shuttlecock

How To Use shuttlecock In A Sentence

• Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
• To play at Shuttlecock methinks is the game now," says a character in The Two Maids of More Clacke, written by Robert Armin in 1609. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
• Am I the only one to remember Sjöberg from the Brunching Shuttlecocks site? EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A look to the future! Thanks to Wired!
• Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. Les Miserables
• He and I played games like marbles and shuttlecock and battledore.
• Every one promised, as it were, to be a battle-dore if I would be the other, and the shuttlecock was to be our letters, — egad! New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
• They tend to let the shuttlecock play them instead of attacking it.
• England, among so many battledores and such a poor shuttlecock; and the A Child's History of England
• Cann returned her serve and Hughes stood back, waiting and hoping the shuttlecock would drop the wrong side of the white line.
• He picked up the shuttlecock and we soon started a game, chatting amiably as we played.