How To Use Marbles In A Sentence

This wall was originally incrusted with rich marbles, and the great dome, adorned with deep coffering in rectangular panels, was decorated with rosettes and mouldings in gilt stucco. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
We used to have freedom and play in the fields with traditional toys such as hoops, a top and whip and marbles.
If we may trust the old marbles, my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
So time went by very fast, we were now playing outdoor games like tig, hide and seek and marbles or ‘Taws’, as we knew them.
Demonstration 1. Fill the transparent container to the brim with marbles.

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Navy commandoes slid down to the vessel one by one, yet then the unexpected occurred: The passengers that awaited them on the deck pulled out bats, clubs, and slingshots with glass marbles, assaulting each soldier as he disembarked. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
If they were glass marbles they would a highly sought - after collectible.
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
Greece's attempts to get the British government to return the Elgin Marbles have met another roadblock, this time from within.
From their arrival in England the ‘Elgin Marbles’ had a revolutionary impact on European taste, and the Parthenon sculptures are still considered to mark the apogee of Greek art.
The British government has remained steadfast in its refusal to return the marbles.
I overheard these older girls talking about him being a dreamboat but I just see him as Scott, the kid that had to go to the doctor because he swallowed eight marbles whole.
I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lira.
So might cover the marbles with gladwrap first as a buffer to keep their convexness from being too convex. September 12th, 2007
Gail nodded and bit her lip again, turning her attention back to the game board and staring at the jumbled patterns of red and yellow marbles.
As he droned on, I would watch the kites flying and tangling with each other in the afternoon sky, mentally replay a lost game of marbles, or look forward to the Test match between Pakistan and the West Indies.
he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind
There was a glass marble at the top of the bottle which was much prized as marbles were at a premium. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
The most important specimens of Lumachella marbles are the pair of very fine large columns of L. rosea on the ground-floor of the Schiarra Palace, the balustrade of the high altar of St. Andrea della Valle, two columns in the garden of the Corsini Palace of L. d 'Astracane, and a pair of large pillars which support one of the arches of the Vatican Library, formed of L. occhio di pavone. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
It's just lots of genial old blokes sitting around whittling chess pieces and playing with marbles. Times, Sunday Times
The next three cases (43-45) are chiefly devoted to the various crystallisations of calcite, including that generally known as the Fontainbleau crystallised sandstone, and the stalactic and fibrous varieties from Africa, Sweden, and Cumberland; while the two cases marked 45 A and B are covered with polished samples, known to people generally as marbles, including the beautiful fire marble. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
Agates, the gold standard of marbles (called aggies), came in a rainbow of subtle colors with overlaying colored patterns that made them look like beautiful, semi-precious stones.
As for the history: the game of marbles may be claimed by the ancient Romans, or perhaps in India five hundred years ago.
He and I played games like marbles and shuttlecock and battledore.
She's 81 years old, and up until yesterday I thought she still had all her marbles intact, I'm not so sure now.
There was a glass marble at the top of the bottle which was much prized as marbles were at a premium. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
A uniformed ostiary ushered us into the reception area, a temple of understatement in exotic marbles and dark, gleaming woods.
Against this grisly, dark smutch the whites of the man's eyes stood out like sculpted marbles. Dirge
My country where I was born, I grew up, and on whose streets I played tipcat and marbles, is under occucpation.
Marbles, real name Jonathan May-Bowles, was sentenced to six weeks in jail, and his last tweet before heading off to the clink was an "lol" in reply to @hypervocal. Lee Brenner: The Top 10 Stories From 2011 Missing From All the Top 10 Lists
The British government has remained steadfast in its refusal to return the marbles.
Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
I was exhilarated to roll these subjects around in my mind like marbles in my hand, and play with their arrangement.
A person, once normal, who loses his/her marbles, is properly called demented. ProWomanProLife » Voting begins now
Marbles at one end and cannon-balls at the other, Maz was all about convexities. Warthearm
'I wad only niffer them for bools (exchange them for marbles).' Robert Falconer
As she sat at the edge of his feet, failing to become amused from her silly game of marbles, she'd glance towards him every so often in hope that he might finally speak to her and prove that he wasn't quite so ill as she thought.
Fill martini glasses with BBs or marbles, leaving 1/2 inch at the top of the glass.
When Greeks talk about their missing marbles, they are usually referring to Lord Elgin's souvenir-hunting around the Parthenon.
I beat Joe good and proper in the game of marbles.
For Irving, I bought a one dollar sack of glass marbles.
For example, hard and even surfaces allow for children to play marbles or hopscotch, or to practice riding a scooter.
Willie Greene, his 4-year-old grandson, came to visit the ranch with a pocketful of marbles.
There was always a red plastic bucket brimming with peas like precious emerald marbles. Times, Sunday Times
We see, however, in the magazine of the oil merchant, his jars in perfect order, in the bakehouse are the hand mills in their original places, and of a description which exactly tallies with those alluded to in holy writ; the ovens scarcely want repairs; where a sculptor worked, there we find his marbles and his productions, in various states of forwardness, just as he left them. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
Liapis said Monday it is time for all Greek political leaders to increase pressure on Britain to hand over the ancient sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.
Endill tried to cheer him up, tempting him with games of marbles underneath History class or journeys into the corridors.
The pavement, which is level with the ground, is composed of slabs of fine and various coloured marbles, mostly, however, white, disposed chequerwise. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
She kept what she called a bookseller's shop as well as the post-office; but the supply of books corresponded exactly to the lack of demand for them, and her chief trade was in nicknacks, from marbles and money-boxes up to concertinas. Auld Licht Idylls
Marbles" - the Royal Navy communications rating spelt the codeword back phonetically - `has transferred, over. LET NOT THE DEEP
Next in marbles were the sold colors, opaque or with a swirl through them. Childhood Games: Marbles and More « Colleen Anderson
Three prominent thin bands of pale-coloured calc-silicate marbles occur on the Lhotse face in the western cwm on the north face of Lhotse and high on the south face of the Lhotse-Nuptse ridge.
It did rather lose its marbles towards the end and had turned malicious after one particularly thorough seeing to by a bloke who didn't know how to switch it on and powered it up at least nine times in a way that the manual expressly forbade.
In the window is displayed a box of marbles -- glassies, commonies, and a larger browny adapted to the purpose of "pugging," by reason of the violence with which it seems to respond to the impact of your thumb. Journeys to Bagdad
'I wad only niffer them for bools (exchange them for marbles).' Robert Falconer
Year five and six children sold cakes and raised money through the guessing the name of the teddy bear and the number of marbles game.
That could mean anything from a child of three trying to balance on a big brother's skateboard at the top of a flight of stairs, to little children swallowing marbles or other small toys.
She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons.
Echoing the pleas of the Greeks for the repatriation of the Elgin marbles, Egypt has appealed to the British Museum for the return of the Rosetta Stone.
His early experiments involved catapulting marbles across a tub of water in his garden.
They laid their marbles on the floor and played for an hour.
It takes much more physical skill, strength and endurance than you give it credit for (a tad more than shuffleboard, bocce or marbles).
One contains 2 black marbles, another one contains 2 white marbles, and the third contains one black marble and one white one.
[One neighbor] expressed the disgust of the others when he remarked, ‘Well, I did play marbles when I was a kid, but by gad this is the first time I've seen men play!’
A Saw type figure, played by Tyler Perry as Madea in a horrific Richard Nixon mask, taunts the survivors with his eerie song "kerplunk kerplunk, marbles on your head, I pull out another stick, and you'll be dead. Jilly Gagnon: New Movies From Mattel
The many-colored marbles with which the interior is sheathed, originally brightly polished and with details picked out in gold, demonstrate the Roman love of splendor.
After the jaggery is dissolved add the marbles you made in stage 1 to the boiling liquid. Archive 2006-10-01
On the drawers stands a board with coloured marbles for the game of solitaire, and I have only to open the drawer with the loose handle to bring out the dambrod. A Window in Thrums
The rocking-horse's nose couldn't turn up, it was the purest Grecian, modelled from the Elgin marbles. The Brownies and Other Tales
For all I knew, despite her pedigree—her dad is Arie Kopelman , a former head of Chanel; her brother Will dates Drew Barrymore; and she attended the Spence School, Taft and Yale—she might be short a couple of marbles. Bullets and 'F-Bombs'
Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney.' The Pickwick papers
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
The children also took part in Victorian pastimes such as Throw the Horseshoe, a coconut shy, a tin can alley, marbles and hoop the duck.
It might have been brazen but it was the only way you could get things like cigarette cards back then, and cigarette cards, along with glass marbles, were staples of the small child's barter system.
His friends thought it would be a laugh, but they never expected him to stay for almost a year and they start to wonder if he's lost his marbles.
Rosie at once scrambled to her feet, the marbles she had in her lap dropping and clattering over the polished wood floors.
Duck prosciutto, a "medium" bite, weaves across a plate of feathery mizuna its bite is like that of arugula, toasted walnuts and tart marbles of compressed apple, everything drizzled with walnut oil. Tom Sietsema on Bluegrass Tavern: New Baltimore eatery celebrates 'bites'
Through the telescope I could see the eyes glint like black marbles.
She and Benjamin weren't exactly working together; both were too eager to get the small marbles off the floor.
Egina marbles, and have something of the same effect: the small round hat is in the form of Mercury's petasus; and the shoes and gaiters of the greater number are excellently adapted to defend the legs and feet in riding through the thickets. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
The finale was destined to be a Drew/Stacy stunner for all the marbles from the get-go, but there’s a certain order the rest of the field needed to be eliminated in to maintain some level of credibility. Dancing with the Stars
Elevated upon pedestals of porphyry, they formed the graceful entrance to a semicircular flight of marble steps which led from the lake to a broad terrace interlaid with parti-colored marbles, in every variety of device which taste could conceive, or art execute. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
The object of the game is to capture either 2 marbles of each color, or 3 white, 4 gray, or 5 black marbles.
Another reason for making the marbles is for smarter consumption of sweet. Archive 2007-12-01
Drive-by vandals hurling rocks and marbles at glass shopfronts are forcing business owners to fear for their safety and bear the cost of thousands of dollars in repairs.
Losing your mind or losing your faculties or losing your marbles is about age – none of which was said. Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
The main thing I remember about that movie is that I think he threw marbles on the ground and the fellow fell over.
She kept what she called a bookseller's shop as well as the post-office; but the supply of books corresponded exactly to the lack of demand for them, and her chief trade was in nick-nacks, from marbles and money-boxes up to concertinas. Auld Licht Idyls
He was trying to be friendly in a slightly heavy-handed fashion, and possibly had a couple of marbles missing from his collection, but was more like a slightly batty grandfather, than a menace.
However; one of the truly great 'bennies' of this event was meeting the next generation of America's rocket people ... and that includes the TARC 2010 National Champions, Penn Manor High School ... who went on to the International competition and took ALL the marbles there as well. Aero-News Network
Keep the child from eating the marbles
The game board tumbled to the ground and twenty red and yellow marbles rolled in various directions across the floor, beneath the bed, and under the dresser.
They would like to ban possession of marbles, golf balls, batteries, as potentials for causing damage as projectiles.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G. K. Chesterton
Additionally, the Parthenon Marbles have always been on show here free of charge, a generosity unmatched in Athens.
Buzul-bazi is a game like marbles or dice, played with sheep's knucklebones.
Other traditional games such as skipping and marbles are also being brought back in other primary schools.
When Koff unearths the body of a child who has a pocket full of marbles, she muses over the tragedy of the situation.
Your two assumptions not overly burdensome and you have your marbles are the heart of the dilemma. The Speculist: Paging Dr. Tithonius
His reputation as an arbiter of taste suffered after an ill-considered attack on the quality of the Elgin Marbles in 1816.
The game board tumbled to the ground and twenty red and yellow marbles rolled in various directions across the floor, beneath the bed, and under the dresser.
But as Nietzsche discovered, incessant philosophical thought can also damage one's marbles.
Marbles" - the Royal Navy communications rating spelt the codeword back phonetically - `has transferred, over. LET NOT THE DEEP
There are more statuettes than full-size statues, more bronze casts than original marbles. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
We used to break old soda water bottles to get at the marbles which were used as stoppers in these bottles.
White and speckled alstroemeria flowers and tapered reed stems combine with cat's eye marbles in a glass vase.
He liked to chase fire engines, lead parades and play marbles under the stands between innings of games.
A museum has opened in Athens with a special gallery for the Elgin Marbles, Greek sculptures which have been in the British Museum in London for nearly 200 years and are still there.
Within that huge space, the marbles will be arrayed around the outside of a rectangular structure that is the same length and width as the Parthenon.
God I love the Internet. crm3006: Maybe someday your itty-bitty marbles will reach their final destination and you will post under your real name. Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A.
He puts on his dressing gown, tearing one of its pockets in his haste, letting marbles scatter across the floor.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G. K. Chesterton
He looked up briefly, his expression blank, his eyes black marbles behind the dark lenses. CORMORANT
Traditional games such as skipping, marbles and conkers are disappearing from school yards, not because children are scared of skinning their knees, but because their teachers are scared of being sued.
Chicks should be able to dip only their beaks into the water dish, so place pebbles, marbles, or a screen in the dish.
One was playing with two glass marbles, rolling them from hand to hand, completely ignoring the unearthly commotion going on around him.
He devises a game of marbles, and sits with the child and plays.
The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
We play it constantly … instead of marbles they are the little green alien men and the cylinder is a spaceship. Remember KerPlunk? - The Retroist
Would it be possible to start with a full container of water and add marbles and sand?
In 1783 Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the court took up a brief residence here to assist at the aerostatic experiences of De Rosier, and in 1787, ceasing to be a royal residence, La Muette was offered for sale after first having been stripped of its precious wainscotings, its marbles and the artistic curiosities of all sorts with which it had been decorated. Royal Palaces and Parks of France
There's nothing like being on a third story roof and the fine grit from the shingles acting like marbles under your feet, making you slide toward the edge with nothing to grab to stop your fall .... Fear
At the head of every saloon a latticed window projected over the garden whereof the description shall follow in its place; and they paved the ground with vari-coloured marbles and alabastrine slabs which were dubbed with bezel stones and onyx [FN#186] of Arabian nights. English
The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
Here are paintings by the old masters and the new; rare furniture and marbles from Italian palaces; screens from Japan; jewels and rugs from the Orient; silk stockings, curios, china, bronzes, hats, furs; and again more curios, cabinets, statues, paintings; things rare and beautiful and exotic from every quarter of the globe, "from silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon. Penguin Persons & Peppermints
Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an alley tor and a commoney. Bardell v. Pickwick
His piggy eyes, deep set and sunken in his fat, pink head, glinted like Mercury marbles and darted left and right in confusion.
The British Museum yesterday received its first official proposal from Greece in its campaign for the return of the controversial Elgin Marbles.
Shortly she became possessed of a bewildering collection consisting variously of large glass marbles with a twist of coloured glass inside; two or three lichi nuts, then a curiosity; a dried gull's wing; several exploded shotgun shells; and a The Adventures of Bobby Orde
Kids and teenagers have always gambled, whether at marbles or flipping baseball cards.
When the alarm went off, the marbles clattered down on to my lino bedroom floor. Times, Sunday Times
In others the softer shells and bones are dissolved, and only sharks teeth or harder echini have preserved their form inveloped in the chalk or lime-stone; in some marbles the solution has been compleat and no vestiges of shell appear, as in the white kind called statuary by the workmen. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Dance-music was pouring from the arched recesses above the doorways, and chandeliers of coloured Murano glass diffused a soft brightness over the pilasters of the stuccoed walls, and the floor of inlaid marbles on which couples were rapidly forming for the contradance. The Valley of Decision
Only the works of art, the durable white marbles, have outlasted antiquity to become part of the museum collections of modern Rome.
Kenworthy's first interpretation was that Neville's marbles had spilled out of his reach - out of the reach of both of them. MOONDROP TO MURDER
The marbles are rounded and have less internal friction to resist shear.
Sciberras excels in his evaluation of evidence and in technical matters such as the precise identification of all the various marbles.
There was always a red plastic bucket brimming with peas like precious emerald marbles. Times, Sunday Times
But the British Museum caused a sensation in the early 1800s when it dared display the Elgin Marbles.
These include tag, hide-and-seek, kite-flying, marbles, and spinning tops.
Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
If you don't have a glue pot, cover the bottom of a saucepan with marbles or pebbles so as to support the tin can free of the bottom during heating.
I wonder if those boneheads at the administration office have lost their marbles…
From its original LP release in 1973, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" has ballooned to the six audio and video discs plus bric-a-brac such as marbles and replica tour tickets included in the recently released "Immersion Box Set" version of the album. Snapshot
This hill consisted of amygdaloidal trap in nodules, the crevices being filled with crystals of sulphate of lime, and there were many round balls of ironstone, like marbles or round shot, strewed about. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
He sounded like he was gargling marbles but it was oddly musical and whispery. 365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Though of Western design, the ensemble had been created for the Old Summer Palace near Beijing, whose looting and destruction in 1860 by Anglo-French forces (led by General Cousin-Montauban and the eighth Lord Elgin, whose father acquired marbles from the Parthenon) has become a symbol of national humiliation for the Chinese. The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads
It's just lots of genial old blokes sitting around whittling chess pieces and playing with marbles. Times, Sunday Times
The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
There was always a red plastic bucket brimming with peas like precious emerald marbles. Times, Sunday Times
His movements were becoming liquid and his eyes were beginning to slide around in their sockets like marbles in oil.
Almost everywhere one can see the names and other writings which the visitors inscribe on the stones and marbles.
Emmeline might have been referring to conkers, or jacks, or marbles, for all I knew that morning. Kate Morton Ebook Collection
I nodded as the submanager pumped away at my hand, grinding my knuckles against one another like a fistful of marbles. Reconstituted (novel excerpt)
This is where Sancho knows his master has lost his marbles since he himself produced this ersatz Dulcinea.
Fill the transparent container to the brim with marbles.
Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.
Drop a couple of marbles into the cup and watch the water spill over.
Several stunning sequences show the earth split apart in massive fissures as people tumble like spilled marbles.
And despite some worries last night (involving thunder, lightning, and hailstones the size of marbles), the weather has turned out reasonably well.
Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
Playing for all the marbles; the color of money; a slushier Iditarod; China's torch song Calendar
The marbles of Franklin and Washington seem too sharply white when placed in the company of those which have not been in the hands of museums or the trade, such as the Antoine Louis referred to above.
Of the outstanding figures of the period, Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel, was the first to collect marbles seriously.
Boys play marbles, spin tops, fly kites, and play such games as kabaddi (team wrestling).
Other traditional games such as skipping and marbles are also being brought back in other primary schools.
Those looking for a low introductory offer that covers both purchases and transfers could consider the Nationwide Building Society and Marbles.
The choice is unlimited, ranging from marbles, bathroom fittings to furniture to wall paintings and even safe lockers, all of which make a distinct impression to the visitor.
I do believe the ex-England supremo has lost his marbles.
Carve your name on hearts but not on marbles.
The women remained in confinement within the marbles of the gyneceum. The Physiology of Marriage, Complete
For example, in “Marble Bubble Bobble,” Scott develops the impressionistic swerve of “Umbra marbles drench the ravine slot, divot light, a barreled birch grasps citrus palm as pumice, as coastal groove hulls plunge pool, the cervical troll, pawpaw bract.” Derek beaulieu on blert
He held up a game he was scheduled to pitch because he was playing marbles with children outside the park.
_grotesque_, or _promiscuously interspersed_; and the description here given leaves out the most beautiful kind of arabesque, namely, the inlaid work of geometrical figures in colored marbles, in which the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
His enigmatic assemblages glimmer with glitter, buttons, beads, marbles and plastic toys, bearing what appear to be images of mythic emperors and omniscient eyes.
-- with its thirty columns of different coloured granites and rare marbles, cipolino, porta santa, occhio di pavone (_vide_ Corsi); its busts, its ornamented tazzas, its statues, and many other _et coeteras_ too numerous to catalogue. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
It was the sort of rain that resembled water being wrung out of a dishcloth - droplets the size of marbles and musty-smelling to boot.
The jar was deposited carefully inside the tomb, built and masoned and sculpted within four days out of multicolored marbles, round in shape and supported by fluted columns crowned with the new kind of capital Sulla had brought back from Corinth and had made so popular-delicate sprays of acanthus leaves. Fortune's Favorites
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
They were playing marbles on the blacktop, even the girls in their pretty pinafores kneeling on the dirty ground, their knees blackened and tiny little pebbles sticking to their skin.
Children play a game like marbles with cashew seeds.
So he bought a jar and filled it with 1,000 marbles.
Perhaps he was just losing his marbles; there was a history of insanity in his family.
His wife is gradually losing her marbles; his sister-in-law is a dippy alcoholic.
He agrees that Elgin exceeded the terms of his firman, but points out that there were two additional firmans from the Sultan sanctioning the export of the marbles.
What about 'losing your marbles', is that better?? uhm??? senator, hum????????? it has nothing to do with age, but reasoning. McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue
Many a time I have put on my spectacles to look at the lassie in church, because she has gentle blue een, wi 'long lashes; and, when she sits in shadow, and is very still and very pale, and is, happen, about to fall asleep wi' the length of the sermon and the heat of the biggin '- she is as like one of Canova's marbles as aught else.' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney.' The Pickwick Papers
Its breath, coming as wind, swirls and marbles the planetary surface, changing the patterns of the clouds.
The outline of the field was clearly marked with a border of white marbles about four feet high.
Among hoped-for advancements, Ms. Henry cites self-cleaning uniform fabric made of tiny nanofilaments so small that liquids bead and roll off like marbles, preventing the cloth from ever getting stained or wet. Work Wear Hits Pay Dirt
In front of the chair, three black children were on their hands and knees playing some kind of game with marbles.
Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
The marbles hit a screen installed in 2004 to protect MPs from an anthrax attack. The Sun
But as the years went by, Bishop noticed that her son, who loved to play marbles on the ground out back, always seemed to have infected sores on his knees.
I sat and sipped my wine, thinking of the fate of cities, -- of Nineveh the renowned, of the marbles lately recovered from thence with the mysterious arrowheaded characters. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.
The children also took part in Victorian pastimes such as Throw the Horseshoe, a coconut shy, a tin can alley, marbles and hoop the duck.
The product that animates Harris's work life is Crazy Bones - packs of small, brightly hued plastic figurines that are used to play a variety of games similar to jacks or marbles or dice.
While you could argue that it turned attention away from the real issues at hand, the fact Marbles helped write most of the next day's headlines showed it worked as a situationist prank. Culture flash: custard pies

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