"Ninepins" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come to the shady garden, where Auntie Kate was always so kind to them. There was always plenty of cakes and fruit and hoops and balls and croquet and tennis, ninepins and gymnastic appliances. On sunny afternoons gay laughter and shrieks used to ascend high up into the green tops of the pines, but—Kate noticed it with surprise—her boy, who was generally so wild, was the quietest of them all on those occasions. He did not care for those visits. ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... in every direction. Joan felt Cleve's strong arm around her—felt herself borne on a resistless tide of yelling, stamping, wrestling men. She had a glimpse of Kells's dark face drawing away from her; another of Gulden's giant form in Herculean action, tossing men aside like ninepins; another of weapons aloft. Savage, wild-eyed men fought to get into the circle whence that shot had come. They broke into it, but did not know then whom to attack or what to do. And the rushing of the frenzied miners all around soon disintegrated Kells's band and bore its several groups in every ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey |
