of the most fashionable cafes in the city.
My skill at billiards was not, in those days, inconsiderable.
Joe Norris used to say that a slight palsy he had in one hand was worth twelve hundred a year to him at billiards alone.
So after lunch, at which Mr. Wurley drank the better part of a bottle of old sherry to steady his nerves, they returned again to billiards and Hudson's regalias.
So he yielded easily enough, and they went to billiards in a fine room opening out of the hall; and Tom, who was very fond of the game, soon forgot everything in the pleasure of playing on such a table.
I'm dog-tired of driving and doing the High Street, and playing cards and billiards all day, and our boat is likely to be head of the river, I think.
It is like a dreadful dream--playing billiards last night, and now--dead!
He blustered and hectored as of old--gave his days to field sports--his evenings for the most part to billiards and tobacco.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "billiards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
