So we gets to skittles quite contented, and I puts my purse back in my jacket pocket, and gives it to Blacke to hold.
Illustration] Skittles is played in a manner somewhat similar to the preceding game, but the number of pins is only four.
Four balls are used, two being white, one red, and one blue; and five skittles are placed in the centre of the table.
The points are made by knocking down the skittles, each of which counts as many points as its number, and by whatever ball these skittles are knocked down they always count.
It is very difficult to make this throw successfully, and many players prefer driving down the first and third skittles with a straightforward shoot, and then making their second ball spring across from the second to the fourth.
The game at skittles was a legitimate game--a fair and honest struggle of skill and strength.
Now that he is practically deprived of his skittles and such games, he has no amusement left except to drink, or play at pitch and toss on the quiet, a far worse pastime than skittles.
He was quicker in his movements than Skittles had ever been, and the latter's quickest days were long since done.
The man with the pail thus addressed as Skittles grinned at Paxton as he answered.
That was the most melancholy game at skittles I ever took part in.
But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game of skittles before noon.
On the other side of the prison was the larger yard where racket was played and games of skittles bowled beneath a shed.
Debtors were playing at racket and skittles in the court, and grouped around the entrance to the snuggery or tap-room at the further end of the barrack.
The meal threatened to be interminable, as course succeeded course, till at last someone threw out a hint to the effect that a little exercise would be good for the diners, who had a game of skittles awaiting them.
But you could not well smoke there, so one by one they stole out into the garden where the skittles were already in full swing.
Even good old English manly pastimes like bowls and skittles are under the ban of the licensing magistrates.
There is the Skittles Inn at Letchworth, designed by Messrs.
Another piece of work for the pocket-knife expert is the provision of a set of funny skittle men for use in the game of catapult skittles (see below).
It consists simply of a board with a catapult at one end, and a set of skittles at the other.
The broken peg skittlesdealt with above will do admirably for this (Fig.
If desired, this cannon can be used in connection with the skittles as described on page 30, and in fact the pegs can be quite easily carved into the similitude of soldiers and used for the game.
And England fanned and favored this exodus, for it was very certain that there were too many mouths to feed in Ireland--half the number would not so jeopardize the beer and skittles of the landlords.
Napoleon was at that time playingskittles with all Europe, and the woman whom Fate robbed of her romance worshiped at the shrine of the Corsican, because every good woman has to worship something or somebody.
Besides, that's all skittles any way, and you've to pay for it sweetly through the nose in the long-run.
Amidst such abuses of the game, it can scarcely surprise us that the police have been recently directed to prohibit all playing at skittles and bowls.
Billiards has not as yet been placed, like skittles and bowls, under the interdict of the police authorities, and it is difficult to see how they could venture upon so tremendous an experiment.
A vast deal of gambling still goes on with skittles all over the country.
Ninepins or skittles is a number game, and one can score by using number groups, or by fetching counters, shells, beads, etc.
Some will go bathing in the harbour, others will go up to the warren by Loch O'Mulligan to hunt rabbits, others will remain in the village to watch the men and bigger boys play at skittles in a cleared space by the high road.
In the evening, however, I found the family gathered round a pole, with skittles at the foot of it.
They were wondering how Italian skittles was played, and, though I had no idea, I volunteered to teach them.
The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorrit urbanely went through the motions of playing a game of skittleswith the Collegian who was the next oldest inhabitant to himself; and left the tenantry to their diversions.
I'm not proficient enough in skittles to appreciate the feat," he answered.
This put a notion into my head, and the first day of our holiday we played skittles with some short posts set up in the sand on the beach, bowling at them with cocoa-nuts.
There is nobody throwing skittles at your legs at this moment, and I fancy that this switch is worth quite as much as your cherry stick.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skittles" 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
