| Rip Van Winkle is an amiable farmer who wanders into the Catskill Mountains, where he comes upon a group of dwarfs playing ninepins. |
| According to information received at The Register, the regional aggregation boards are falling like ninepins. |
| At Lourdes priests in vestments were seen falling like ninepins at the close of a ceremony in a chapel. |
| However, with back-row players going down like ninepins on tour, wasn't he convinced he would get the call? |
| Officers also spent their spare time playing cards, dice, chess, checkers, backgammon and ninepins, in addition to going hunting and fishing. |
| Had any one had the courage to do so, they would have gone down like a row of ninepins. |
