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The curtained windows clouded the Break of Day, but it seemed light and warm, and it announced in legible inscriptions with appropriate pictorial embellishment of billiard cue and ball, that at the Break of Day one could play billiards; that there one could find meat, drink, and lodgings, whether one came on horseback, or came on foot; and that it kept good wines, liqueurs, and brandy.
Gertrude had never been in Persia, but had seen some Eastern billiard cues in the India museum.
One night as I was passing a tavern I saw through a lighted window some gentlemen fighting with billiard cues, and saw one of them thrown out of the window.
The unspeakable idiots inside were crowding to the windows, climbing over each other's backs behind the blinds, billiard cues and all.
Her back had been 'pierced' with a billiard cue, said reports citing law enforcement.
The secure unit hit the headlines in 2015 when Richard Bracken, a murderer who killed a vicar with a billiard cue, failed to return' from unescorted leave from the mental hospital.
It seems that the Senate and House of Representatives have forgotten or missed a group of Filipinos that derive their income from 'winnings.' These are the professional athletes, boxers, mixed martial arts fighters, billiard cue artists, bowlers, golfers, etc.
MY AUNTY Jenny sat straight as a billiard cue on the brass-studded chair of green leather in that smoky old cafe of gossip.
Wendle Wilkie's known to you, But Jack's one of the chosen few, He's a wizard with the billiard cue, Way down at the group headquarters.
He said: "The real proving ground for me was when we took over a firm in Hertfordshire - Fletcher -that made billiard cue tips and my father sent me to run it.
Initially the scene was a microcosm of valley life between the two Great wars - the black-faced collier just up from the pit (no coal head baths at that time), the lady dressed in best fur-collared coat waiting for the bus, the suave, sharply-dressed snooker player posing with billiard cue in hand (most Welsh villages had their own snooker establishment - probably the reason Wales has produced so many fine snooker champions over the years).
The patent for manufacturing billiard cue sticks is a case in point.
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