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Of the cricket-ground or racket-court I was allowed to know nothing.

An Autobiography 2004

Of the cricket-ground or racket-court I was allowed to know nothing.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883

At the back of this quadrangle was another long low building, in the same picturesque style as the rest, which, Mrs. Gray explained, contained on one side a charming little theatre which could also be used as a ball-room, and on the other an admirable bowling-alley and racket-court for the use of the members.

A Little Country Girl Susan Coolidge 1870

Let us come and hear -- for we have put on our cap of darkness and are invisible, coming and going where we like, unobserved -- what our four fast friends at the racket-court are talking about.

St. Winifred's, or The World of School 1867

Along the northwestern side were a number of yards and buildings, the racket-court, the sheep-pens, the slaughter-house, the cattle-yard, a storehouse for the food for the cattle, and a guardhouse; and behind them stood a strong building known as Ommaney's house, guarded by a deep ditch and cactus hedge, and defended with two pieces of artillery.

In Times of Peril 1867

He had a racket in a racket-court at St. John's Wood Road, and as soon as fortune and merit increased his salary by another £100 a year, he usually had a nag for the season.

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

We had several lecture-rooms besides; and then the large old courtyard served as a capital playground in wet weather, as well as a racket-court; and in one corner of it we had our gymnasium, which was one of the many capital things belonging to the school.

Ernest Bracebridge School Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The area formed by the wall in that part of the Fleet in which Mr. Pickwick stood was just wide enough to make a good racket-court; one side being formed, of course, by the wall itself, and the other by that portion of the prison which looked (or rather would have looked, but for the wall) towards St. Paul's Cathedral.

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

The area formed by the wall in that part of the Fleet in which Mr. Pickwick stood was just wide enough to make a good racket-court; one side being formed, of course, by the wall itself, and the other by that portion of the prison which looked (or rather would have looked, but for the wall) towards St. Paul's Cathedral.

The Pickwick papers 1836

Several contemporary writers, as well as general tradition, state that, on occasion of one of the various embassies sent to and fro between the courts of London and Paris, the Dauphin, then about eighteen or nineteen years of age, sent an insulting present (p. 109) to Henry of a tun of tennis-balls, with a message full of contempt and scorn, [84] implying that a racket-court was a more fit place for him than a battle-field.

Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820