(1) A nice touch is the addition of particle dust effects and chalk marks appearing occasionally on the otherwise immaculate green baize .

(2) TWO of the greatest ever exponents of hitting a ball on the green baize will soon be helping to raise funds for St Vincent's Hospital, Mountmellick.

(3) With hands and eyes free, you can soak up the delights of the Balinese countryside: the green baize of the paddy fields, the split gate temples, the daily processions.

(4) The man moved off and Adam stepped through a further doorway and followed him through a maze of green baize covered card tables.

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(7) A baize apron

(8) In terms of his temperament, Advani is very different from Agarwal and it is because of this, lovers of the green baize sport would be confident that this young man will go on to become India's first great professional snooker player.

(9) Both players are no strangers to York, having played league and exhibition matches in the city several times over the years, but this is the first time the two green baize giants have come face to face in York.

(10) And yet, away from the green baize , this was the man who was part of a winning team in the Australian surfing championship and who also played in the Aussie Rules first division for 10 years.

(11) A pack of cards appeared and, before anybody could protest, my father's folding card table with the green baize top had been set up.

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(13) And I know you just must be gutted that your charismatic guru, the voice and the face of so many shifts at the green baize is finally tossing in the chalk.

(14) Each table is separated from its neighbour by a partition, creating four small, brightly-lit theatres in the larger gloom, theatres in which players duel to the death across the green baize .

(15) It is the latest in a long line of triumphs for the player but only last year the 26-year-old was on the brink of giving up the green baize due to a lack of funds, following a bout of defeats.

(16) There, just across the asphalt, lay the cemetery, and in it a newly erected green tent covering a freshly dug grave, two rows of chairs covered in green baize waiting to receive us just as the earth waited to receive the casket.

(17) The interactive TV service will consist of a looped series of images and sounds, including clips of snooker balls rolling across the green baize , frisbees flying through the air, cat toys and cartoon characters such as Top Cat.

(18) And although he may have curbed his gambling, Jimmy still likes playing the odd long shot on the green baize .

(19) The graphics are OK - I mean how hard is it to draw green baize ? - while the players slightly resemble their real-life incarnations.

(20) In the end, the 69th National billiards championship held at the Hari Niwas Palace in Jammu will be remembered more for the boardroom tables than the green baize tables.