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1. Dessert was served and enjoyed, the ladies adjourned to begin packing for the morrow's sailing, the gentlemen and Harry retired to the House Billiards room for cigars and less important banter
2. Harry had never played at billiards, but that condition was irrevocably changed after one evening at Chelsea House
3. “We’ve got a billiards room, a gymnasium and an indoor swimming pool
4. She was very meek and quiet this morning, but then we were up half the night with the other guests puttering about at various games, charades, billiards, you name it
5. Even though I got drunk (what a surprise) and ripped the felt covering of Jonas’ billiards table, he said not to worry, we shook hands and I thought we had clinched the deal
6. Joe had joined a Billiards club and would also play darts at the weekends
7. Both pool and billiards require considerable strategic thinking as well as spatial awareness – it is a far more involved and intellectual activity than many realize
8. They learned billiards, darts, bowling and a wide variety of card games
9. Reuben and Darius turned out to be nigh unto unbeatable at billiards
10. just couldn’t resist leaving their game at the billiards table
11. Alvin saw this, as the two billiards guys stopped their
12. billiards with some other guys before he had a chance to be introduced
13. New pool tables, billiards, live music, lots of neon lights, a dance floor, that sort of thing
14. When he arrived, some of the guys occupying the place just couldn’t resist leaving their game at the billiards table where they seemed to be playing a game of eight ball
15. Alvin saw this, as the two billiards guys stopped their game and looked straight over at Alvin
16. There was a bowling and billiards room in the south wing
17. Besides having round the clock access to bowling and billiards, he owned his own kickshellac that was fun to shoot birds with in the mornings after breakfast
18. suggested we try for the real thing; billiards up at the games hall
19. Determine whether the community has ample space for golf, badminton, billiards, fishing, etc
20. They had played a game of billiards and began drinking tea
21. , the billiard table in a restaurant and some officers playing billiards, the smell of cigars in some underground tobacco shop, a tavern room, a back staircase quite dark, all sloppy with dirty water and strewn with egg-shells, and the Sunday bells floating in from somewhere
22. "I have told you, friend," said the curate, "that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those who do not care, or are not obliged, or are unable to work, so books of this kind are allowed to be printed, on the supposition that, what indeed is the truth, there can be nobody so ignorant as to take any of them for true stories; and if it were permitted me now, and the present company desired it, I could say something about the qualities books of chivalry should possess to be good ones, that would be to the advantage and even to the taste of some; but I hope the time will come when I can communicate my ideas to some one who may be able to mend matters; and in the meantime, senor landlord, believe what I have said, and take your books, and make up your mind about their truth or falsehood, and much good may they do you; and God grant you may not fall lame of the same foot your guest Don Quixote halts on
23. I have billiards at home, but it's no fun unless you have good players, so, as I'm fond of it, I come sometimes and have a game with Ned Moffat or some of the other fellows
24. I only loved you all the more, and I worked hard to please you, and I gave up billiards and everything you didn't like, and waited and never complained, for I hoped you'd love me, though I'm not half good enough
25. He played billiards in the Mechanics' Hall
26. All the life that Bestwood offered he enjoyed, from the sixpenny-hops down Church Street, to sports and billiards
27. He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business
28. Having come home in the train with Newton, he called and had a game of billiards with him in the Moon and Stars
29. There was a screening room, a full gym, a locker room with sauna and steam room, a massage room, a wine cellar, a billiards room with both a pool table and a ping-pong table, a guest suite with full bath, a caterers’ kitchen at the base of the elevator, a stocked bar, and a seating area large enough to comfortably accommodate twenty people
30. With a formal dining room and an oyster bar, a billiards room, a full-featured gymnasium, a boathouse, every conceivable sort of athletic training equipment, trap-shooting facilities, a baseball diamond, a bowling alley, a boxing ring, tennis courts, squash courts, a cinder running track, Turkish baths, a swimming pool, a barbershop, valet services, and wide, sweeping lawns, it was, for all practical purposes, a country club for amateur athletes, as well as a prominent venue for Westchester County society events
31. Some chalk marks over the waistcoat pocket were the only signs of billiards which I could see in one of them
32. , the billiard table in a restaurant and some officers playing billiards,
33. Bambridge had been accommodating enough not only to trust him for the hire of horses and the accidental expense of ruining a fine hunter, but also to make a small advance by which he might be able to meet some losses at billiards
34. Lydgate, who had the muscular aptitude for billiards, and was fond of the game, had once or twice in the early days after his arrival in Middlemarch taken his turn with the cue at the Green Dragon; but afterwards he had no leisure for the game, and no inclination for the socialities there
35. Farebrother's residence in Middlemarch, where he was carrying out some parochial plans; and Fred, not seeing anything more agreeable to do, had turned into the Green Dragon, partly to play at billiards, partly to taste the old flavor of discourse about horses, sport, and things in general, considered from a
36. There could be no reason why he should not play at billiards, but he was determined not to bet
37. 8 March 1995) was 17 years 38 days old when he qualified for the 2012 World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) World Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, UK
38. These are beings of the great neuter species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the diligence, live at the cafe, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris through the medium of PontA-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, serve no use, and do no great harm
39. Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred of the Encyclopaedia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop in partibus of Caryste: "Mark, Abbe, I make a cannon
40. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had at the Cafe Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Cafe Voltaire, that good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes at the Barriere de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the Barriere du Com pat
41. That personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,—and perhaps because they appeared,—to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along the Pepiniere from time to time; the studious after their lectures, the others after their game of billiards
42. A cafe in the Rue SaintHyacinthe and the wine-shop of the Seven Billiards, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying points for the students
43. Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room
44. Fairfax if she had seen him;—yes: she believed he was playing billiards with Miss Ingram
45. He reestablished relations with his closest friends, and sometimes they played billiards or conversed in the outdoor cafés under the arches around the Plaza of the Cathedral, but he did not go back to the Saturday night dances: he could not conceive of them without her
46. You play off the sidelines, like billiards
47. I have quite as great an interest in being careful of his house as you can have; and as to such alterations as I was suggesting just now, such as moving a bookcase, or unlocking a door, or even as using the billiard-room for the space of a week without playing at billiards in it, you might just as well suppose he would object to our sitting more in this room, and less in the breakfast-room, than we did before he went away, or to my sister's pianoforte being moved from one side of the room to the other
48. , the billiard table in a restaurant and some officers playing billiards, the smell of cigars in some underground tobacco shop, a tavern room, a back staircase quite dark, all sloppy with dirty water and strewn with egg-shells, and the Sunday bells floating in from somewhere…
49. But by the end of the third game, Pyotr Ilyitch felt no more desire for billiards; he laid down the cue, and without having supper as he had intended, he walked out of the tavern
50. He did not play billiards, he sat in a corner, talked to no one