Sentence examples for billiards of from inspiring English sources

Now, physiologist Saraid Billiards of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has found that even a mild bacterial infection can cause brain steroid levels to rise dramatically, leading lambs to become extremely drowsy and difficult to wake.

Carom billiards, of any variety, requires two people.

Adams sought to employ a manager as was typical of billiards professionals of the time; he was taken on by Billy O'Brien, a well known sports authority and one-time pugilist who managed Dominick McCaffrey later in his career.

The world governing body of English billiards and of the English form of snooker is the Billiards and Snooker Control Council.

But Mr. Melius's simple diversions are played on a round table in the corner of the billiards room of Oheka Castle, the 126-room French chateau in Cold Spring Hills that was once the summer playground of the financier and patron of the arts Otto Hermann Kahn.

And then it was back to the parlor for a game of billiards, another glass of wine and a splintering rendition of "I've Got to Be Me," which is an honorable sentiment for an actor but possibly a questionable one for an aspirant to the Players Club.

One minute you're having a quick shandy and a game of billiards with one of your oligarch mates; the next, you find you've sold them half a sub-Saharan country and a new transatlantic pipeline, and thrown in a book deal and dinner with a supermodel.

Billiards, any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue.

Mark Twain knew a thing or two about the "right word," and he scrawled plenty of nouns and verbs (and a few adjectives) in the third-floor billiards room of his Gilded Age mansion in Hartford, Connecticut.

George F. Slosson, a top billiards player of Adams' era, named him the "greatest exhibition player who ever lived".

The Baxter's men occupied the downstairs billiards area of the Anthony House, and patrolled the cross streets outside.