Inside were the emerald and opal "halma" board and ruby and diamond pieces, and with them a slip of parchment with Daphne's handwriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference

Our dinner was again very pleasant, and we had more halma in the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

We were staying in a country house one year where there were seven tables of halma in the long gallery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

Dessert the evening before had proved a very dull affair, and the time in the drawing-room afterwards, playing halma with the cousins, was worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queensland Cousins] Reference

Henrietta and I rather amused ourselves after dinner teaching the commandant and another officer halma, which was just then at the height of its popularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

When you have gone, I will ask Mrs. Gordon to teach me the spirit of acquiescence, and one of those distracting games -- bésique or halma, or some of the other infernal pastimes that heaven decrees for recalcitrant spirits in need of crushing discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

In the brilliant preface to "Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant," Bernard Shaw, referring to middle-class home life, speaks of "the normal English way being to sit in separate families in separate rooms in separate houses, each person silently occupied with a book, a paper, or a game of halma, cut off equally from the blessings of society and solitude.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference

They unearthed halma, puzzles, fortune-telling cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby] Reference

Sitting up waiting to be read aloud to and played halma with when Richard wanted me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk-chocolate for prizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reginald] Reference

halma p.l.c. (www. halma.com) is an international market leader in safety, health and sensor technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Releases] Reference

The game was really a mix-up of parcheesi, halma, and some others; to which were added some original rules out of Sinclair's own head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Friends] Reference

She would go walks with them in the woods, help them to arrange their various collections of butterflies, foreign stamps, and picture post cards, and play endless games of draughts, halma, or bagatelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess of the School] Reference

To play halma with zest all the evening with a parent who must always win, to read the papers to him by the hour, not while he listened, but while he slept -- Fay scorned these humble efforts of Magdalen's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron] Reference

"None of my children have been brought up to play card games," said Mrs. Eggelby; "draughts and halma and those sorts of games I encourage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference

"I've come to be your legger, grandma," she announced, "and I'll read to you, or amuse you, or play dominos or halma with you, or anything you like.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference

Then on another evening we might encourage the men to play progressive games like draughts, halma, picture lotto, spillikins, ping-pong, and beggar-my-neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference

Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference

And the game of halma would begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

She had forgotten how to play halma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

Wendy and Jess began a game of halma.    From Wordnik.com.  [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference

Or halma, or spillikins (horrible sport!).    From Wordnik.com.  [More Cricket Songs] Reference