Lord Temple endeavoured to secure his exclusion on the ground that he had taken orders in the Church, and one of Gilray's caricatures delineates the two politicians, Temple and Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Horne Tooke as the shuttlecock.

e, e, " Sugar-tongs" tools with cutting h, Battledore.

The chief sub-races are (a) peacock, fan or battledore barley, described by Linnaeus as a distinct species, H.

He always maintained that fame was a shuttlecock which could be kept up only by being beaten back as well as beaten forward, and which would soon fall if there were only one battledore.

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