ninepins

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Later we passed in succession the Bet, Sue, and Poll Islands, and the Ninepin Rock, a curious-shaped little islet, though anything less like a ninepin I cannot imagine.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

If you'd said, 'Would you mind telling me the time?' he'd have gone down like a ninepin.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Certain of the men have huge dilly-bags made of strips of lawyer-cane, and shaped like a ninepin with a funnel for a head.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Lenz had never had in his hand a card or a ninepin ball,--those consumers of time and low spirits.

From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold

To-morrow Sara and I dine at Mister Gobwin's, as Hartley calls him, who gave the philosopher such a rap on the shins with a ninepin that Gobwin in huge pain lectured Sara on his boisterousness.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George