baized

It had, heaven help me, never occurred to me that what I called my thoughts needed to be "baized" on anything.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

It seemed to be considered in that place — that conceited boudoir of a first classe, with its pretentious book-cases, its green-baized desks, its rubbish of flower-stands, its trash of framed pictures and maps, and its foreign surveillante, forsooth! — it seemed to be the fashion to think there that the Professor of Literature was not worthy of a reply!

Villette 2003

On what had I based (but he pronounced it baized) my expectations about the Flora and Geology of Surrey?

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

Baseball and billiards are great games, but as life-quests -- except for the few consummately adapted players whose little orbit of powers finds completion in diamond or green-baized rectangle -- the excessive devotion to such play is desolating, indeed, and that which is given in return is fickle and puerile adulation.

Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

Murray McTavish was seated at a small table, green-baized, littered with account-books and a profusion of papers.

The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

American life puts on festal array, and the rumbling of the tenpin alley, and the crack of the ivory balls on the green-baized billiard tables, and the jolting of the bar-room goblets, and the explosive uncorking of champagne bottles, and the whirl and the rustle of the ball-room dance, and the clattering hoofs of the race-courses, attest that the season for the great American watering-places is fairly inaugurated.

New Tabernacle Sermons 1867

At a more elevated desk in the centre, sat a very fat and red-faced gentleman, in tortoise-shell spectacles, whose dignified appearance announced the judge; and round a long green-baized table below, something like a billiard-table without the cushions and pockets, were a number of very self-important-looking personages, in stiff neckcloths, and black gowns with white fur collars, whom we at once set down as proctors.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

It seemed to be considered in _that_ place -- that conceited boudoir of a first classe, with its pretentious book-cases, its green-baized desks, its rubbish of flower-stands, its trash of framed pictures and maps, and its foreign surveillante, forsooth!

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

Passing onward, Mr. Sponge came to a red-baized, brass-nailed door, which, opening freely on a patent spring, revealed the fine proportions of a light picture-gallery with which the bright mahogany doors of the entertaining rooms communicated.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

I'm baized and confused for so long it's not true.

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