ball

From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal.

“We are going to build the loveliest new house down by the brook; and we’ll be playing ball next week and you’ve never played ball, Anne.

But it’s nice to imagine the fairies lost it one night when they had a ball, so we call it the fairy glass.

The soldiers you believe to be dying with hunger, worn out with fatigue, ready to desert, gather like atoms of snow about the rolling ball as it hastens onward.