"Spillikins" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins. Oppenstedt in love with Rosalie; Rosalie in love with Oppenstedt; Bahn and old Taylor working on the second story of the Southern Cross Bakery; Miss Potter doing double tides at the trousseau, and I, the friend of both, with a six-hundred-dollar ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne
... Origet had announced positively that the count was convalescent, I was lying with Jacques and Madeleine on the step of the portico intent on a game of spillikins which we were playing with bits of straw and hooks made of pins; Monsieur de Mortsauf was asleep. The doctor, while waiting for his horse to be harnessed, was talking with the countess in the salon. Monsieur Origet went away without my noticing ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac
... in the Burwood drawing-room bombarding Mrs. Leyburn in this fashion. All she knew was that she had sallied forth determined somehow to upset the situation, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle of spillikins on the chance of more favourable openings. Mrs. Leyburn's mind was just now playing the part of spillikins, and the vicar's wife was shaking it vigorously, though with occasional qualms as to ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... is a subject over which most ornithologists have waxed sarcastic. One writer compares the structure to a bundle of spillikins. Another says, "Upset a box of matches in a bush and you will have produced a very fair imitation of a dove's nursery!" According to a third, the best way to make an imitation dove's nest is to take ...
— A Bird Calendar for Northern India • Douglas Dewar
... said, "have put it in a nice state. If the horses are got up they will break it all to pieces. Abbe, that carriage is no good for anything else but to play spillikins with." ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France
... comprised under the name of tables, it is sufficient to mention that of draughts, which was formerly played with dice and with the same men as were used for chess; also the game of honchet, or jonchees, that is, bones or spillikins, games which required pieces or men in the same way as chess, but which required more quickness of hand than of intelligence; and epingles, or push-pin, which was played in a similar manner to the honchets, and was the great ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix |
