On the streets youngsters improvise toys, carving tin cars from US AID containers, or play skittles with empty shells cases. |
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One of the games was the most beautiful game with multiple intricate brass fitments and little bells to ring as well as skittles to topple. |
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Up in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, balls, often roughly hewn and traditionally of applewood, are used to topple skittles that are club shaped. |
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And, I'll have you know, you are now reading the village champion of the knocking the skittles down with a cricket ball game! |
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In the evening festivities got under way with a barbecue, fish and chip supper and skittles match at the Rose and Crown pub on Lower High Street. |
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For the elderly, the late life period is not one of beer and skittles, but rather one of transition and adjustment to loss. |
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On the field, they tug their opponents' shirts and fall over like skittles at the slightest contact. |
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More than 100 members meet fortnightly at Woodborough Social Club and enjoy skittles, pool, bingo and disco dancing. |
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There were lots of stalls and games, including darts, skittles and a hoopla. |
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Members enjoyed a variety of games, bingo, skittles and a guess the baby competition as well as a drinks reception. |
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The last time I recall going there was in about 1983, to play a game of skittles. |
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Graham used to like playing the odd game of skittles but apart from that they were always together. |
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Activities range from bingo and skittles to discos, barbecues and occasional outings. |
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Alex was a real livewire and had loads of energy and many a happy time we had playing football and skittles. |
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His local was the West End Working Men's Club, in Audley Road, Chippenham, and he enjoyed playing darts, pool, skittles and bingo. |
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Residents are being called to St Nicholas Church, Southfleet, to sample strawberries and play old fashioned skittles and bowls. |
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While other mums may let their children win the odd game of dominoes or throw the occasional game of skittles, I always try to win. |
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I could have dealt with this one, put everything back on track, and then la-de-day, all would be skittles and beer. |
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If either of the two white skittles are knocked over, the break finishes and any points made during it are lost. |
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The large skittle is presumably a king pin as featured in some of the modern versions of skittles. |
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Pete E and Tom wisely moved out the way as they would have been knocked over like skittles! |
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They will each be given a turkey and asked to bowl it down the ice towards some skittles. |
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He ran the length of the pitch, knocking Leigh defenders down like skittles to score a sensational try and claim victory for Keighley. |
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We have been falling over like skittles and that's one game we probably could have done with playing when it was scheduled for. |
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It seems more likely, however, that the biased ball is just an alternative solution to try to reduce the amount of space needed for the skittles game. |
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We learn how entire families polished, assembled, painted, soaked and bound whistles and skittles by the thousand. |
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Its many variations include duckpins, candlepins, fivepins, skittles, and ninepins, with differences within the framework of each of the games. |
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So I thought of various shapes and I chose an aeroplane with a simple base which could receive 6 skittles of different shapes. |
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Apart from hitting myself on the face with a racket, I realized that even skittles didn't want me anymore. |
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However, you don't have to knock over the skittles, just aim for the little animals that try to get closer. |
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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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The skittles set comprised six plastic bowling pins and two plastic balls. |
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When a deal is about to close at work, is there always a bag of skittles within reach? |
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And when I passed the refreshment stand on the way out of the theater, I could not help but think of skittles. |
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His ferocious straight drives scattered the non-striker, umpire and bowler like so many skittles. |
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Traditional games include kubb, a form of lawn skittles, said to have been played in Sweden since Viking times. |
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And as he said, working in China isn't all beer and skittles. |
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One of their pastimes was to play skittles with round stones. |
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So there you go, it's not all beer and skittles being top dog. |
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It would have involved bowling frozen turkeys down the ice at skittles. |
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Sunday knocked us down like skittles and we decided it was time to go. |
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In the picturesque name, the 'devil' refers to the ball and the 'tailors' are the skittles. |
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Mexico, where Emperor Maximilian had installed a skittles alley in Chapultepec Castle a century earlier, joined the tenpin trend, as did other Latin American countries. |
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He has, in fact, been knocking down skittles for quite a long time. |
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The game of skittles also gradually became popular. |
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They could play games, of course, but soon tired of cards and skittles. |
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A fortnight ago I was asked to make a new game of skittles. |
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Accommodation of white storks on granitic skittles. |
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The noise of their games with the rocks resounded into the valley and this gave rise to the lower valley peasants to say that the demons were playing skittles. |
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We also have big sized river skittles and holed rocks. |
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As a subset of pub games, pub sports include traditional pastimes such as darts, billiards, and skittles. |
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The game bears some resemblance to a coconut shy, or skittles. |
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