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Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a smartish letter, considering my want of materials but, like my dear Dr. Johnson, I believe I have dealt more in notions than facts[165 Southampton: [Friday, February 20, 1807 We have at last heard something of Mr Austen's[166] will.— Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
Her hand-writing was both strong and pretty; her hemming and stitching, over which she spent much time, 'might have put a sewing-machine to shame'; and at games, like spillikins or cup-and-ball, she was invincible If this description does not seem to imply so wide a mental outlook as we wish to see in a distinguished author, we must remember that Jane Austen (as her nephew tells us) 'lived in entire seclusion from the literary world,' and probably 'never was in company with any person whose talents or whose celebrity equalled her own.— Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
Also, you can make astonishing play with it if you happen to possess a pretty wrist and hand I throw in this explanation of "spillikins" to fill up a somewhat long and painful pause during which Cai and 'Bias without speech slowly questioned one another.— Hocken and Hunken
"I was dreaming," I replied Another time, when Monsieur Origet had announced positively that the count was convalescent, I was lying with Jacques and Madeleine on the step of the portico intent on a game of spillikins which we were playing with bits of straw and hooks made of pins; Monsieur de Mortsauf was asleep.— The Lily of the Valley
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