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The quartering of the House of Hohenzollern wears a baldric in praise of "Subgum Noodle Warmein," which it seems they cook to an unusual delicacy. Even a wall painting of Rip Van Winkle bowling at tenpins in the mountains is now set off with a pigtail. But the chairs were Dutch and remain as such. Generally, however, Chinese restaurants are on the second story.
Thomas Braddock was shoving the glad performers about as if they were tenpins, raging like the lions which roared their surprise at this unseemly hubbub in front of the cages. From sheer excitement, David's head was reeling; his senses began to slip away; his legs were tottering. Suddenly the crowd fell away. One man was facing him.
The little scholars, armed to the teeth, no longer sat up straight as tenpins. After twenty-five minutes of educational experience, satiety bowled them over. A single glance had convinced Ben that the alphabet was beneath contempt.
Demetrio, standing like a furious bull in the middle of the arena, cast fierce glances at all the bystanders, Luis Cervantes, Anastasio, Manteca, and the others. "Goddamn you! You've taken my gun away! Christ! As if I needed any gun to beat the hell out of you." Flinging out his arms, beating and pummeling, he felled everyone within reach. Down they rolled like tenpins.
Oh, he's there all the time, and the wonder with me is that he hasn't turned up before." "What would he have done had he come along and found us both in the cave, and the Apaches watching?" "He would have tracked that wolf back to his hole, come in and fetched us out, and then slipped up behind the six, and tumbled them all in like so many tenpins."
The setting up and the bowling over of the generals commanding the army defending Washington from McDowell at Bull Run to Meade at Gettysburg, resembles a grim game at tenpins.
Shaw has been chloroformed, the servants knocked about like tenpins, and Frank's emerald necklace has been stolen. We'll wait here for news." "And so," the lieutenant said, looking Nestor in the eyes, "you were waiting for the interests back of this thing to show their hand by trying to get the papers."
"Them Comanches hated Kit and me like pison; they knowed us both, and they went for us in a way that made us dance around lively; but it was no go, and we tumbled 'em back like tenpins, but they kept things so hot that me and Kit tipped over a big rock in the path.
Newton's men came over part of the ground we had traversed, and as they crossed the open we saw them under the enemy's cannonade, the balls here and there bowling them over like tenpins. Harker's brigade came up to relieve Manson's, which was the most exposed, and Manson and I were standing together arranging the details, our horses being under cover in the edge of the wood.
"D'ri," said I, in amazement, "how did you ever do it? There 's ten years' work here." "God helped us," said he, soberly. "The trees went over 'n the windfall, slammed 'em down luk tenpins fer a mild er more, an' we jes' burnt up the rubbish." April was near its end.
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