Boniface College, Oxbridge — a rattling, forward, and it must be owned, vulgar youth — asked me whether Florac was not a billiard-marker by profession? and was even so kind as to caution his sisters not to speak of billiards before the lady of Rosebury. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Then Captain Lake asked to see the billiard-marker, who was likely to know something about him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The billiard-marker at his club knows his haunts; and I have taken the liberty to employ, through him, several persons who are acquainted with his appearance, and, at my desire, frequent those places with a view to discovering him, and bringing about an interview with me. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It remained under the direction of Mr. Arthur till his death in 1761, and then passed into the control of Robert Mackreth, who had begun his career as a billiard-marker in the establishment. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He worked as billiard-marker for his food, and as much alcohol as he could get. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)
I have known people who have resided in France for years and never once had occasion to ask a billiard-marker if he would "_Envoyer-nous des crachoirs_." ❋ Various (N/A)
Glyndewi in 18 --, the sighs of our late partners were positively heart-rending, and the blank faces of the deserted billiard-marker and solitary livery-stable 'groom' haunt me to this day. ❋ Various (N/A)
I recollect the billiard-marker at one of the Christchurch hotels was the younger son of a baronet. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)
He would eventually become a billiard-marker; and might ultimately be hanged, with general approval. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had been a schoolmaster dismissed from his school for a grave offence; he had been a billiard-marker; he had walked the streets of Brussels in a frock-coat and tall hat, a "guide" on the lookout for young foreigners who wished to enjoy the more dubious pleasures of the city. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Yes, for us who are denied the admiration of the billiard-marker; denied the devotion of the barmaid (with charming paradox so-called); for us who make poor braggarts, and often prefer to surrender rather than to elbow for our rights; for us who deliver our opinions with mean-spirited diffidence, and are men of quiet voices and ways: for us there is hope. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
In fact, he will think that my wanting to become a musician is much the same thing as if I wanted to become a billiard-marker. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Other callings he had sampled: had tramped through Ireland with a fiddle; through Scotland with a lecture on Palestine, assisted by dissolving views; had been a billiard-marker; next a schoolmaster. ❋ Unknown (1893)
"If so, I would suggest sending it upstairs to the billiard-marker." ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)
If you do graciously condescend to take work, you must have a job in an office, in the Russian choir, or as a billiard-marker, where you will have a salary and have nothing to do! ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
In the course of a very brief career he had been a provincial actor, a _manège_ rider in a circus, a billiard-marker, and a betting agent. ❋ Unknown (1875)
The billiard-marker of "L'Hotel Soult" had vanished as completely as -- well, as Mr Ratman. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
As a matter of fact, if the billiard-marker at "L'Hotel Soult" was the man, they had already traced him down to a date long subsequent to that of his rumoured death. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
Hither Roger tracked him, and after dogged search, often baffled, sometimes apparently hopeless, discovered some one who remembered the reputed son of the old couple, who, as far as this witness could remember, was thought to have hired himself out as billiard-marker in an hotel in one of the southern suburbs of the city. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
He found himself able to nod familiarly to the barmaid, and fancied that even Mortimer must have approved of the way in which he ordered about the billiard-marker. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
