Let's start with a bagatelle I found when browsing through the Oxford Book of English Verse. |
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Nineteenth century bagatelle floor standing tables required cue sticks to propel ivory balls. |
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We get buffeted through life like a ball-bearing in a bagatelle, bouncing off chance encounters, opportunities, unforeseen obstacles. |
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Their winning goal typified the game, a piece of bash-bash bagatelle executed mostly in the air. |
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William finally holed out for twelve after playing bagatelle with a few trees, a rabbit hole and a water hazard that no-one had noticed before. |
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He's flipped that in the mixer, there's a crowd scene in there and it's bagatelle football with the ball pinging around. |
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Then Richard Butler took advantage of a bout of defensive bagatelle only to dribble his shot wide of the target. |
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The ten mill was a bagatelle, Rick said, considering what he could guarantee Tricia for the first three years. |
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I'm pretty shy and not that aggressive, so this is kind of a big deal to me, even if others might see it as a mere bagatelle. |
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It was missing only a certain small gesture on Lance's part, a mere bagatelle. |
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This is a mere bagatelle by the standards on BBC Online sites, clocking in excess of 80 million a month, but it's still not at all bad. |
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But that cup successes have already become a mere bagatelle to the midfielder points to him having a veteran's outlook to honours. |
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He certainly opens himself up to accusations of being so careless with the truth that it is a mere bagatelle to him. |
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Playing 49 people in the course of one performance is, of course, a mere bagatelle for this man. |
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Today's bagatelle is a familiar tune played by The Torero Band featuring the arrangements of Moorhouse. |
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There's enough material here perhaps for a half-hour bagatelle, but Brooke fatally draws things out well beyond that. |
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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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Ron's obsession with bagatelle could only come from an experienced practitioner of the old game. |
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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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A game of bagatelle then ensued as first Murray and then Barry Ferguson had efforts blocked. |
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You watch him, and you find yourself picturing the latest shot whizzing round his body, like a silver ball in a bagatelle. |
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A mere bagatelle, one would have thought, to such a material girl. |
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Last week's controversy over the standard of Scottish refereeing is a mere bagatelle compared to the state of anguish they get into at that most fevered game, cricket. |
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Such a sacrifice is a mere bagatelle to the committed journalist. |
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Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle. |
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Compared with most large projects, this is a bagatelle, but the surreptitiously radical design that makes such poetic sense of the pixel is a gutsy move. |
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Deneuve probably intended A L' ombre de Moi-meme, a collection of personal thoughts from the sets of her films, to be a mere bagatelle, an amuse-bouche for a curious reader. |
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On countless occasion, Jim Jeffries' men seemed to be caught up in penalty box bagatelle in their visitors area, the Inverness defence stretched like the skin of a drum. |
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And as for talent, you've talent plenty at bagatelle and charming women. |
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For an ordinary intellect, yes, but for me a mere bagatelle, or bag-of-shells, as the ancients have it. |
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They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there. |
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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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Bagatelle games are normally played with 1 black ball and either 8 whites or 4 whites and 4 reds. |
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For 250 NP you can try your luck at the old Bagatelle stand. |
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One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven. |
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Each Bagatelle expresses a different mood using experiments in tonality and form in which the Lekkers revelled. |
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It opens the floodgates for the likes of All Star Bagatelle and Shove Ha'penny Lucky Stars. |
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