Example Sentences
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It's much too large a subject to be left to what Kipling called "the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goal".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2010
Cable covered more ground than the others too, and he was more trenchant and more direct more often, while they flannelled.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2010
Rudyard Kipling, England's national, not to say nationalistic, poet, dismissed England's two national games very scornfully: "The flannelled fools at the wicket, the muddied oafs at the goals."
From Time Magazine Archive
How I blessed those stolid, flannelled figures, for in a few minutes his face had settled back into repose, the colour had returned, and he was deriding the Surrey bowling in healthy irritation.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
She tried to laugh at the image of the concrete cricketer, half- flannelled, and red of face: the 'lucky calculator,' as she named him to Emma, who shook her head, and sighed.
From Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 by Meredith, George
