"Shinny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a dozen men and three boys," said she, "and the boys are the worst by a heap sight. Look at that, will you," holding up a darn with a bit of stocking attached. "That hole was made playing shinny." ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green
... get the notion in his head we're scared about it," he muttered; "but all the same I think we'd better shinny on our own side, ...
— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne
... in diameter. Some of them are artistically made, with heads of bone and horn, so that it is remarkable to what a distance they may be made to slide over the ground. In the feminine game of ball, which is something like "shinny," the ball is driven with curved sticks between two goals. It is played with from two or three to a hundred on a side, and a game between two bands or villages ...
— Indian Child Life • Charles A. Eastman
... hole in the roof," some one advised cheerfully. "You can crawl out on the top of the car and then shinny your way up to us. Or we'll let ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson |
