The villages are often built round greens which serve as the village playground, where the boys and young men now play cricket and football, and their forefathers practised archery, played quoits and other games.
"Lessons on Soil"
E. J. Russell
"Now any of you fellows who want to can get busy on the parallel bars," he told them, "or if you like you can go out into the back yard and pitch quoits.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
Some played quoits upon the upper deck, in which sport Willy joined.
"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht"
Frank R. Stockton