I have played at Shinney, or hockey, as we call it, all through the winter, through snow a foot deep, and when the thermometer was below zero; I have played at cricket in summer with the thermometer at 90, and I have never yet seen one serious accident.
"A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858"
S.R. Calthrop
Horace was not strong enough to play baseball, and his mamma had forbidden him to play Shinney, so he always stayed with the girls at recess, which was often very inconvenient when Elizabeth and Rosie wanted to teeter by themselves or stay indoors and tell secrets.
"'Lizbeth of the Dale"
Marian Keith
We hastily scan the several chambers to claim all that we find in the drawers and closets; are gratified to observe the bow-gun and Shinney-sticks of the young Wigginses departed, and quite fall out among ourselves over the wooden effigy of an Indian which has tumbled down from the barn-top.
"Tales of the Chesapeake"
George Alfred Townsend