Crossword-Solution: NINEPIN 7 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

You did knock him over like as he were a ninepin!” “And you do joy to see me thwacked about on the ribs?” asked Robin with some choler.

Dominic’s brawny arm would be seen describing deliberately an ample horizontal gesture, a dignified sweep, and Cesar would go over suddenly like a ninepin—which was funny to see.

Just as Greenwood bounded across the room towards the group, Basil plucked the ponderous tome bodily out of the shelf, swung it, and sent it spinning through the air, so that it struck Greenwood flat in the face and knocked him over like a rolling ninepin.

Thus Blanche perceived now the notable and physical differences between the qualities of her old husband and perfections of the said Gauttier, a gentleman who was not over affected with his twenty-three years, but held himself upright as a ninepin in the saddle, and as wide-awake as the matin chimes, while in contrast to him, slept the seneschal; he had courage and dexterity there where his master failed.

The ninepin alley was deserted, for the premature chilliness of the day had driven the company within doors.