1 And, sure enough, after his head had been bumped a few more times against the boot of the conveyance, Chichikov found himself bowling over softer ground.
2 Meanwhile, Chichikov, seated in his britchka and bowling along the turnpike, was feeling greatly pleased with himself.
3 Meanwhile our hero was bowling along in high spirit.
4 And all over the playgrounds they were playing rounders and bowling twisters and lobs.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 5 The fellows were practising long shies and bowling lobs and slow twisters.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 6 Many of the saloons in Packingtown had pool tables, and some of them bowling alleys, by means of which he could spend his evenings in petty gambling.
7 There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 8 He followed her and brought the other geraniums, the hyacinth bulbs in a cracked custard bowl and the German ivy trained over an old croquet hoop.
9 She picked up the bowl and hurled it viciously across the room toward the fireplace.
10 The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butler had been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins.
11 "It would not take more than six dozen to fill that bowl," she argued.
12 The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
13 Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 14 All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
15 Here they brought him more "duffers and dope," with the addition of a bowl of soup.