Marbles
[mɑ:blz]
Definition
(noun.) a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass).
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Examples
- This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is built entirely of precious marbles, brought from the Orient --nothing in its composition is domestic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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