A game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it.
1 Some children dressed in tattered brocades played at quoits on the outskirts.
2 Two old men were casting quoits ; a noisy quartette was playing shuffle-board.
3 The relaxations of the humbler class, are fives, quoits , skittles, and ale.
4 I like quoits myself and I should be sorry to interrupt you.
5 Broil it carefully and rare, then go and toss quoits with Hercules.
6 Morton and Browne hunted up four flat stones, and commenced pitching quoits .
7 But neither quoits nor Jenny Bierce sufficed at all times for forgetfulness.
8 I get up, breakfast, read, play at quoits , and go to bed.
9 Would any of the bigger boys like to play quoits better than cricket?
10 In the middle of the stone-flagged yard two little boys were playing at quoits .
11 T. J. is a carpenter, six foot four in height, and plays quoits well.
12 Jem and Jerry were playing quoits with old horseshoes borrowed from the Glen blacksmith.
13 Rubber quoits may be used instead of disks, if available.
14 He threw quoits on a table, and won for her two large, pale-blue hat-pins.
15 Elfgiva dropped the gilded quoits to wring her hands.
16 Rose appeared, pink from a game of deck quoits .
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