 I have been informed, that a pastime called stool-ball is practised to this day in the northern parts of England, which consists in simply setting a stool upon the ground, and one of the players takes his place before it, while his antagonist, standing...  A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works - 250 psl.autoriai: Alexander Dyce - 1904 - 438 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | William Clarke - 1829 - 476 psl.
...where balls are driven from stool to stool, but does not say in what manner, or to what purpose. It consists in simply setting a stool upon the ground, and one of the players taking his place before it, while his antagonist, standing at a distance, tosses a ball with the intention... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 500 psl.
...where balls are driven i'rom stool to stool, but does not say in what manner or to what purpose. I have been informed, that a pastime called stoolball...tosses a ball with the intention of striking the stool; and this it is the business of the former to prevent by beating it away with the hand, reckoning one... | |
 | 1839 - 272 psl.
...covered the hand and the lower part of the arm. Stool-ball was a game which Strutt thus describes : I have been informed that a pastime called stool-ball...while his antagonist, standing at a distance, tosses the ball with the intention of striking the stool ; and this it is the business of the former to prevent... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1841 - 504 psl.
...does not say in what manner or to what purpose. 1 have been informed, that a pastime called stoolhall is practised to this day in the northern parts of...tosses a ball with the intention of striking the stool ; and this it is the business of the former to prevent by beating it away with the hand, reckoning... | |
 | William Clarke - 1849 - 646 psl.
...where halls are driven from stool to stool ; but does not say in what manner, or to what purpose. It consists in simply setting a stool upon the ground, and one of the players taking his place before it. while his antagonist standing at a distanee, tosses a hall with the intention... | |
 | William Clarke - 1855 - 234 psl.
...where balls are driven from stool to stool, but does not tay in what manner, or to what purpose. It consists in simply setting a stool upon the ground, and one of the players taking his place before it, while his antagonist, standing at a distance, tosses a ball with the intention... | |
 | William Martin - 1861 - 380 psl.
...within a given period. STOOL BALL was practised much in the northern parts of England. It consisted in simply setting a stool upon the ground, and one of the players taking his place before it, while his antagonist, standing at a distance, tossed the ball with the... | |
 | Every little boy - 1864 - 400 psl.
...particularly in Yorkshire, it is practised in the following manner : — A stool being set upon the ground, one of the players takes his place before it, while...a ball, with the intention of striking the stool. It is the former player's business to prevent this, by breaking it away with the hand, reckoning one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 532 psl.
...play where balls are driven from stool to stool, but does not say in what manner or to what purpose. I have been informed, that a pastime called stool-ball...tosses a ball with the intention of striking the stool ; and this it is the business of the former to prevent by beating it away with the hand, reckoning... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 532 psl.
...where balls are driven from stool to stool, but does not say in what manner or to wllat purpose. I have been informed, that a pastime called stool-ball...tosses a ball with the intention of striking the stool ; and this it is the business of the former to prevent by beating it away with the hand, reckoning... | |
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