Gray's back was to him, the blow was like that of a walking beam, and it sent the elder man flying as a tenpin is hurled ahead of a bowling ball.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
He came up very pleasantly and said: "I like your military practice better than your tenpin exercise, but on the whole it seems to disturb the young ladies.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866 The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine
But he was not regarded with the same favor, for he was often seen in company with young men known to be of loose morals, and would occasionally, visit billiard-saloons, tenpin-alleys, and other places where men of disreputable character are found.
"After a Shadow, and Other Stories"
T. S. Arthur