Balls

Examples

• The table was of the usual European style --cushions dead and twice as high as the balls; the cues in bad repair. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called _blooms_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When he was speaking of it in that way, I honestly said that _the_ _world_ I could give upparties, balls, playsfor I had no fear of retirement. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The explanation of this well-known fact is found in a further study of the elastic balls (Fig. 170). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The purpose is to take care of the misdirected balls that roll off the bed before reaching the pit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Take my ticker and such of your things as you can SPARE, and send them to Balls--we must, of coarse, have the sum to-night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very warlike aspect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Don't want none o' your light-colored balls, said Dinah; cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• As we got nearer, the cannon balls commenced going through the ranks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An important result of these changes is the use of elongated instead of round balls, this permitting of the employment of much heavier projectiles for the same width of bore. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The flanges easily accommodate the balls when placed on the chute by the pin boy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He made designs for firearms and experimented with guns to learn the carrying distance of various bores and balls. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The balls commenced to whistle very thick overhead, cutting the limbs of the chaparral right and left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Not from any ill-will to the poor girl: but---- He stopped there, and going back to the billiard-table, began to knock the balls about once more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A field of outsiders are always going in to bowl at the Public Service, and we block the balls. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You spoke of the balls at Northampton. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The cue was still in my hand, and I went on knocking the balls about, to take off the awkwardness of the thing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You would have heard of balls and parties. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Among the more familiar products of coal tar or petroleum are moth balls, carbolic acid, benzine, vaseline, and paraffine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Ballshad they balls? Jane Austen. Emma.
• They have brought cannon balls, broken ramrods, fragments of shell--iron enough to freight a sloop. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The inventor na?vely states that it has round chambers for round balls, designed for Christians, and square chambers, with square balls, for the Turks. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Mercury in powder is in no want of society to-night, for my Lady goes to a grand dinner and three or four balls. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The energy finally given becomes too slight to affect neighboring balls, and the system comes to rest. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This is to reduce to a minimum the sound of the balls dropping on and rolling down the bed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The shells and balls whistled about our ears very fast for about a minute. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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