nine-pins

We keep going down like nine-pins, and then a new round starts.

Matters of Viral Importance 2008

As I fired, I saw the enemy mown down in rows, dropping like nine-pins; but as the men killed were killed in rear of the front rank, after firing about forty rounds eight turns of the lever, I lowered the elevation.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Of course, Clinton could come through next week and the nine-pins could fall the other way.

Mayhill Fowler: Pennsylvania Voters Dismiss Obama's Momentum 2008

Talking with some of the crowd in the bowling alley parking lot, I watched husbands and wives fall for Obama like nine-pins -- and this was even before he emerged from his evening of "four gutter balls and a strike" to shake hands.

Mayhill Fowler: Pennsylvania Voters Dismiss Obama's Momentum 2008

And being here at home again, who is a more fit companion for money-diggers? and what pen but his has made Rip Van Winkle, playing at nine-pins on that thundering afternoon, as much part and parcel of the

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like nine-pins.

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Never was seen on this side of the big hills a man fit to walk in the tracks of Uncle Sam, so large and good-hearted according to his lights, hard as a grizzly bear for a man to milk him, but soft in the breastbone as a young prairie-hen for all folk down upon their nine-pins.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Perthshire, for me to troll them down with a die, though I have seen whole forests go down like nine-pins.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The rector being struck by this exception to the ways of childhood — whose manner it is to take chess-men for “dollies,” or roll them about like nine-pins — at once included in the education of “Izunsabe,” which he took upon himself, a course of elemental doctrine in the one true game.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

In vain did I fly for refuge to the amusements of the place, and engage in the parties of Jackson at cards, billiards, nine-pins, and fives; a train of melancholy thoughts took possession of my soul, which even the conversation of Melopoyn could not divert.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004