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.

• 1859, Ebenezer Landells, The Boy's Own Toy-maker, →OL, page 122:

  The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another.

• 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.