How To Use Ninepin In A Sentence
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Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin.
The Complete Father Brown
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Our two sport disciplines, tenpin and ninepin, also have their own business structures.
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Certain of the men have huge dilly-bags made of strips of lawyer-cane, and shaped like a ninepin with a funnel for a head.
Tropic Days
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The old gentleman is merely shaken and has his internal feathers beaten up, the cushion is restored to its usual place beside him, and the old lady, perhaps with her cap adjusted and perhaps not, is planted in her chair again, ready to be bowled down like a ninepin.
Bleak House
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Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.
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I've seldom been to a performance at the Globe where somebody doesn't faint, and at Titus Andronicus a few years back there was a domino effect in the Yard with people going down like ninepins; guessing who would be next was almost as compelling as the cannibalism happening on stage.
How to survive six hours of Henry IV at the Globe
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Orders for games included 48 chessboards and chessmen, 12 sets of fox and geese, 6 sets of jackstraws, 9 boxes of ninepins, and 3 sets of German tactics.
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When Grete's drunken father loses her in a game of ninepins to the local innkeeper, she runs away to pursue Fritz.
Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley
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Orders for games included 48 chessboards and chessmen, 12 sets of fox and geese, 6 sets of jackstraws, 9 boxes of ninepins, and 3 sets of German tactics.
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These are fluid times in pop, with barriers between musical genres falling like ninepins.
Rizzle Kicks; Alex Clare – review
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As I did so, the Thing rose straight at me in a leap, and I was knocked over like a ninepin.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin.
The Complete Father Brown
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The rush became a flood after the fiasco of Humanae Vitae in 1968 and seminaries, novitiates and training colleges fell like ninepins as many, if not most, priests, brothers and nuns chose lay life at a rate not seen since the Reformation.
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Not much has changed since Connecticut banned ninepins in 1841.
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Well, imagine some of the greatest men in France as these ninepins and then this Monsieur Caratal was the ball which could be seen coming from far away.
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George got off one shot before Eddie's bullet drove him back into the screaming man, bowling him over like a ninepin, but it went wild.
The Drawing of the Three
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The great wall of China's nothing but a line of ninepins to the Chugach and St. Elias wall.
The Rim of the Desert
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The series has its fans for one reason: scattering hordes of goons like a bowling ball through ninepins can be gratifying; and, as your efforts control the ebb and flow of battle, there is a surprising level of tactical thought involved.
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Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer, as well as they.
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The autumn ramble: the woods, the dog, the gun, the Hudson, the stranger, the "ninepins" company, the flagon, the waking -- the changed scenes.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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That he was called upon to serve his country, by good service, if such were within his power, he did acknowledge freely; but not that he should allow himself to be stuck up as a ninepin only to be knocked down!
The Duke's Children
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These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them.
Work Camp 934 L
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Orders for games included 48 chessboards and chessmen, 12 sets of fox and geese, 6 sets of jackstraws, 9 boxes of ninepins, and 3 sets of German tactics.
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I doubt we'll get any rain out of it, but I like to listen to Rip Van Winkle and the boys playing ninepins all the same.
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Mr Sparkler, as to tip that gentleman over like a larger species of ninepin, and cause him to exhibit the soles of his shoes to the object of his dearest wishes: while the nobler portions of his anatomy struggled at the bottom of his boat in the arms of one of his men.
Little Dorrit
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Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.
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With the favorites falling like ninepins, the unlikely beneficiary has been Sean Gallagher, a reality TV show star and businessman who was considered a 40 to one outsider when the race started.
Niall O'Dowd: The Irish Presidential Race Becomes a Gripping Soap Opera
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May I be thrown amidst all the devils of hell, even as a great bowl cast athwart at a set of ninepins, or cannon-ball shot among a battalion of foot, in case so many times I do not boult my future wife the first night of our marriage!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Here was no commonplace, no Oakland Estuary, no weary round of throwing newspapers at front doors, delivering ice, and setting up ninepins.
Chapter 6
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That a dozen soft words should have bowled me over like a ninepin, and left me without an inch of ground to call my own.
Framley Parsonage
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The great wall of China's nothing but a line of ninepins to the Chugach and St. Elias wall.
The Rim of the Desert
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Mattie Ulrich's striking costumes included some that made of a bevy of nurses, escorting maimed soldiers, look like the ninepins that prompted Grete's flight from home.
Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley
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Now, this amiable duo of 19-year-olds, completed by Harley "Kicks" Alexander-Sule, are eyeing an ascent of the pop charts themselves, thanks in part to another ninepin effect – success by association.
Rizzle Kicks; Alex Clare – review
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No matter how cunningly Cat deployed his lifeless tin army, as soon as Roger's soldiers began to march, Cat's men fell over like ninepins.
CHARMED LIFE
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The transformation of ninepins to the tenpin game happened in North America, where the original game had also been introduced by the Dutch.
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It's just three weeks into the season and players are dropping like ninepins.
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He secured a seat in the Commons as one of Sir James Lowther's "ninepins," and speedily won the respect of the House.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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A set of tiny old ninepins with beautiful wormholes in them.
Summer Cleaning