ninepins

‘They are all fifty feet high. They’d knock us down like ninepins!’

Melanie wasn’t sure they ought to use up one of Marshall’s tenpins; but April pointed out that there was nothing wrong with the game of ninepins.

Her sleek looks, and ability to flirt and make men laugh, saw them fall like ninepins at her high-heeled feet.

Records tumbled like ninepins as cinemas bruised by 2014's lacklustre takings got the perfect pick-me-up: namely, one must-see blockbuster after another.

“Haunted?” said I. “Yes, indeed. There’s an old story says there are little men up here who play ninepins right down in that gorge in the twilight.”