How To Use Ninepins In A Sentence
-
A set of tiny old ninepins with beautiful wormholes in them.
Summer Cleaning
-
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
-
Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer, as well as they.
-
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.
-
The great wall of China's nothing but a line of ninepins to the Chugach and St. Elias wall.
The Rim of the Desert
-
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.
-
Not much has changed since Connecticut banned ninepins in 1841.
-
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.
-
These are fluid times in pop, with barriers between musical genres falling like ninepins.
Rizzle Kicks; Alex Clare – review
-
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.
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.
-
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
-
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.
-
It's just three weeks into the season and players are dropping like ninepins.
-
The transformation of ninepins to the tenpin game happened in North America, where the original game had also been introduced by the Dutch.
-
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
-
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
-
The great wall of China's nothing but a line of ninepins to the Chugach and St. Elias wall.
The Rim of the Desert
-
Here was no commonplace, no Oakland Estuary, no weary round of throwing newspapers at front doors, delivering ice, and setting up ninepins.
Chapter 6
-
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
-
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
-
Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.
-
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.
-
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.
