 | 1824 - 462 Seiten
...m> rnoH oca LAST.] 47. A BOWLIKO ALLEY is the place where there are three things thrown away besides Bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and the last,...one. The best sport in it is the Gamesters, and he enjoyes it, that looks 011 and bets not. It is the school of \vranging, and worse then the Schools,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878 - 540 Seiten
...' A bowl alley,' writes the Bishop, ' is the place where there are three things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one. The best sport in it is the gamester's, and he enjoys it best that looks on and bets not. It is the school of wrangling, and worse... | |
 | 1878 - 536 Seiten
...' A bowl alley,' writes the Bishop, ' is the place where there are three things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one. The best sport in it is the gamester's, and he enjoys it best that looks on and bets not. It is the school of wrangling, and worse... | |
 | 1878 - 698 Seiten
...Bishop, ' is the place where there are tlu.ee things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money, arid curses, and the last ten for one. The best sport in it is the gamester's, and he enjoys it best that looks on and bets not. It is the school of wrangling, and worse... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 226 Seiten
...them. "A bowl alley," writes the bishop, "is the place where there are three things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one. The best sport in it is the gamester's, and he enjoys it best that looks on and bets not. It is the school of wrangling, and worse... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1801 - 474 Seiten
...Bowling-green or Bowling-Ally is a place where three things are thrown away besides the Bowls, viz. Time, Money, and Curses, and the last ten for one....the Gamesters, and he enjoys it that looks on and betts nothing. It is a School of Wrangling, and worse than the Schools ; for here men will wrangle... | |
 | Edward Holdsworth Sugden - 1925 - 614 Seiten
...dice, tables, cards, and bowls, as evil diversions. Earle, for example, Micro. 101, says, " A Bowl-A. is the place where there are three things thrown away...time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one." Gosson, in School of Abuse, p. 45 (Arber), says, " Common B. Allyes are privy moths that eat up the... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 Seiten
...apt for an earlier time: A bowl-alley is the place where there are three things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money and curses, and the last ten for one. The best sport in it is the gamester's, and he enjoys it that looks on and bets not. it is the school of wrangling, and worse than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1903 - 264 Seiten
...Parnassus, I. i. (ed. Macray, p. 38). 1 1 . swear] Earle in Microcosmography ("A bowl-alley") writes: "Is the place where there are three things thrown...time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one." 14. crop the ears'] playing on " curtail, which F spells (as does Cotgrave under Acconrcir) "curtail,"... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1913 - 334 Seiten
...Abuses, 1583 (2nd ed.) Bowling A bowl-alley is the place where there are three things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money and curses, and the last ten for one. The best sport in it is the gamester's, and he enjoys it that looks on and bets not. It is the school of wrangling, and worse than... | |
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A bowl alley,' writes the Bishop, ' is the place where there are three things thrown away besides bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one. 