But, since you have this theory of life, you may not despise any one or any thing, not even a skittle-alley, for they are all threaded to you, and to despise them would be to blaspheme against continuity, and to blaspheme against continuity would be to deny Eternity. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That Italian gentleman of the world, with his bowler hat, his skittle-alley, his gramophone, who had planted himself down in this temple of wild harmony, was he not Progress itself — the blind figure with the stomach full of new meats and the brain of raw notions? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Why, then, despise the skittle-alley, the gramophone, those expressions of the spirit of my friend in the billy-cock hat? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Blonde, the flesh and bone, without which the master brain must still have lain stranded, were to have a grand supper in the covered skittle-alley, as the joints came away from their betters, this lower deck being in command of Captain Tugwell, who could rouse up his crew as fast as his lordship roused his officers. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Sweeping a glance over the skittle-alley, he sent forth a long puff of smoke; then, turning to my companion (of the politer sex) with the air of one who has made himself perfect master of a foreign tongue, he smiled, and spoke. ❋ Unknown (2004)
To the familiar simplicity of that Italian building there were not lacking signs of a certain spiritual change, for out of the olive-grove which grew to its very doors a skittle-alley had been formed, and two baby cypress-trees were cut into the effigies of a cock and hen. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This man, a Christian, had formerly been a weaver of velvet, but finding that a living could not in any way be made out of it, in an evil hour he was tempted to go into a skittle-alley as a helper. ❋ Clara M. S. Lowe (N/A)
When I finally grew tired of waiting I stepped through a lattice gate, always hanging aslant and always creaky, into a garden plot running along close by the skittle-alley and parallel with it. ❋ Various (N/A)
There was a much frequented skittle-alley there, where women played as well as men. ❋ Various (N/A)
There were two bowling-greens in it, and a skittle-alley. ❋ A Nonagenarian (N/A)
Out in the compound is a skittle-alley, where the boys stroll and play; and costumes, people, and setting have all the appearance of the _ensemble_ of a cheap revue. ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)
Down on one side of the forecourt ran a skittle-alley, with benches along it and little wooden tables marked with rings that hinted at beer-mugs. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Look at it, sproiled about the quay-edge like a skittle-alley in a cyclone! ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
With this he opened a door upon the left and led the way through a dark passage to a covered skittle-alley at the back of the house. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
But, since you have this theory of life, you may not despise any one or any thing, not even a skittle-alley, for they are all threaded to you, and to despise them would be to blaspheme against continuity, and to blaspheme against continuity would be to deny ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Yes -- in the skittle-alley a gentleman was standing who wore a bowler hat, ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
That Italian gentleman of the world, with his bowler hat, his skittle-alley, his gramophone, who had planted himself down in this temple of wild harmony, was he not Progress itself -- the blind figure with the stomach full of new meats and the brain of raw notions? ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Thanks to the skittle alley behind [Holmstead], [sneaking] up on someone is very [difficult]. ❋ Kirupa Chinnathambi (2007)
