ninepins

They were close enough for Jake to watch the ones near the burst going down like ninepins.

Once that production number is out of the way, traditions start falling like ninepins.

The tank machine guns began "to knock them off like ninepins."

It would have made you laugh, to see them standing there like ninepins, to be bowled over.

People flew like ninepins as the big ace came barreling through them.

A few lamps lay about like a surrealist's version of ninepins.

Men were falling right and left like ninepins.

The box described a swift, true vector and smashed little men like ninepins.

But why, dear Social Democrats, are you toppling over like ninepins?

There's not a thought in my head, you could play ninepins in it.'

Poland, France, and the Low Countries had gone down like ninepins.

And his prowess -have you not seen him, as I have, toss armored men about like ninepins?

"They rallied, came back on, and we cut them down again-like ninepins.

The teen-ages went down like ninepins before him.

A fist of hot air struck Dakar's back from behind and flattened his escort like ninepins.

Might he not say to himself "By that time I shall have had enough of bricks and ninepins.

"I played ninepins," he answered, "and lost a few pence."

The force of the blow picked the warrior priest up and threw him back among his own people, scattering them like ninepins.

The author knocked them down like ninepins.

We followed lamblike, dropping like ninepins at each turn.

"I have been playing at ninepins," he answered, "and have lost a couple of farthings."

Shattered bodies flew before them like ninepins.

The nicely paraded company went down like ninepins and within a short space of time all the Russian tanks were ablaze.

The enemy crew went down like ninepins under the battering of husky Navy fists.

You have seen a group of ninepins standing, all so rigid, and prim, and unbending.