10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHIPPING TOP»
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The book of games, or, A history on juvenile sports ...
WHIPPING-TOP. Do you like whipping a top, George ? It is not one of the games I
recollect playing at with you. The 6rst winter I was at Westminster it was quite the
rage. We hardly played at any thing else. George. It has been never been one ...
Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress), 1822
The whipping-top has an ancient pedigree in Europe. In a work of the thirteenth
century, Le Miracle de Sainct-Loys, the whipping-top {sabot) is mentioned 1 ; and
it is figured in the marginal paintings of English MSS. of the fourteenth century.2 ...
All the year xound the whipping-top was in favour. The whipping-top we find from
illuminated manuscripts was an Anglo-Saxon institution. Young England was
recommended to take to the whipping-top in preference to indulging in games of
...
Barnet queen Elizabeth's grammar sch, 1879
4
Tales for the young, a new translation
it was 3HE Whipping-top and the' Ball lay together in a drawer, among a number
of toys. " Ought we not to make a little i pair of lovers," said the Whipping- top to
the Ball, " as we are lying in the same drawer together ?" But the Ball, which was
...
Hans Christian Andersen, 1847
5
Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a ...
WHIPPING TOP. The Whipping Top is second only in general interest to the peg-
top; but even behind that it stands at a long distance. A whipping top should be
selected, as regards its size and shape, with discretion •. let it not be too high for ...
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The Book of Games, Or, A History of Juvenile Sports: ...
The cloisters, which is a paved covered walk, near the school, is an excellent
place for tops. WHIPPING-TOP. Do you like whipping a Top, .George? It is not
one of the games I recollect playing at with you. The first winter 1 was at
Westminster, ...
7
Every Boy's Book of Games, Sports, and Diversions: Or, The ...
Or, The School-boy's Manual of Amusement, Instruction, and Health. TOPS.
THERE are few things more difficult than to spin a top well, we mean of course a
peg-top. There are three kinds of tops, the humming-top, the whipping-top, and
the ...
8
Handbook of geological terms, geology and physical geography
Turbinated (Lat. turbo, a whipping-top). — Top-shaped ; generally applied to
those univalve shells which, like the winkle and garden-snail, have a spiral top-
like form. Turbinidse (Lat. turbo, a whipping-top). — An extensive family of
gastero- ...
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Handbook of Geological Terms: Geology and Physical Geography
Turbinated (Lat. turbo, a whipping-top).-—Top-shaped; generally applied to those
univalve shells which, like the Winkle and garden-snail, have a spiral top-like
form. Turbinidm (Lat. turbo, a whipping-top).—An extensive family of gasteropod
...
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Handbook of Geological Terms and Geology
Turbinated (Lat. turbo, a whipping-top).—T0p-shaped; generally applied to those
univalvc shells which, like the Winkle and garden-snail, have a spiral top-like
form. Turbinidae (Lat. turbo, a whipping-top).—An extensive family of gasteropod
...
David PAGE (F.G.S.), 1865
