This was why: Before Sabol left, the two played a backyard game called quoit, similar to horseshoes. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
Empedocles, that the figure of it resembles a quoit. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Drooping like Hyacinthus beneath the blow of the quoit, he sank on. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Pronounce: pliant; wand; pathos; allied; asunder; quoit; triumphant. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
Democritus, that it is like a quoit externally, and hollow in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Here he accidentally killed, with a quoit, an old man, who was found to be his grandfather. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
But a gust of wind came from the sea and carried the quoit aside, far beyond all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
I tried it curiously on a finger; it was much larger than any normal ring, and hung like a quoit on a stick. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
At a trial of skill Odysseus, after being taunted by some of the Phaeacians, hurled the quoit beyond them all. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
We no longer speculate with Epicurus and Anaxagoras whether the sun may be as large as a quoit, or even as large as. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
Up went the ring, flashing in the sunlight, and caught, and hung, as neatly as a well-thrown quoit, on a little projection on the rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
But Jason bethought him of the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace. From Wordnik.com. [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference
For quoit or javelin oft and oft beyond the limit thrown?. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
He was learning to throw the quoit, and I was throwing with him. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
"How will the Discobolus recover when he has let go the quoit?". From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics] Reference
The talon emerged, clutching ready for action a six-pound iron quoit. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
Thrice his discus sped out as far as ever man had seen a quoit fly in. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
I had just sent my quoit up into the air as usual, when jealous Zephyr. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
He appears driving a hoop, throwing a quoit, playing with a nymph, catching. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
The prophet did not know that he was to kill his favourite with a quoit; he never foresaw that. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
Acrisius, his grandfather, for he died from the falling of a quoit which Perseus had thrown in a game. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference
Hyacinthus and jealous of his preference of Apollo, blew the quoit out of its course to make it strike Hyacinthus. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Fable] Reference
Bruce Cadogan Cavendish pulled forth his iron quoit and seemed to debate whether or not he should brain the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
The one hand of Bruce Cadogan Cavendish flashed pocketward and flashed back with the quoit balanced ripe for business. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
Pallas too does not fail him, she marks his superiority in the throw of his quoit, and thus inspires him with courage. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
The ‘discus,’ or quoit, of the ancients, was made of brass, iron, stone, or wood, and was about ten or twelve inches in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference
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