billiard-tables

There are billiard-tables overturned upon the land;--there are sofas, pianos, footstools and music-stools, luxurious chairs, lounges of bamboo.

A Memory of Last Island Beach Blogger 2005

There are billiard-tables overturned upon the land;--there are sofas, pianos, footstools and music-stools, luxurious chairs, lounges of bamboo.

Archive 2005-08-01 Beach Blogger 2005

Crowds walking up and down, bars lighted up, theatres going on, dance-houses in full swing, billiard-tables where you could hear the balls clicking away till daylight; miners walking down to their night shifts, others turning out after sleeping all the afternoon quite fresh and lively; half-a-dozen troopers clanking down the street, back from escort duty.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

He would go at once to that happy foreign shore, where the memory of no father would follow him, where the presence of no sister would degrade and irritate him, where billiard-tables were rife, and brandy cheap; where virtue was easy, and restraint unnecessary; where no duties would harass him, no tenants upbraid him, no duns persecute him.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

These family friends, I may perhaps add, were generally markers at billiard-tables, head grooms at race-courses, or other men of that sharp, discerning class.

Castle Richmond 2004

Beargarden had the best wines — or thought that it had — and the easiest chairs, and two billiard-tables than which nothing more perfect had ever been made to stand upon legs.

The Way We Live Now 2004

It but bears out your saying, too; churches more plentiful than billiard-tables, and for ever open-and

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The two billiard-tables were covered with their dustcloths.

Maigret's Little Joke Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1960

He was squinting across at the two billiard-tables with a childish longing to play.

Maigret's Little Joke Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1960

The Spotswood, Exchange and American held beds at a high premium in the parlors, halls and even on the billiard-tables.

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