Ninepins or skittles is a number game, and one can score by using number groups, or by fetching counters, shells, beads, etc., as reminders.

But it is not to be concluded that it is all beer and skittles for Eve.

It was the only thing there to play at, except a set of skittles; and on those they had lost their money every Saturday night for the last seven years each at his own village beer-shop.

Mr. Howard, it was anything but beer and skittles for me then.

Out-of-doors there were bullocks roasted whole, barrels of cider and butts of ale set constantly flowing, with dancing, cricket, and Devonshire skittles, and other country games and comforts for the amusement of the peasantry.

Skittles are very popular.

Once on that slope, we could pretty well play skittles with the sangars below, as we could even now see clearly into them.

And the bowl and skittles there,the trim-waisted skittles, shapely maids, whose orderly quadrilles Patou in his gambols clumsily upsets!

Skittles; la Soule or Soulette, which consisted of a large ball of hay covered over with leather, the possession of which was contested for by two opposing sides of players; Football; open Tennis; Shuttlecock, &c.

His letters are full of little domestic joys, such as a ball lasting from six o'clock in the evening until seven in the morning,a game of skittles of which Constanze was especially fond,a concert where Aloysia sang with great success an aria Mozart wrote for her,and financial troubles of the most petty and annoying sort.

She ruthlessly curtailed our golf and skittles; She vetoed daily sprees and nightly jinks; She doled our baccy and weighed out our victuals, And watered (cruellest of all) our drinks.

These sports included horse-racing, coursing, cock-fighting, and such games as quoits, football, skittles, wrestling, dancing, jumping in sacks, and all the athletic exercises.

Then the children made the square their playground, or were driven into it because it was the safest place for them, and every Sunday afternoon the young men of Roc-Amadour met there to play at skittles.

He runs like a buck, leaps like a wild goat, and plays at skittles like a wizard.

But even this brought progress, and, when we had taken the outlying blockhouses, one by one, and there remained only the citadel, a flimsy fortress, mainly, I should judge, the work of the Servian kings, all that remained to accomplish was the bombardment of its walls, which became a sort of spectacle, to which we went day after day to watch the effect of the fire, as we should have done with a game of skittles.

He was reserved in company; and he used to walk alone by the shore of the lake, while other fellows played at fives or skittles; and when he visited the kitchen of the George, he had his liquor to himself, and in the midst of the general talk was a saturnine listener.

" In one of her prefaces she said: "Poetry has been to me as serious a thing as life itself,and life has been a very serious thing; there has been no playing at skittles for me in either.

Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse and the mistress were seeing company this afternoon, and the neighboring Kentish squires who had come to play skittles and to drink sack-posset might easily find a less welcome sight than that of the serving maid at Acol Court.

And there we played single-stick, smite-jacket, skittles, bowlsaye, and drank deep of the city alethe very thinnest brew that was ever passed by a bribed and muzzy ale-taster.

They taught me once and for all that an actress's life (even when the actress is only eight) is not all beer and skittles, or cakes and ale, or fame and glory.

But we do take it hard, that the jovial Luther, in the midst of his ale and skittles, should have deliberately censured Juvenal's mens sana in corpore sano, as a pagan maxim!

Have they got a billiard-table, do you happen to know?" The President says, "he doesn't know anything about that," and looks a little surprised, as if I had proposed a game of skittles.

It may not do dear Anne much good, but I guess it can't do her much harm anyway, and it was beer and skittles to me.

" "Skittles!" said Bertie rudely.

There is even epicurean asceticism, which asserts that beer and skittles are alone satisfying.