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  Samuel Hopkins Adams. Common Cause. A Novel of the War in America. Houghton-Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press. © 1918 Curtis Publishing Company. © 1919 Samuel Hopkins Adams. Page 410. ("'Well, then! What's this we're up against right here in Fenchester? Are we fighting"? Or playing tiddledy-winks?'). Page 411 ("'There's very little tiddledywinks in it, so far as The Guardian is concerned,' confessed Jeremy with a wry face.")  
[] Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson. "The tiddlywink warriors", short story. ("small metal disk with sharp edges [...] poison") Appears in:
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. August 1955. (see Magazines section)
Earthman's burden. 1957, Gnome Press. Pages 154­185. Words used on pages 174, 177 (two), 179, 180, 181 (two)
Earthman's burden. 1957, Avon. Pages 159­189. Words used on pages 178, 181, 182, 184 (two), 185, 186 <o>
[] Poul Anderson. The rebel worlds. 1969, Signet. Page 50
[] Poul Anderson. We claim these stars. © 1959. Page 98 ("hypersquidgeronics")
[] Poul Anderson. (Other books in the Flandry series ("Hell and tiddlywinks").)
[] Piers Anthony. Blue adept. © 1981, Ballantine. Page 149 <o>
[] Piers Anthony. Fractal mode. ("Are you sure you know what you're doing' he asked Colene . . . he knew they were not playing tiddlywinks") <x>
[] Piers Anthony. Split infinity. © 1980, Ballantine. Page 312 <o>
[] Isaac Asimov [Ask Dave Lockwood]
[] James M. Barrie. Peter Pan. 1904. Chapter VII. "There was a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing," <e>
 

John Joy Bell. Cupid in oilskins. © 1916. Fleming H. Revell Company, New York

  • Page 54: "Ye'll ha' to tell me all about it afterwards," Mr. Buckle declared, and when the meal was over and the table cleared, he commandeered the wretched hero, planted him at the roasting fire, and
  • Page 55: ordered the others to play tiddleywinks under further notice.
  
 

John Joy Bell. Ethel. © 1903

  • Page 116: Do you remember the one she had for supplying tramway guards with tiddley-winks to play with when the car was at a terminus?
  
[] William S. Burroughs. Cities of the red night. © 1981. <x>
  Beverly Cleary. Beezus and Ramona. © 1955. Avon Books, Inc. (1990). Pages 80, 81 ("'Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks,' chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth. 'Not after the way you spoiled our checker game,' said Beezus. 'I wouldn't play tiddlywinks with you for a million dollars.'), and 82.
[] Clyde Brion Davis. Something for nothing. © 1955. Page 280
[] Philip K. Dick. Our friends from Frolix 8. © 1970, Bantam. Page 180 <o>
[] J. D. Fitzgerald. The Great Brain.
[] Erle Stanley Gardner. The case of the moth­eaten mink. 1952, Pocketbooks. Page 60
©1952, 1980, Ballantine Books, New York, ISBN 0-345-36928-9. Page 67 <o>
[] Anne Green. With much love. 1948. Page 103 (" [...] Papa found Eleanor and Mary playing Tiddledy Winks while Mamma and Charles pored over maps") <x>
 

Violet Guttenberg. Neither Jew nor Greek: a story of Jewish social life. 1902

  • Page 96: Celia rose from her knees, and came forward smoothing her skirt.

    "Playing tiddley-winks," she answered promptly"
  
 

Grace Livingston HIll. The honor girl. 1927

  • Page 97: "Gee! Elsie if you come back and live, I'll stay in every evening, and play tiddleywinks with you!" declared Jack.
  
[L] James Joyce. Finnegans wake. © 1939, Viking. Pages 23 ("how biff for her tiddywink of a windfall"), 583 ("whenever she druv behind her stumps for a tyddlesly wink through his tunnilclefft bagslops [...]") <c>
[L] James Joyce. Ulysses. © 1934 (written 1914­1921), Modern Library (Random House). Page 670 ("Parlour game (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks [...]") <o>
[] Stephen King, The stand. © 1978. (paperback) Page 784 ("The coins falling on the plastic made a sound that reminded Harold absurdly of tiddledywinks."). Page 897 ("A manhole cover exploded into the air at Broadway-and-Walnut intersection, went nearly fifty feet, and came down on the roof of the Oz Toyshop like a great rusty tiddledywink.")
 

Sinclair Lewis. The Trail of the Hawk. ©1915, Harper & Brothers.

  • Page 32: And always Gertie Cowles, gently hesitant toward Ben Rusk's affection, kept asking Carl why he didn't come to see her oftener, and play tiddledywinks.
  
  Halford Edward Luccock. Like a mighty army: selected letters of Simeon Stylites [pseud.]. 1954. Page 178 ("(AP) The National Tiddlywinks Shrine, costing $200000, was dedicated her yesterday, in the presence of 10000 members of the American Tiddlywinks Association."  
[] Fred Majdalany. Patrol. 1953. Page 68 ("In return she gave him four large tiddly-winks [...]") <x>
[] Julian May. The nonborn king. © 1983, Pan Books, London. Page 209 <x>
[>L] Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita. © 1955. Putnam. Pages 21 and another page. <o>
Berkley. Pages 20 ("I am just winking happy thoughts into a little tiddle cup"), 21 ("My little cup brims with tiddles.") <o>
[L] George Orwell. Nineteen eighty­four. © 1949, Harcourt­Brace. Page 298 <o>
  Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Copper Streak Trail. © 1917 The Curtis Publishing Company. © 1922 Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Houghton and Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press. Page 173. ("'It is a shame, of the burning variety that a State as wealthy as New York does n't and won't provide country schools with playgrounds big enough for anything but tiddledywinks!' declared Miss Selden."  
 

Edwin Meade Robinson. Enter Jerry. © 1921. The MacMillan Company, New York

  • Page 199: Once, Father started to offer him a cigar, and Max laughed merrily at having been thought of as a man, even for an instant. As if to dispel the illusion, he at once became the most youthful of us all, and we played crokinole and tiddley-winks with wild shrieks of laughter.
  
  Dorothy Sayers. Murder must advertise: a detective story.1933  
[L] John Steinbeck. The grapes of wrath. © 1939, Bantam. Pages 13 ("flipped the turtle like a tiddly­wink"), 87 ("the children squidged their toes in the red dust") <o>
[] Rex Stout. Rubber band. Page 129
[L] P. G. Wodehouse. The cat-nappers (US title). Aunts aren't gentlemen (UK title) ©1974, Perennial Library, Harper & Row, New York. Page 112 (Aunt Dahlia: " 'Do you remember when you had measles and I gave up hours of my valuable time to playing tiddlywinks with you and letting you beat me without a murmur?' ". Bertie Wooster: "I could have disputed this. My victories had been due entirely to skill. I haven't played much tiddlywinks lately, but in those boyhood days I was pretty hot stuff at the pastime.") <o>

 

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