Citations:shuttlecock
English citations of shuttlecock
- 1696, Pierre Nicole, Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties, →OL, page 237:
- It is a Veſſel which muſt be filled with Sand to ballance it, otherwiſe it will overturn, and become the Shuttlecock of all ſort of Winds.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, →OL, ch. 123:
- In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round.
- 1862 - General Halleck to General Burnside, Official Records, s.1, vol.21, page 891
- They [i.e. the Confederates] are trying to make you play the game of shuttlecock, by sending troops backward and forward to Harper's Ferry.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, →OL, ch. 2:
- Crudely as they had calculated they were at first justified by the event: she was the little feathered shuttlecock they could fiercely keep flying between them.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, →OL, ch. 11:
- Bobbie burned the feathers of the shuttlecock one by one under his nose,
- 1997, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (tr.), Swann's Way, translation of À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust, page 460:
- ... in front of which a little girl with reddish hair was playing with a shuttlecock;
- 2012 August 3, “Badminton's black eye”, in Los Angeles Times[1], →ISSN:
- So when eight women players from three Asian countries did something not quite cricket at the London Olympics, it hit the cloistered organization that oversees the sport like a shuttlecock slam to the groin.