With so much level ground available, a tennis court had been laid out, and also a croquet ground, and the boys and girls enjoyed these games immensely.
I'm with you," answered Fred, who had been playing a game of croquet with May and some of the others.
Lawn-tennis and croquet are regarded as the amusements of the mild and the middle-aged; the ardour of girlhood requires hockey and golf.
Here and there a nurse with a baby in her arms haunts the shade, or a parcel of older children play lawn-tennis or croquet to an accompaniment of chaff from envious street-boys.
In the following year the "All England Croquet Club" determined to include the name of the new game in its title, and it became known as the "All England Croquet and Lawn-Tennis Club.
The lawn should be the size that is usually allotted to a full size Croquet lawn.
In 1875 lawn-tennis took up its headquarters at Wimbledon, being admitted to form part of the "All England Croquet Club" there.
Diane went back with her to the deserted Westfall house in St. Augustine, with the green mould and the cobwebs and cranky spiders and the croquet set in the cellar.
Official Rules of the Game as adopted by the National Croquet Association.
So Tom went to Grassy Spring in a frame of mind not the most amiable; and when croquet was proposed, he sneered at it as something quite too passe, citing lawn tennis as the only decent outdoor amusement.
They were still out on the lawn, and Henry had made a suggestion that they should all play golf-croquet when Rutley came to clear the table.
The truth of the matter was that it was Lawrence who had murdered Alfred Inglethorp with a croquet mallet.
The former asked him about the garden and the croquet ground, while Philip addressed himself to Diana, who wore the gray gown with a rose at the belt, although she had felt she could never put it on again.
Hold on, Barney, don't go too fast; it's the kind of croquet you play with an alpenstock in one hand and a mallet in the other.
Mr. Barrison makes fun of ourcroquet ground because it is rough.
I know that, but I wondered if she could give half an hour to playing a game of croquet with Bert Gayne.
I can see that Kelly will be fruit for you, Veronica, on that croquet ground," said Philip.
No, the croquet must be shifted to the right; it gives more margin," she was saying.
The tennis and croquetlawns lay at the back of the house, brick walls, covered in part with fruit trees, surrounded the whole place.
He had the choice between eggs and bacon and sausages, he chose the former and whilst waiting, attracted by the pleasant summery sound of croquet balls knocking together, he looked out of the window.
They play tennis andcroquet a good deal in the summer, sir.
I hope the garden-party at the Nevilles was a great success, and that the High Towers croquet pair distinguished themselves.
Mr. Francis Barold did not return to London; and, strange to say, Lucia was seen again and again playing croquet with Octavia Bassett, and was even known to spend evenings with her.
I want you to ask her to let Lucia Gaston come and playcroquet with us on Tuesday.
And have you begun croquet yet this year, Mr. Holroyd?
Yes, what games ofcroquet you will have, and what music.
Ellis this morning had moved several seats out of the summer-house on to the grass, and the "Croquet set No.
Our tastes agree in so many things, too--music and croquet and so on.
Immediately the result seemed to be that Mrs. Hancock would have Edith's companionship at lunch and in her drives, and that he could play croquet next door.
All the croquet parties, the boating, fishing, riding.
Didn’t you know the Squire had set up half a dozen croquet sets, and we’re to be prompt at six o’clock?
At that particular moment the croquet players finished their game, which had been going on without a symptom of finality during the whole afternoon.
There are also tennis courts and a croquet and badminton grounds round the Club, and on the open plain golf links, a polo ground, and a cricket ground.
There are also golf links, two polo grounds, a cricket ground, four tennis courts, and two croquet grounds.
His soul yearns for a ball of some kind whether it be a polo ball, a cricket ball, a tennis ball, a golf ball, or even a croquet ball.
Even with the baser and less heroic ball games, like croquet and billiards, where more than one ball is used at a time, action inimical to the interests of the opponent's ball is permitted and encouraged.
And do you remember how your father scolded Sally for carrying me round the garden on her back, and she used to wake me up in the mornings by rolling croquet balls along the floor into my room.
When I was eighteen I was very much in love with a young fellow who used to come to play croquet at our place.
At flower shows, galas, croquet parties, they challenged comparison with all who were not confessedly of the Dunfield elite.
I suppose I shall have to give a croquet party, and have some of the young fellows, then you'll come fast enough.
Not thinking what she was doing, Dora took up a croquet mallet which had been left on the bench, and began slowly to screw it into the ground.
The amusements are boating and fishing parties of longer or shorter duration, rides and walks along the shore, or croquet on a fine, shady croquet-ground in a live-oak grove back of the house.
We ourselves have been having a quiet game ofcroquet out under the orange-trees, playing till we could see the wickets no longer.
Now put it out of your mind, and let's talk about the croquet party to-morrow at Grace Meredith's.
We're going to get up a croquet club, and we want you to be a member.
Patty was considered a good croquet player in America, but in England the rules of the game, as well as the implements, were so different that it seriously impeded her progress.
He was fairly to the point of deciding to go back and look at the Flobert Rifle, in the shop window, when a group of children ran out from the wide office doors to the croquet court at the side.
Celia, between them, looked down, tapping her croquet ball with the tip of her shoe.
The autumn held fine and mild, and Mary, who had been lunching at the Abbey, was playing croquet with Morris upon the side lawn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "croquet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
