Such a blaze of light met my eyes when I went to dinner that I was quite bewilderedboudoir, billiard-room, dining-room (very large, the small round table for one person hardly perceptible), and corridors all lighted "a giorno."

Francis, half pacified, was seated on the billiard-table, an old grey-haired huissier, who was always on duty up-stairs, taking care of him.

Watch it, and you see something that seems to uncurl and expand like a feather with exultation and delight and joy, to contract and stiffen into a billiard ball with fear and pride, shrewd caution and vigilant malevolence, to rear back and spark fire like lightning with anger and temper, and to crawl and slither with abjection and smirking slyness, when it needs to.

I had "nursed" my buffaloes, as a billiard-player does the balls when he makes a big run.

Bill was carrying the butt end of a billiard cue for a cane, and bending over the table, he said: "You'd rob a blind man."

He extorted from his mother a large allowance, which he spent at bars and billiard saloons, and one day was brought home drunk by a schoolfellow.

An imp in white and red livery, Pêng, the little billiard-marker from the club, stood hurling things violently into the outer glare.

We're going to take lunch and finish up our billiard tournament.

In his left hand he waved the stub of a cigar, and on his back was an admirable representation of Balaam's head, executed by some artist with billiard chalk.

" Heywood pitched his cap on the green field of the billiard-cloth.

Some of the buildings were of stone; a large private house with a castellated tower was of stone; there were shops, and a post-office, stores, a restaurant and billiard-hall, and warehouses for matte, of which much is grown in the region roundabout.

BEAU CLARK, a billiard-maker at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

On another day he might have gone to a billiard match at his club, or have hung round the corner for a girl who smiled at him as he left the factory, or might have sat on his bed and ground at a chapter of Marx or Hobson.

When he speaks of his billiard-pupils, he loftily denominates them "hundreds of the best gentlemen-players scattered over the earth's surface," from which we draw the pleasing inference that none of John Brown's scholars are addicted to subterranean billiards.