Monique: Glad you mentioned "pick-up sticks" for I had completely forgotten to mention the name of the game aka "spillikins"!. From Wordnik.com. [mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Monique: Glad you mentioned "pick-up sticks" for I had completely forgotten to mention the name of the game (aka "spillikins")!. From Wordnik.com. [mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I throw in this explanation of "spillikins" to fill up a somewhat long and painful pause during which Cai and 'Bias without speech slowly questioned one another. From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] Reference
Josephine was summoned the next moment to play a game of spillikins with Augusta and Henrietta Winthrop. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
Well, "said the captain, setting the course for Gentian's Star and clicking on the long-range detectors," we'll play for spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard Of Karres]
It's called "Lustige Jagd" or "Chasse Joyeuse" and the instructions are in German and French; we called the game pick up sticks or spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day] Reference
At home there were card games to organize and billiard games and spillikins for the children and a few more energetic games, like hide-and-seek. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Her hand-writing was both strong and pretty; her hemming and stitching, over which she spent much time, 'might have put a sewing-machine to shame'; and at games, like spillikins or cup-and-ball, she was invincible. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Nevertheless, when Haynes and I first arrived, we were both too languid and feeble for any more exacting form of athletics than spillikins and jigsaws, and it was some time before the M.O. gave us permission to go on the links. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
A second pool of commerce, and all the longer by the addition of the two girls, who during the first had one corner of the table and spillikins to themselves, was the ruin of us; it completed the prosperity of Mr. Debary, however, for he won them both. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
One writer compares the structure to a bundle of spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
Sergeant of Marines, sitting down to a quiet game of spillikins with. From Wordnik.com. [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference
One evening, Belinda was playing with little Charles Percival at spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
At the Prime Minister's right, Sir John Elphinspoon, no longer agitated, but sustained and dignified by the responsibility of his office, was playing spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels] Reference
And anon, when his victim had steeled himself against this method, he could extract another five-pound note from his little hoard with the delicacy of one playing spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it viciously, though with occasional qualms as to the lawfulness of the process. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it vigorously, though with occasional qualms as to the lawfulness of the process. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favorable openings. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favourable openings. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
These rocks, these blocks, these peaks, these streaks, these cones, these cracks, these ramparts, these escarpments, -- what are they but a set of spillikins, though I acknowledge on a grand scale?. From Wordnik.com. [All Around the Moon] Reference
Next a precise insertion of his fork and out came the silvery strip known to Rosalie as "the swimming thing" and was laid in its turn upon the bones, exactly, neatly, as if it were a game of spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
Another time, when Monsieur Origet had announced positively that the count was convalescent, I was lying with Jacques and Madeleine on the step of the portico intent on a game of spillikins which we were playing with bits of straw and hooks made of pins; Monsieur de. From Wordnik.com. [The Lily of the Valley] Reference
She threw back her head and looked at him, her cheeks flushed, her lips quivering with a secret that, once out, would perhaps silence him at once -- would, at any rate, as children do when they give a shake to their spillikins, open up a number of new chances in the game. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference
And finally, there is the long idleness between business interviews, with nothing to do save sit there quiet-like and think about the queerness of things in general: and that is always rare employment for a poet, even without the tatters of so many lives and homes heaped up about him like spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
If the rather vague Victorian public did not appreciate the deep and even tragic ethics with which Stevenson was concerned, still less were they of a sort to appreciate the French finish and fastidiousness of his style; in which he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference
Abbé, that carriage is no good for anything else but to play spillikins with. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
"She and Miss Jamieson settled to a noisy game of spillikins with the two remaining followers. From Wordnik.com. [An Unacceptable Offer]
Also be it said that the operation lends itself, even better than does the game of spillikins, to a pretty display of hands and wrists). From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] 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
Regency, spillikins comments. From Wordnik.com. [Conkers and the games children played during the Regency] Reference
Or halma, or spillikins (horrible sport!). From Wordnik.com. [More Cricket Songs] Reference
'It's all in spillikins in the back garden.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
Regency, spillikins. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
‘It’s all in spillikins in the back garden.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
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