How To Use Billiards In A Sentence
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The original game of bagatelle was and is a pub game of skill that is closely related to the games of Billiards, Pool and Snooker.
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It is not enough to reach the summit of pocket billiards excellence.
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Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
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While shifting to billiards is too provocative for Washington, if trends continue, it may soon find itself behind the eight ball with few options for maintaining its stabilizing role in the region.
Billiards in the South China Sea
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The piano and the billiards table have been painstakingly restored.
Times, Sunday Times
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The long stick, which reminded some early users of a tail, can be used to make a ball hit another ball in a form of the game known as carom billiards, played with only three balls by real hustlers on a table with no pockets.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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It began to provide leisure facilities for its members, including rooms in the Queen Street headquarters for people who played bagatelle, billiards and ‘who wished to indulge in the doubtful activity of smoking’.
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A committee meeting will be held on Thursday night, names are being taken for the first tournament of the year, billiards and snooker, so we hope for a big response.
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There what I found was many ladies tend to take part in pool and they also compete in international tournaments even when it comes to billiards and snooker.
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The battalion chapel and a game room with billiards and ping-pong tables were also located in the DFAC building.
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However, I fear they are retreating, and minority indulgences such as cribbage are going the same way as dominoes, shove ha'penny, bar billiards, and the very jolly, unpretentious boozers in which they used to be played day and night.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The genteel sports of croquet, boules, billiards and tennis are also available.
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When the party began to simmer down, Melanie started to have a headache so she walked into the billiards room to sit on one of the un-occupied leather couches.
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Activities such as picnics, walks, riding, croquet, billiards and lawn tennis could show off the young lady at her best angle and prove to the gentleman her intelligence and worthiness of being his bride.
The Country House Party | Edwardian Promenade
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An appropriate metaphor might be a game of billiards or snooker, events in the three kingdoms so many balls bouncing off one another and occasionally falling into pockets.
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This was more than a mere adjustment, more than a casual game of pocket billiards.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you play a couple of games of snooker and then go play ‘normal’ billiards, you'll play like a pro (for a little while).
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A piece of wood used to steady the cue in billiards .
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The O'Brien Hall is now open every night of the week except Sunday night for pool, billiards, snooker, and cards.
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The balls are 61.5mm in diameter, much larger than in snooker or billiards.
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The hall will open nightly at 7.30 pm and will remain open until 11 pm for billiards, snooker, pool and cards.
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A billiards table covered with a sheet serves as a staging area for small items to be moved.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the end of the three-day visit, they had faced off over 10 sets of tennis, three games of chess, and a round of billiards.
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The organization is hosting a fundraiser Thursday at Buffalo Billiards that sounds like the perfect guys' night out: Take on the Redskins' Lorenzo Alexander, the Mystics' Chasity Melvin, Patriots cornerback Leigh Bodden or one of 20 other professional athletes in pool, shuffleboard, Wii Bowling or darts, with all the proceeds going to charity.
Nightlife Agenda: Wild Flag, Nouveau Riche and real ale
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The lottery comes as the Cabinet plans for a new lottery for gambling on professional baseball and billiards.
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Warm sunshine and a surface on which you could have played billiards.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, it is his approach on the table - be it snooker or billiards - that makes him stand out.
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A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards.
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The sports complex will have facilities for indoor games including badminton, billiards, and table tennis.
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A game / billiards room on the first floor opens out onto a patio with a hot tub.
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For now I'll be content to shoot pool at City Billiards.
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This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
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The sports complex will have facilities for indoor games including badminton, billiards, and table tennis.
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Jones simply walked over Brown at billiards.
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Added to this improbable mix is a duet for two men playing billiards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lovers of the game feel that billiards and snooker will die a slow death in India as long as the games remain unknown to the common man.
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He switched to billiards and a few years ago turned professional.
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I played pool and billiards, because by the end of the 1st quarter, I knew who was going to win.
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Me and Frank had been playing billiards at the Liberal club, a big chapel-like building on Kenworthy Road.
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Quality of hit is vital to pocket billiards excellence.
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The younger crowd sat at the end of the room furthest from the billiards table, where they could smoke without being noticed.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Now, if you were a gentleman," he said, taking mercy on her after watching her for several seconds as she spread and respread the lemon curd on her toast, "we could play billiards.
Snow Angels
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He taught young ladies to play billiards on a wet day, or went in for the game in serious earnest when required.
Wives and Daughters
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Separate areas hold the pocket billiards and indoor shuffleboard tables.
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To me, my growth in pocket billiards is the ‘word’.
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Now first off, pool (formally known as billiards) is all about physics, and this game does an excellent job at replicating that, and it looks good doing it, too.
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It was a masculine room, with a billiards table in the center.
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Games such as billiards, bowling, golf and pinball are all derived from marbles, enthusiasts say, though such claims are probably impossible to verify.
Now No One Plays for Keeps
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The English are also very fond of games, including snooker (a billiards game) and darts.
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I'd like to play a few more games at billiards with him.
Vanity Fair
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They skied and played Russian billiards.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, the 69th National billiards championship held at the Hari Niwas Palace in Jammu will be remembered more for the boardroom tables than the green baize tables.
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But I don't gamble by means of dice," interrupted Lewis, "I play, and bet, on billiards, which is a game of skill, requiring much practice, judgment, and thought.
Rivers of Ice
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However, cue games like billiards and pool exhibit that extreme sensitivity and instability highlighted by Maxwell.
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There's also a games room with billiards table and the celeb must-haves of a gym and cinema.
The Sun
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But in professional carom, unlike in billiards, the cue ball has to hit three cushions during the shot.
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The billiards player topped the cue ball to make It'spin forward.
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The council should be aware that enunciating this name has become a pub sport, alongside bar billiards, pool, darts, bear-baiting, dominos and international cricket.
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Bagatelle was played on large slate-bed tables of a similar size to Snooker or Billiards tables.
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Billiards, bowling, chess and golf are among the few sports to allow the sexes to compete against each other.
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Monson Road members can play pool, snooker, darts, bar billiards, and enjoy live entertainment including karaoke and discos.
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Jones simply walked over Brown at billiards.
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Reg Hinders won the skittles and billiards titles.
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When that was finished he would take his hubble-bubble and puff away at that, until he was ready to go downstairs and play billiards, after which it was off to bed.
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It was played like English Billiards by aiming to pocket balls, go in-off or by making canons which were called ‘caroms’.
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For more information, please refer to the separate page on Bar Billiards.
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Following centuries of Billiards dominated by England and France, during the 19th century a third country became obsessed with the sport of cues and balls.
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There was a billiards table, air hockey, darts, a TV with a DVD player and a Playstation 2, and a hot tub.
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In the library, books are arranged by subject, including a section for poetry and literature, one for Mr. Savage's comic compendiums and separate spaces for his books on poker theory, billiards and pool.
A Model Maker's Workshop
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Trueman's show was an homage to pub sports-bar billiards, darts, skittles and shove ha'penny.
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A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards.
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A long tapered rod leather tip used to strike the cue ball in billiards and pool.
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Like the bar billiards table, I would guess.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an effort to attract casual bowlers, centers now offer entertainment alternatives such as billiards and air hockey; bumpers keep balls from gutters for children's birthday parties.
Bullish on Bowling -- Yes, Bowling
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He led me through to the billiards room, where pictures, mostly rugger teams, decorated the walls.
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I wrote the book about the inner game of pocket billiards because I have a lot of experience with the self-defeating elements that destroy an otherwise fine game.
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For two players like us, dinner on the docks was plenty incentive to strive for pocket billiards excellence.
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Under the Bolton Corporation Act, 1872, there were also 158 licences for public music, dancing, and billiards, bagatelle, bowls, etc.
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Playing billiards is my chief recreation.
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You begin your pocket billiards journey with the end in mind.
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But this was in its way also a kind of billiards: by writing about Taha, a poet who both does and doesn't represent the major strands in Palestinian literature, I was able to write about many others as well.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Playing billiards is my chief recreation.
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The tournaments in billiards and snooker will soon be commencing so members should come in and get in some practice.
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Books are arranged by subject, including a section for poetry and literature, one for Mr. Savage's comic compendiums and separate spaces for his books on poker theory, billiards and pool.
A Model Maker's Workshop
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All are welcome to attend what promises to be a great afternoon of billiards.
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The council should be aware that enunciating this name has become a pub sport, alongside bar billiards, pool, darts, bear-baiting, dominos and international cricket.
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There could be no reason why he should not play at billiards, but he was determined not to bet.
Middlemarch
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First it was indoor swimming pools, then came indoor tennis, of course the huge influx of indoor sports like snooker, billiards, table tennis became hot favourites.
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Cash-strapped sponsors of table tennis, billiards and badminton are seriously considering a change in uniform so that its women players look less dowdy and more fetching.
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However, the hall will remain open on Thursday nights and Saturday nights during the summer for anyone who wants a game of pool, snooker or billiards.
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The castle has a panelled dining room, a library, a billiards room and a grand hall.
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Joseph Thompson memorial billiards - this memorial billiards tournament will commence very soon and will be played in the O'Brien hall, Borris-in-Ossory.
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What do you say to going down to the hotel and having a game of _bazzica_, as they call billiards here?
The Place of Honeymoons
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I couldn't possibly have done a worse job than the people who try to make golf and snooker (including pool and billiards) sound exciting.
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Choose from billiards, horseshoes, tag games, hockey, Frisbee, tug of war, jump ropes, running, or bowling, just to name a few.
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The game of pocket billiards has a unique way of making us all equal.
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Just let me google how you play billiards.
Times, Sunday Times
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A long tapered rod leather tip used to strike the cue ball in billiards and pool.
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Other former department stores are now a bingo hall and a billiards parlor.
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People in their early 20s are particularly lazy, despite the fact that the question about sport included the physically unchallenging options of snooker, pool and billiards.
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Whoever designed the game cleverly ensured it was more economical on space in pubs and clubs than ordinary billiards and pool tables because players strike from one end of the table so there is no need to walk around the table at all.
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The tournaments in billiards and snooker will soon be commencing so members should come in and get in some practice.
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If you are playing in tournaments, or heading for the play offs in your league, you will want to have a grasp of the four strokes of pocket billiards.
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GREENSBORO (MCT) - The Guilford County Board of Health rejected an appeal Tuesday from a Greensboro billiards club cited several times for violating the smoking ban in restaurants and bars.
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Eli took me under his wing and showed me a lot of basic concepts and finer points of making gathers in straight rail and balkline carom billiards.
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All snooker, pool and billiards tournaments are about to begin and all those taking part must be fully paid up members of the club.
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Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then!
Shandygaff
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Luke summarized while he and Mary played pool at Billiards.
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Kung tutuusin madami naman akong pwedeng pagpipiliiang paksa … internet, fashion, basketball, billiards, abortion, pre-marital sex at kung ano ano pa.
Archive 2008-08-01
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The castle has a panelled dining room, a library, a billiards room and a grand hall.
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Lovers of the game feel that billiards and snooker will die a slow death in India as long as the games remain unknown to the common man.
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What's a game at billiards?
Middlemarch
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One of the lynchpins of the Pigneto scene, funkily retro Bar Necci Via Fanfulla da Lodi, 68; necci1924.com , was frequented by a slumming director Pier Paolo Pasolini back in the days when it was full of young proletarians hunched over billiards tables.
Finding Fellini
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However, the hall will remain open on Thursday nights and Saturday nights during the summer for anyone who wants a game of pool, snooker or billiards.
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The meaning comes from Billiards, where a carom is a shot in which the cue ball is made to rebound so as to hit two other balls.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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As an illustration of what he calls symbolic movements, I will quote his remarks (p. 37), taken from M. Chevreul, on a man playing at billiards.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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There is no evidence of an ancestor of Billiards prior to this time, unless you do lower your criteria to count all the other games played with bats, balls and skittles.
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This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
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They had a billiard table and I had never played billiards but he and his father played all the time and I remember thinking, ‘that must be rather nice’.
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The only sport that the young, roundish "Mike" King was known to excel at was pocket billiards, which isn't exactly a sport
Mark Rauterkus & Running Mates ponder current events
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These persons may participate in low-intensity sports such as bowling, golf, billiards, and cricket.
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Duc Nguyen, 44, said French billiards - also known as carom billiards -- is a popular game among Vietnamese, and he is banking his business on the city's fast-growing Southeast Asian community.
Azcentral.com | news
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That night, after dinner, Sheldon and Joan were playing billiards, when Satan barked in the compound, and Lalaperu, sent to see, brought back a tired and travel-stained native, who wanted to talk with the "big fella white marster.
Chapter 23