spillikin

1 And on the floor nearby is a heap of maulsticks arranged like spillikins, or pick-up sticks – remove one and the whole circle would be disturbed.

2 “It’s all in spillikins in the back garden.”

3 So there was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins.

4 These words are evidently of the same class, though not of the same species with bishopric, colewort, spillikin, gossip, mainswearer, &c.

5 It's so very difficult to play a game with a spillikin on one side and a sledge-hammer on the other.'

6 Then on another evening we might encourage the men to play progressive games like draughts, halma, picture lotto, spillikins, ping-pong, and beggar-my-neighbour.

7 All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favourable openings.

8 Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen.

9 At the Prime Minister's right, Sir John Elphinspoon, no longer agitated, but sustained and dignified by the responsibility of his office, was playing spillikins.

10 One writer compares the structure to a bundle of spillikins.

11 These rocks, these blocks, these peaks, these streaks, these cones, these cracks, these ramparts, these escarpments,—what are they but a set of spillikins, though I acknowledge on a grand scale?

12 Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it vigorously, though with occasional qualms as to the lawfulness of the process.

13 I throw in this explanation of "spillikins" to fill up a somewhat long and painful pause during which Cai and 'Bias without speech slowly questioned one another.

14 Weymouth, a hundred and eighty years ago, was about as symmetrical as a game of spillikins in confusion.

15 Leap frog is not too heavy for me and spillikins not too light.

16 All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favorable openings.

17 And anon, when his victim had steeled himself against this method, he could extract another five-pound note from his little hoard with the delicacy of one playing spillikins.

18 Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it viciously, though with occasional qualms as to the lawfulness of the process.

1 小碎片

snippet chipping orts

2 木棒

waddy

3 碎片

fractional chipping flinders smithereens tag chip spell patch fraction scrap debris fragment shred rag snippet raffle shard snip splinter sliver shrapnel matchwood sippet

4 尖片

skelf