Whereupon Madame Roquet filled her own glass and mine, and Madame Robineau, less indulgent to her husband than herself, followed our example.
A ball may roquet another ball twice between two consecutive steps, but the second roquet does not entitle the player to a continuance of play.
A ball having made roquet and declined the croquet, may continue its play either from the position to which it has rolled after the roquet, or from the side of the roqueted ball.
A ball makes Roquet on another ball when proceeding from a blow of the mallet it comes in contact with it either directly or by rebounding from a fixed obstacle in the ground or from another ball.
Making a point is running one or more bridges, striking the turning-post in order, or performing the roquet (except on a booby, or on a ball the second time in one tour without making an intervening step.
Some writers define the Roquet as the contact of the playing ball with another ball under such circumstances as to constitute a point.
Roquet does not entitle a booby to a continuance of play.
A player is allowed but one extra stroke, even though he make roquet and run one or more bridges at one stroke.
A roquet made upon, or by, a booby does not entitle the player to an extra stroke; neither can a booby croquet or be croqueted.
A ball making Roquet on two or more balls by the same blow of the mallet.
Roquet upon a ball the second time during a tour does not entitle him to a continuance of play.
For instance, a ball makes roquetupon another ball, and accidentally glances through its own bridge.
If after a roquet the playing ball be taken up or moved from its place, it must continue its tour from the side of the roqueted ball.
If he runs it his tour still continues, and he may play for the next bridge, or roquet the other ball again, which he may previously have croqueted, into the proper position.
A ball makesroquet and runs a bridge at the same shot.
The first hit was not a roquet if really declined.
It is not a roquet unless they remain in contact after passing through the bridge.
A blow by which a step on the round or a roquet is made, thereby entitling the player to continuance of tour--that is, to another blow.
A ball already in contact with another ball does not roquet unless it move it perceptibly.
After roquetting a ball to roquet it again during the same tour, a right acquired only by making a step on the round.
Not on that tour; for if he continues his tour, the second hit must have been a roquet; the roquet on the first blow must have been declined; therefore the bridge could not have been declined.
Or, if the bridge was declined, the first hit was a roquet and the second no point; therefore his tour is at an end.
A roquet-croquet is precisely like a roquetwhen the balls are in contact.
A player (rover) who pegs out a rover by a roquetloses the remainder of his turn because a rover when pegged out is out of the game and croquet cannot be taken from it.
When a player roquets two balls simultaneously, he may choose from which of them he will take croquet; another roquet will be required before he can take croquet from the other ball.
No point or roquet can be made by a ball which is in hand.
If the points are equal the first roquet decides the contest.
If at the commencement of a turn the striker's ball be found touching another, roquet is deemed to be made, and croquet must be taken at once, but if it be found touching two balls the striker can take croquet of which ball he chooses.
The "rush" is a roquet sending the ball hit in some desired direction.
Should a ball, in making its hoop, roquet another that lies beyond the hoop, and then pass through, the hoop counts as well as the roquet.
Should any part of the ball that is roqueted be lying on the playing side of the hoop, the roquet counts, but not the hoop.
If a player make a foul stroke he loses the remainder of his turn, and any point or roquetmade by such stroke does not count.
A player, when his turn comes round, may roquet each ball once before making a point, and may do this again after each point made.
The striker's ball, when so placed and struck is at once in play, and can roquet any other ball in play or be roqueted whether it has made the first hoop or not.
But another roquet will be required before he can take croquet from one of the other balls.
We have them safely enough," declared Roquet with a strong accent of the Midi.
It is important always to leave the next player in such a position that he will be unable to score a point or roquet a ball; a break, however profitable, which does not end by doing this is often fatal.
Blue is then "in," with a certain roquet and the choice of laying for red or going for an immediate break himself.
After taking croquet the striker is entitled to another stroke, with which he may score another point, or roquet another ball not previously roqueted in the same turn since a point was scored, or he may play for safety.
If he succeeds in scoring a point, he is entitled (as in billiards) to another stroke; he may then either attempt to score another point, or he may roquet a ball.
To "rush" a ball is to roquet it hard so that it proceeds for a considerable distance in a desired direction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roquet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
