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skittles

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skittles

English ninepin bowling game played with a wooden disk or ball. The pins are set in a diamond formation; the player who knocks down all the pins in the fewest throws wins. Skittles has been played for centuries in public houses and clubs.
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He looked with an indifferent eye, alike on skittles, cards, and dice, thinking only of the locksmith's daughter, and the base degenerate days on which he had fallen.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
"They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of skittles," said he in conclusion.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
At the appointed hour arrives the coroner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and who is received with a salute of skittles from the good dry skittle-ground attached to the Sol's Arms.
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