Sentence examples for on a billiard from inspiring English sources
In 1856, a few years after the establishment of the "Abode of Love", Prince and Zoe Patterson, one of his virginal female followers, engaged in public ceremonial sexual intercourse on a billiard table in front of a large audience.
Incongruously, men play pool on a billiard table set in the dust just outside the village.
They see a world full of discrete objects, like balls on a billiard table, whose properties are best analyzed individually.
We can identify a moving cause, or what initiates a change: the impact of a cue stick on a billiard ball is the moving cause of the ball's motion.
Nina's father makes a cameo as a toddler urinating on a billiard table in Miller's novel "Sexus," so we thought we might go and brag about this to whomever we might find inside.
Both served as home secretary, sitting in the same gloomy chamber in the Home Office contemplating the chart of condemned men as discs inscribed with their names were daily moved closer to the gallows, like markers on a billiard board.
Lines that seemed factually Germanic a decade ago now sound Englishly satirical: "You set up a coalition like an egg balanced on the end of a billiard cue, and sooner or later you have egg all over the carpet," says one character.
The model, which we call a random billiard, is an example of a random dynamical system based on the idea of a billiard system with geometric microstructure.
Marx's wit sparkles in unexpected places: one store's maternity department featured a mural of birds and bees; he "planted" plaster cactuses in a drinking club founded during Prohibition and put stately obelisks topped by marble balls on the library mantel of a billiard equipment tycoon.
A chunk of debris with the mass of a billiard ball moving at orbital speeds imparts as much energy on a target as a round fired from a tank.
Compared with such escapades, hiring a dozen Australian craftspeople to design elements like a eucalyptus-leaf weather vane or marquetry panels depicting silver-leafed gum trees for a billiard room modeled on the Cabinet rooms of Parliament House in Canberra, is but a trifle, an art project writ extremely large.
