Read full poem →on foot for buildinga new theatre within the walls of
the Tennis Court, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The peo-
ple of quality, to shew their sense of the ill treatment
Dictionary Entry
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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courts tenniscourt tennis. tennisshoes tennisball tennisplayer tennistennis playtennis lawn
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Poetry examples for “tennis”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Red Bull, performed in a new-built house situated in
Gibbon’s Tennis Court, near Clare-raarket. But this
theatre being not well adapted for the use to which it
Read full poem →136. handy 'originally a term
at tennis, from bander (Fr.),
of the same signification'.
Read full poem →In those alternate drives of the thought in his South Sea idyl
(clever as tennis play) how he slips from phenomenon to idea and reverses,
happy with either, it seems, "were t'other dear charmer away".
Read full poem →drives of the thought in his South Sea idyl (clever
as tennis play) how he slips from phenomenon to
idea and reverses, happy with either, it seems, “‘were
Read full poem →spent his summers in the company of books, at the
piano, on expeditions, and in playing tennis. During
winter he hunted. Hunting was a greater passion with
Read full poem →cracked, comfortable brown leather seats and the top down. He told
me his tan came from playing tennis, and when we were sitting
there side by side flying down the streets in the open sun he took
Read full poem →For the first time in my life, sitting there in the sound-proof heart
of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as
well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so
Read full poem →As easily and irretrievably
As a tennis ball at twilight.