Modern Pastime; Or, In-door Amusements, Etc1871 - 179 pages |
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amusing arms audience baulk billiards bottom called centre Champion cigar coin coloured balls commencement cushion diamond suit divided ball double Echo Exercise familiar spirit feat feet fingers foul stroke four gentleman give gorilla gymnast handkerchief Hughes inches knave of spades knees left hand legs long card Lord of Misrule losing hazard marker marmoset middle pocket miniature card miss natural angle palm pass performed person Place the balls played-with ball player's ball points pole Pool position practice PYRAMID POOL quadrille queen red ball request right hand round rules score seated SECOND LADY shuffle side and screw side-stroke skittles sound specta spot strokes stand stop straight strike the object-ball strike your ball striker striker's ball strong side student tell thumb toes touch trick turn twist upright ventriloquism ventriloquist voice white ball winning hazard wrists wrong ball
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Page 117 - A life is lost by a ball being pocketed, or forced off the table by the adversary. 7. Should the striker pocket the ball he plays at, and by the same stroke pocket his own, or force it over the table, HE loses the life, and not the person whose ball he pocketed.
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Page 166 - Popular Readings in Prose and Verse. Edited by JE CARPENTER. FIVE DISTINCT VOLUMES, each Complete, paged throughout, with Index. A General Index to the entire work is given with Vol. 5. In fcap.
Page 6 - ... together. In a short time the voice from the roof renewed its lamentations and reproaches, and the whole convent fell on their faces, and vowed a solemn reparation. As a first step, they chanted a De profanáis in a full choir: during the...
Page 29 - Hold the pack of cards in your right hand so that the palm of your hand may be under the cards ; place the thumb of that hand on one side of the pack, and the first, second, and third fingers on the other side, and your little finger between those cards that are to be brought to the top and the rest of the pack. Then place your left hand over the card in such a manner that the thumb may be at 5, the forefinger at 6, and the other fingers at 7, as in the accompanying figure: Left hand.
Page 4 - I shall soon be delivered from this place of torment. You will at the same time provide a worthy husband for your daughter, and procure everlasting repose to the soul of your poor husband.
Page 5 - Wherever the banker conducted him, at every step his ears were saluted on all sides with the complaints and groans, not only of his father, but of all his deceased relations, imploring him for the love of God, and in the name of every saint in the calendar, to have mercy on his own soul and theirs, by effectually seconding with his purse the intentions of his worthy companion.
Page 115 - If the striker make any points, he may continue his game until he ceases to make points. 6. If, when the cue is pointed, the ball should be moved without the striker intending to strike, it must be replaced ; and if not replaced before the stroke be played, the adversary may claim it as a foul stroke.
Page 39 - ... the cards in the palm of your left hand, and when you request the person who first examined it to look at it again, he will observe that it has been changed. Rapidity and manual dexterity are required for the performance of this capital sleight-of-hand trick. TO TELL THE NUMBER OF CARDS BY WEIGHT. The apparently marvellous gift of telling the number of cards by weight depends on the use of the long card. Take a portion of a pack of cards— say forty— and insert among them two long cards. Place...
Page 21 - ... mouth will be very much enlarged. This will cause the voice to be obscured, and so appear to come nearer by degrees. At the same time, care must be taken not to articulate the consonant sounds plainly, as that would cause the disarrangement of the lips and cavity of the mouth ; and in all imitation voices the consonants must scarcely be articulated at all, especially if the ventriloquist faces the audience. For example : suppose the imitative voice is made to say, " Mind what you are doing, you...