How To Use Battledore In A Sentence
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One day I gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and green feathers.
Les Miserables
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The title refers to battledores that were often elaborately decorated, sometimes with images made out of pieces of cut coloured-cloth.
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The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair.
The Complete Stories
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He rode his favourite hobby of gardening, and took his regular 'ante-jentacular' and 'post-prandial' walks, and played battledore and shuttlecock in the intervals of codification.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
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Shuttlecock and battledore, "he said obscurely," ....
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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Ethel and Edith Dillon, as they were known to their parents, were playing the then-fashionable game of battledore, an early version of table tennis, in the family home at Clonbrock House.
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The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.
Oliver Twist
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Jackies on the outside of the partition with tops, balls, bats, and battledores, as a member of the long-robed fraternity within, who impose on grown country gentlemen with bouncing brocards of law.
Redgauntlet
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Lane began by negotiating a truce in a price war in the Far East between Royal Dutch and Shell and by putting an end to what he called the damaging “battledore and shuttlecock game of accusation” between Samuel and Deterding.
The Prize
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The combatants, being stripped and painted and each provided with a kind of battledore or racket, in shape resembling the letter P with a handle about two feet long and a head loosely wrought with network so as to form
The Journey to the Polar Sea
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His origins in the fashion industry are very visible in a print like 'Woman playing battledore' from the series 'Five figures of modern beauties'.
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I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The combatants being stript and painted, and each provided with a kind of battledore or racket, in shape resembling the letter P, with a handle about two feet long and a head loosely wrought with net-work, so as to form a shallow bag, range themselves on different sides.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1
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The royal shuttlecock being three-and-twenty, the battledores were very anxious to get him married.
A Child's History of England
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Materialism and spiritualism are a fine pair of battledores with which charlatans in long gowns keep a shuttlecock a-going.
The Magic Skin
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Participants will paint pictures and designs on their own battledores and tops, and then play with them.
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The name ‘badminton’ comes from Badminton House, the Duke of Beaufort's residence in Gloucestershire (now Avon) where a new version of battledore had emerged by the end of the 1850's.
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There was no harm in him — he had a great aversion to shedding blood: which was something — but, he was a weak, silly, helpless young man, and a mere shuttlecock to the great lordly battledores about the Court.
A Child's History of England
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The Billickin gracefully withdrew with this parting speech, and from that time Rosa occupied the restless position of shuttlecock between these two battledores.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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As improvements or variations of the horn book, cardboard sheets and wooden squares, known as battledores, appeared after 1770.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
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TUITION; and behind the blind was a little white – faced boy, with a slice of bread – and – butter and a battledore.
Little Dorrit
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I fear I ply my battledore so fiercely that the best of shuttlecocks has not time to right itself between the blows; but I will be steadier.
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The commoners too decorated their battledores, with colours which varied according to the local area.
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Of these battledores, Cardinal Beaufort, a relation of the King, and the Duke of Gloucester, were at first the most powerful.
A Child's History of England
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England, among so many battledores and such a poor shuttlecock; and the
A Child's History of England
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Approximately 50 thousand battledores, with prices ranging from 1000 yen to 600,000 yen are sold at this time.
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He and I played games like marbles and shuttlecock and battledore.
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These were called battledores, but as Mr. Tuer has dealt with this class in "The Horn Book" so thoroughly, it would be mere waste of time to discuss them here.
Children's Books and Their Illustrators
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Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers.
Les Miserables
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Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair.
The Complete Stories
