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• “Rufford; but as she did so she walked on through the broad passage which led from the front door into a wide central space which they called the billiard-room but which really was the hall of the house.”

  The American Senator

• “The balls are called billiard balls or pool balls.”

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• “She turned short round, and entered a large apartment at the head of the stairs, called the billiard-room, where she resolved to wait and watch ere she ventured any further.”

  Camilla

• “Torpid minds and flagging spirits require more active recreation, they require a spur, a fillip, an increase of vitality, and to meet these ends there cannot be any more desirable solution than the ones offered by the governors of Bedlamnamely, a billiard room for the men, and a ballroom for patients of either sex.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bedlam

• “Many gentlemen came to stop with papa, and papa had gotten a new game from London, a French game, called a billiard — that the French king played it very well: and the Dowager Lady Castlewood had sent”

  The History of Henry Esmond

• “That would work for many calculations involving perfect spheres - there's a reason that teachers often refer to billiard balls when talking about Newton's laws - but the moon isn't a perfect sphere, and its mass isn't evenly distributed around its geometric center.”

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• “My family was surprised when I was able to translate the word "billiard" from a sign on the street.”

  Family Visit

• “Along the back wall, behind the table, are two raised benches with two steps up to them, such as billiard rooms often have, divided by a door in the middle of a wall, which is panelled in oak.”

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• “The new paper, to appear in an upcoming Physical Review Letters, suggests a solution to this paradox: a kind of billiard-ball effect in which one sand particle knocks the next one into motion.”

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• “Unfortunately, this simple "billiard" model is not sufficient for explaining spiral microlasers, Hentschel says.”

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