tiddledywinks

I was sorry to miss such an evening, and think I could forego tiddledywinks with a fair degree of amiability if, instead, I could hear such a man talk.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

I plainly see that I have played my last game of tiddledywinks and solitaire.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

I fear to play tiddledywinks lest my hour may resume the guise of a hag.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

If I can recite even these six plays in those six evenings I shall feel that I did well in deciding for Shakespeare instead of tiddledywinks.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

And always Gertie Cowles, gently hesitant toward Ben Rusk's affection, kept asking Carl why he didn't come to see her oftener, and play tiddledywinks.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

I still class fishing and golf together with tiddledywinks, and eschew all three as thoughtfully as I avoid bazaars and "crushes" given by the ladies of both sexes.

Caves of Terror Talbot Mundy 1909

The little tiddledywinks business that I've got to learn -- all the value there is in the mass of balderdash about manners and dress -- I can learn it in a few lessons.

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel David Graham Phillips 1889

My boys play travel baseball, but my colleagues tell me the same thing happens in travel soccer, travel hockey and even travel tiddledywinks.

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Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover.

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews Robert Green Ingersoll 1866