tennis-net

I heard her address a minatory remark within the room to "Racket" -- most excellently described, I thought; though I discovered later that I had, in imagination, misspelt him, since he owed his name to the fact that his mother had sought her delivery on the bed of a stored tennis-net.

The Jervaise Comedy 1910

Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and flaming sunflowers.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

Mrs. Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and flaming sunflowers.

Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906

And there were the subalterns at the tennis-net with Norah, doing unnecessary things to the net and trying _not_ to look at him.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

They occupied the large centre-table which has for many a year been the point of contact for the distinguished minds of which the membership of "The Heraclean" is made up; the tennis-net, as it were, over which the verbal balls of discussion have for so many years volleyed to the delight of countless listeners.

R. Holmes & Co. John Kendrick Bangs 1892

Green pine-cones take the place of balls; hands, of rackets; and branches, of tennis-net.

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

At the other end of exclusivity, in Ibiza, I have played in the orange heat on private clay courts: usually slightly run-down, often spectacularly located with a view of glitter-blue ocean in the distance, like a high-summer, Balearic remix of Louis MacNeice's line from "Autumn Journal": "And each rich family boasts a sagging tennis-net."

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At the other end of exclusivity, in Ibiza, I have played in the orange heat on private clay courts: usually slightly run-down, often spectacularly located with a view of glitter-blue ocean in the distance, like a high-summer, Balearic remix of Louis MacNeice's line from "Autumn Journal": "And each rich family boasts a sagging tennis-net."

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Norah at the tennis-net quivering with excitement, and (by the time

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

There are some words which I am unable to endure, such as salt-cellar, tuberculosis, tennis-net and den. "

If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson Barry Pain 1896