What is "ninepin"

Usage examples of "ninepin".

She would be scrabbling for safety atop his shell, while he burst from the cabin, scattering Takisians like ninepins, rescued Tach, and flew them triumphantly home.

Could I believe my senses when I found that it was turned into a gymnasium, and heard the low thunder of ninepin balls, and the crash of tumbling pins from those precincts?

The Terror had schooled herself in the debating societies of the Institute, and would set up the President, when he was floored by an awkward question, as easily as if he were a ninepin which had been bowled over.

The disaster spread from its source, each hapless human ninepin more likely than not to knock down others so that they fell over the danger-laden boundary, and in turn ricocheted to a dearly bought equilibrium.

The arrest of Marie Bosse was like knocking down the first of a row of ninepins, but none could have suspected that the last of these stood in the royal apartments.

Men were hurled aside like ninepins by the impact of some moving body that clove them like the rush of a tornado.

A second rock shattered the glorious towers like ninepins, toppling them left and right.

Plunging into the fray with a curse, he exercised his great strength, throwing the men this way and that like ninepins, and finally dragging Silas to his feet again.

In the inn-yard there was no sign of a soul, except the village idiot who was playing ninepins with bottles.

The nicely paraded company went down like ninepins and within a short space of time all the Russian tanks were ablaze.

I have legs like ninepins and I can dance, so just follow and do as I say.

His mind had assessed the people he met in New York, but they might have been ninepins for all he cared about them, though for Felicity he had felt a certain dim tenderness.

Cold, spectral blue bolts of sky fire, followed by distant reverberant thunder, as if somebody were playing ninepins with asteroids for balls and dry, forlorn planets for pins.

Shal held the Staff of Power out at just the right height to clip the tall gnolls in the neck as they approached, sending them to the ground like so many ninepins.

With the enthusiastic egotism of the true artist he went over his most celebrated performances, and smiled bitterly to himself as he recalled to mind his last appearance as "Red Ruben, or the Strangled Babe," his début as "Gaunt Gibeon, the Blood-sucker of Bexley Moor," and the furore he had excited one lonely June evening by merely playing ninepins with his own bones upon the lawn-tennis ground.