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“A game of shuttlecock: And I thought how there had not been an evening as sweet as this one at Bidnold for many a long time, and how it was as if all my Melancholy had been swept from my heart and sent by the Shuttlecock into some faraway void.”

Shuttlecock Malancholy

Book:Merivel: A Man of His Time

Source: Merivel: A Man of His Time

“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”

“I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.”

Should Games House Space White Situation Policy Concerned Congress Agency White House Odds Hitting Back And Forth Nasa Future Direction Shuttlecock Hitting Back

Author:Neil Armstrong

“A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.”

Thinking Littles Two Character Young Desire Chance Interesting Teeth Certainty Pairs Dentist Interesting Characters Cork Shuttlecock

Book:Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

“Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.”

Two Games Cases Exciting Lawyer Pleasant Shuttlecock

Author:Charles Dickens

“It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.”

Ifs Should Writing Wells Book Ends Fall Rooms Fame Writing A Book Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Shuttlecock

Book:Johnsonian miscellanies

Source: Johnsonian miscellanies

“You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.”

Ideas Dream America Politics Nations Heard Notion Giants American Dream Uneducated Fetish Recluse Shuttlecock

Author:Will Durst