"Cricket bat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... But the most striking feature of these animals was the tail. This appendage was entirely without hair, of a dark colour, and looking as though it was covered with the well-known substance shagreen. It was about a foot in length, several inches broad and thick, and not at all unlike a cricket bat—except that it appeared heavier and more oval-shaped at the end. The animals were somewhat larger than otters, not so long, but much thicker and ...
— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... began. "I say, do you want a cricket bat? I shan't be here next summer, so you may as well ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie
... once washing clothes by the process known universally in Munster as beetling. The washer stands up to her ankles in water, in which she has immersed the clothes, which she lays in that state on a great flat stone, and smacks with lusty strokes of an instrument which bears a rude resemblance to a cricket bat, only shorter, broader, and light enough to be wielded freely with one hand. Thus, they smack the dripping clothes, turning them over and over, sousing them in the water, and replacing them on the same stone, to undergo a repetition of ...
— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu |
