Type of bowling popular in central Europe.
1 We simply cannot stand against them; we go down like nine-pins .
2 A great part of the afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley.
3 These were a couple of enormous balls, and nine-pins as tall as a man.
4 They played nine-pins , ate crabs with dill, drank punch, and, above everything, sang songs.
5 My Lord and we at nine-pins : I lost 9s.
6 Edith has kept up her gymnastics, and even taught her to row and play nine-pins .
7 We are not willingly put out of our way, even at a game of nine-pins .
8 Eight hundred and seventy-eighth day, nine - pins counted "one, one, one," etc.
9 If we hadn't been very large, sturdy persons we might have tumbled over like nine-pins .
10 It got its name because in the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers used it for playing nine - pins .
11 STRIKE:} terms of the game of STRING:} nine-pins .
12 He bowled 'em over like nine-pins .
13 He said that he had been playing at nine-pins with railways, which was good enough sport for him.
14 The game of nine-pins is a favourite game in America, and very superior to what it is in England.
15 My friends fell off from me; ay, they fell like nine - pins whenever I could get within reach of them.
16 There was barely time to camp before the gale became furious, raging all night, and throwing down tents like nine-pins .
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