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1807 J. R. Shaw (1930) 76 Men of diabolical principles..employed in..horse-racing, billiard-playing, [etc.].
1890 W. James I. xiii. 509 Billiard-playing, rifle-shooting, tight-rope-dancing, demand the most delicate appreciation of minute disparities of sensation.