cricket-ball

In the early days of Cricketers, the pub where I grew up, I remember my dad used to serve a whopping great burger the size of a cricket-ball topped with a huge amount of Cheddar cheese and homemade tomato relish.

Coolness - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

The ship danced like a cricket-ball, and the pilgrims howled with fright, and six died.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Tom kept Harkaway all to himself, and won the second prize in the lottery, some thirty shillings, which he and East contrived to spend in about three days in the purchase of pictures for their study, two new bats and a cricket-ball — all the best that could be got — and a supper of sausages, kidneys, and beef-steak pies to all the rebels.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Miss Mitford, in one of her charming sketches, tells us of a cricket-ball being thrown five hundred yards.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 Various

Salisbury, and Reginald, Louis was duly initiated; and after a couple of hours 'play they returned home, Louis being in some doubt as to whether his fingers were not all broken by the concussion of a cricket-ball, but otherwise more favorably disposed towards the game than heretofore.

Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

He let fly with such vengeance, that the cricket-ball was found embedded in a bank of clay five hundred yards off, as if it had been a cannon shot.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 Various

FIRST COMMISSIONER, speaking no doubt from personal experience, expressed the view that there was considerably more danger from a cricket-ball.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 Various

Latin sentence; you leave it among your garments when you plunge into the river, it rolls away from the rolling cricket-ball, the first whirl in the gymnasium disposes of it, and you are left free, as boys and birds are free.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

The ball used on these occasions is a little smaller than a cricket-ball, and has a coating of silver; it is inscribed with the verse --

The Cornwall Coast

The balls, which are of the size of a large cricket-ball, are made of leather, and are so heavy, that, when well played, they are capable of breaking the arm, unless properly received on the _bracciale_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various