| 1 | The daughters of the Duke of Beutfout were playing popular English game called battledore and shuttlecock in the Badminton House. | |
| 2 | It is derived from the ancient games of Battledore and Shuttlecock where the aim was to keep up a continuous rally. | |
| 3 | It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and down a long beech avenue within sight of her. |