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  • It would come complete with thunder, lightning, and hail the size of golf-balls.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • So after tea Akela and some of them went down to the man who sells bats and golf-balls, down by the tennis-courts.

    Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light

  • Amy resigned her position without a murmur; but before she went she extracted two paintless, weary-looking golf-balls from the pocket of her mauve skirt and offered me them for sixpence.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 Various

  • A winding stream, which we subsequently found to be perfectly ubiquitous, and an insatiable devourer of errant golf-balls, ran deviously through the valley, which seemed to be rather over a mile long, and almost equally wide.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • The little muddy stream in which so many erring golf-balls lie low is up and out for a ramble over its banks.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • And here we must abandon the analogy of a game of skill, for whereas golf-balls have no interest except as things to be knocked about, the objects with which poet, dramatist or novelist deals are ideas, persons, associated things, having character and interest of their own.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • For years they had shared each other's sorrows, joys, and golf-balls, and sliced into the same bunkers.

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

  • I think my own flutter of twelve golf-balls, taken up by Percival Brown, was the most substantial of any of the wagers.

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

  • From the bowl of golf-balls on the mantelpiece she selected

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

  • Yet we see no decrease in the price of golf-balls, which, as I need scarcely inform you, are rubber-cored.

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

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