We set up the croquet game on our back lawn. From LearnThat.org.
But Catalano, who came wearing earrings with balls the colors used in croquet, was not ready to give up the traditional game. From Wordnik.com. [Converting Croquet to ‘Toequet’ | Impact Lab] Reference
The forenoon we spent in the garden, pretending to play games that come out of boxes, such as croquet and clock golf. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Gardening, croquet, and tennis are very desirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Weather permitting, there will be flamingo croquet. From Wordnik.com. [Montgomery County community events, Aug. 19-26, 2010] Reference
"I thought you all went down to the croquet-ground?". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
I am sure she, like many others, is easily your victim -- at croquet. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
From our balcony we can see other families playing croquet on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [A new mum again ... at 48!] Reference
As they waited on the croquet lawn to take their turn, Henry remarked to. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Is it that it is possible to go too deep into all sciences, even croquet?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
"No; nothing pleased him as croquet did -- nothing, unless it were chess.". From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
All they needed was a croquet set for a little spin around the Rose Garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Oval: Changing the Subject?] Reference
I grafted a golf club on a croquet post, and I got some wonderful golf balls. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
England, the reasons for the general use of the roquet-croquet would be far stronger. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Lawn-tennis and croquet are very popular, but the latter is the favourite pastime of the. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
The wet sand did not make so good a croquet-ground as the one he had had made in his park!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But as with many other sports, croquet carries the burden of particularly intense nationalisms. From Wordnik.com. [Different Strokes] Reference
It is a good thing to know one's ground in all circumstances, but especially in playing croquet. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Prince is playing at croquet with the Duchess, and says when the Queen arrives to let him know. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
He smiled at her and picked up Mun Bun out from under the box from which the croquet balls had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
Her father lost and re-made his fortune, allowing her to play croquet at this club for the last 40 years. From Wordnik.com. [Different Strokes] Reference
It was like one enormous goal post in the shape of an arch, or one of the hoops to a gigantic croquet set. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 3] Reference
The croquet-ground, which was underwater at high tide, was a long stretch of sand that fringed the shingle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The croquet part was, of course, the result of Major Borden's patient and exacting teaching at Baton Rouge. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
After supper some of the guests sat on the porch, others walked about the grounds, and some played croquet. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
More than twenty manuals of croquet have been published in England, it is said, and some five or six in America. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
You will remember that part of the gravel for redressing the croquet ground was dumped under the east window there. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
At the present time the old game of croquet is being revived under another name, and tennis is the vogue among many. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
Happy Valley is also the scene for various sports, such as golf, tennis, croquet, and racing, in which Hong-Kong abounds. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Good athletic exercise by walking, riding, or playing croquet, or any other amusement, will greatly improve the condition. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"Do you play with or without the roquet-croquet?" has now come to be the first point of mutual solicitude in a mixed party. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Until the new American commentator appeared, there was no really scientific treatise on croquet to be had in our bookstores. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Why risk getting maimed by an errant croquet mallet when you can arm yourself with a plastic-plated Turtle Shells sports bra?. From Wordnik.com. [Have A Really Safe Summer] Reference
Peggy was glad there were children in the doctor's family because they would be sure to enjoy the croquet ground and the apple trees. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
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