"Ninepins" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this time. Already the drawing-room was crammed with perfumed people and too fragrant flowers, and a babel of chatter. I should have had to knock fat old ladies and thin old gentlemen about like ninepins to sort out from among bonneted and bald pates the inconspicuous brown head I sought, and my search was checked constantly by well-meaning creatures who pined to tell me how pretty the wedding had been, or how much I had grown since they saw me last. Now and then, ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |
