Ninepins With a box of ninepins very much the same game can be played.
In wet weather, in the hall, a box of largeninepins is invaluable.
He made the best toys, flew kites when there really seemed no breeze to lift them from the ground, and bowled over a larger number of ninepins than the cleverest of them all.
You have done more than your share, I should say," the Major said; "for they went down likeninepins before you.
Father Ninepins told her to bring me here," said Rosalie.
Father Ninepins told me to come to you," said Rosalie.
She gave all her attention to the task, but every now and again old Ninepins called after her: "Now, don't play on the way.
Sir Geoffry played a game at ninepins with him on the lawn--which set of ninepins had been his own when a child, and had been lying by ever since.
Thus, the fact predominates that cards, dice and ninepins were generally sources of amusement--for stakes.
Playing ninepins at the ordinary was part of the gentleman's day, when he came to the centers in the Colony, where these public places were established in numbers, after the middle of the century.
And in a moment the falling of the ninepins was heard and the attendant only confirmed what scarcely needed confirmation.
The people of Lourdes were conquered and slain, and their ghastly, bloody heads served the triumphant Cagots for balls to play at ninepins with!
The Ninepins are getting very difficult to manage; have to put them down as delicately as possible; but I am afraid, poor fellows, they are dreadfully upset.
The Ninepins do not stagger when I smile at them now; the Dice-box gapes open-mouthed at my greeting.
Snubbed him, as one of the Ninepins told me he was considered "a bit of a bounder.
Thus for months they had played the double game of ninepins and of a ghostly drama!
Ninepins amuse me greatly, but at present I should like to play at spinning a top, and, if thou dost consent, thou shalt be the top.
Well, imagine some of the greatest men in France as these ninepins and then this Monsieur Caratal was the ball which could be seen coming from far away.
Then there comes the ball from far away and pop, pop, pop--there are your ninepins on the floor.
You have seen a group of ninepins standing, all so rigid, and prim, and unbending.
Surely we aren't such ninepins as old Stainsby, Abercromby Royle, Guy Berridge and all that lot?
Tom Richardson, the last man in for England, made sixty-two, while some who shall be nameless went down like ninepins in the van.
My Lord and we at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was very pretty sport.
In the afternoon I played at ninepinswith Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett against him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ninepins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
