billiard-balls

You can compose binary messages out of black and white billiard-balls and send them to the station of your choosing by setting the address-billiard-balls!

Boing Boing 2006

A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in the cafes.

Les Miserables 2008

Quiet the Great Place, and quiet the never-stirring streets; closed the cafes; huddled together motionless their billiard-balls; drowsy the guard or sentinel on duty here and there; lulled for the time, by sleep, even the insatiate appetite of the Office of Town-dues.

Somebody's Luggage 2007

And there he walks, and there the billiard-balls rattle, long after we are fast asleep.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Their skins are like parchment, and baggy; their heads as bald as billiard-balls.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The sun had sunk behind trees, the pigeons were perched, quite still, on the edge of the dove-cot; the click of the billiard-balls mounted, and a faint radiance shone out below where

To Let 2004

The click of billiard-balls came from the ingle-nook — Jack Cardigan, no doubt; a faint rustling, too, from an eucalyptus-tree, startling Southerner in this old English garden.

To Let 2004

On reaching home he heard the click of billiard-balls; and through the window saw young Mont sprawling over the table.

To Let 2004

They roll away the droppings of cattle at once, in round pieces often as large as billiard-balls; and when they reach a place proper by its softness for the deposit of their eggs and the safety of their young, they dig the soil out from beneath the ball till they have quite let it down and covered it: they then lay their eggs within the mass.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

There he came — from the drawing-room, crossing the verandah, down the lawn; and the click of billiard-balls which, in listening for other sounds, she had ceased to hear, began again.

To Let 2004