Removing the bits of wire when they had all been cut was like a complicated game of spillikins, and it was not till nearly 4.30 a.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
And anon, when his victim had steeled himself against this method, he could extract another five-pound note from his little hoard with the delicacy of one playing spillikins.
"The Man Upstairs and Other Stories"
P. G. Wodehouse
So there was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne