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  • On a large green area in the middle of the town, a number of boys, and even young men, were enjoying themselves, and playing at trap-ball.

    Travels in England in 1782 2004

  • Lord John played with us and the children at trap-ball, shooting, etc.

    Lady John Russell Ed 1910

  • They made him and me join them in a match at trap-ball that lasted two hours and a half.

    Lady John Russell Ed 1910

  • Page 69 horses, and leaping over each other's shoulders, the head of course inclined, but the column of the body almost upright; and as the leaper would strike far below, with a jar calculated to jolt a man's vital organs out of gear forever, he would instantly assume position again, with a shout, while two hundred pounds of yelling, human trap-ball would in turn execute the perilous flying leap over his head.

    Four years under Marse Robert, 1904

  • With the spring came the out-door sports of the season; among others that of ball -- for boys were boys, and played at ball even in those faraway days -- a game called trap-ball.

    Men of Iron 1891

  • So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant the game of trap-ball was in full swing every afternoon, the play-ground being an open space between the wall that surrounded the castle grounds and that of the privy garden -- the pleasance in which the ladies of the Earl's family took the air every day, and upon which their apartments opened.

    Men of Iron 1891

  • He gave, indeed, a short bark, and bounced up two or three times like a trap-ball, looking both ways at once; but this action only called down upon him universal derision.

    The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908 Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant the game of trap-ball was in full swing every afternoon, the play-ground being an open space between the wall that surrounded the castle grounds and that of the privy garden -- the pleasance in which the ladies of the Earl's family took the air every day, and upon which their apartments opened.

    Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

  • With the spring came the out-door sports of the season; among others that of ball -- for boys were boys, and played at ball even in those faraway days -- a game called trap-ball.

    Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

  • The twins, as little children, had always had the same occupations, Henrietta learning Latin, marbles, and trap-ball, and

    Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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