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In better weather they spend the leisure of the evening at the game of quoits, which is the standard pastime among

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

In better weather they spend the leisure of the evening at the game of quoits, which is the standard pastime among Scottish ploughmen.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

The younger ones occupied themselves as before, some playing cards (there was plenty of money, though there was no food), some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles.

War and Peace 2003

The younger ones occupied themselves as before, some playing cards (there was plenty of money, though there was no food), some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles.

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

Moskolitz has accordingly created a welcoming atmosphere that includes a martini bar, a DJ playing an eclectic mix of music ranging from Devo to Lawrence Welk, and "quoits," a Colonial ring-toss game that newcomers can play to win membership discounts, perfume and Talbots gift certificates.

humor « WordPress.com Tag Feed conchapman 2010

Moskolitz has accordingly created a welcoming atmosphere that includes a martini bar, a DJ playing an eclectic mix of music ranging from Devo to Lawrence Welk, and "quoits," a Colonial ring-toss game that newcomers can play to win membership discounts, perfume and Talbots gift certificates.

Gerbil News Network 2010

Instead of engaging in such perilous diversions, servants and labourers were ordered to "have bows and arrows and to use the same on Sundays and holy days, and leave all playing at tennis or football and other games called quoits, dice, casting of the stone, kailes

The Customs of Old England

"They shall have bows and arrows, and use the same of Sundays and holidays; and leave all playing at tennis or foot-ball and other games called quoits, dice, casting of stone, kailes, and other such importune games.

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904

They were never quiet, ceaselessly playing deck-quoits, tossing rings, promenading, or rushing to the rail with loud cries to watch the leaping porpoises and the first schools of flying fish.

Chapter 46 2010

Graves are overlooked by the brown and gold of bracken and gorse, extending downhill towards emerald green fields from the hilltop sites of prehistoric tumuli, hut circles and quoits (chamber tombs).

Country diary: Zennor, Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010