In the early days of Cricketers, the pub where I grew up, I remember my dad used to serve a whopping great burger the size of a cricket-ball topped with a huge amount of Cheddar cheese and homemade tomato relish. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The ship danced like a cricket-ball, and the pilgrims howled with fright, and six died. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Tom kept Harkaway all to himself, and won the second prize in the lottery, some thirty shillings, which he and East contrived to spend in about three days in the purchase of pictures for their study, two new bats and a cricket-ball — all the best that could be got — and a supper of sausages, kidneys, and beef-steak pies to all the rebels. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
Miss Mitford, in one of her charming sketches, tells us of a cricket-ball being thrown five hundred yards. ❋ Various (N/A)
Salisbury, and Reginald, Louis was duly initiated; and after a couple of hours 'play they returned home, Louis being in some doubt as to whether his fingers were not all broken by the concussion of a cricket-ball, but otherwise more favorably disposed towards the game than heretofore. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He let fly with such vengeance, that the cricket-ball was found embedded in a bank of clay five hundred yards off, as if it had been a cannon shot. ❋ Various (N/A)
Latin sentence; you leave it among your garments when you plunge into the river, it rolls away from the rolling cricket-ball, the first whirl in the gymnasium disposes of it, and you are left free, as boys and birds are free. ❋ Various (N/A)
He now put his algebra and papers into his bureau, took out his cricket-ball and ran down-stairs and round to the fields. ❋ Lewis Hough (N/A)
FIRST COMMISSIONER, speaking no doubt from personal experience, expressed the view that there was considerably more danger from a cricket-ball. ❋ Various (N/A)
The ball used on these occasions is a little smaller than a cricket-ball, and has a coating of silver; it is inscribed with the verse -- ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The balls, which are of the size of a large cricket-ball, are made of leather, and are so heavy, that, when well played, they are capable of breaking the arm, unless properly received on the _bracciale_. ❋ Various (N/A)
A goblin blew on them with a pair of bellows out of which came green smoke, and they at once went down to the size of a cricket-ball. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1943)
Her mood of forgiving love for the village, which the cricket-ball had interrupted, had been so real that she felt as if a pact had been established between it and her, and she was quite sure that she would be safe from the boys there. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
She bought him a box of wonderfully varied chocolate and a box of tools, a very beautiful bat and a cricket-ball and a set of stumps, and a beetle-backed paint-box in which all the colours were whole pans, and not half ones, as they usually are in the boxes you get as presents. ❋ Edith (1923)
Then, when the steward had been dismissed to fetch a rare liqueur, Mr. Sheridan laughed, and tossed and caught the jewel, as though he handled a cricket-ball. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
The pendulum has indeed swung across from those days to these of the hockey-girl, not to mention the girl who throws a cricket-ball and bowls very creditably overhand. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Coper -- oh, beyond the world Tom Coper, the red-headed gardening lad, whose left-handed strokes send _her_ (a cricket-ball is always of the feminine gender) send her spinning a mile, 9; Harry Willis, another blacksmith, 10. ❋ Various (1909)
William Grey made a hit which actually lost the cricket-ball. ❋ Various (1909)
But I don't, because it was my rotten cricket-ball that stopped up the pipe and caused the midnight flood in our bedroom. ❋ Edith (1901)
