croqueted

There are a number of small balls which must be croqueted into two deep holes, with the aid of long slender mallets.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874

There are a number of small balls which must be croqueted into two deep holes, with the aid of long slender mallets.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870

Stop shot: A technique in which the croqueted ball is hit considerable distance and striker's ball barely moves.

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"I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear one's self speak -- and they don't seem to have any rules in particular: at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive: for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!"

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

` I don't think they play at all fairly, 'Alice began, in rather a complaining tone,' and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak -- and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming? '

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 1901

"I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!"

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1866

'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak -- and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!'

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865