A nickel is a five-cent coin.

The checked player must find a way for the king to escape and block the check.

There were beads of sweat on his forehead.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

That's because, you see, I've known he isn't that sort of person from a long time back.

The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.

It would only take 100 or 500 yen coins, so I search for change but don't find any.

The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.

My brother was the apple of my father's eye.

A quick temper is the only defect in her character.

Her brow was beaded with perspiration.

His naked back and arms were beaded with sweat.

He blew soap bubbles.

Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.

The baby tangled the ball of yarn.

My father is as bald as a billiard ball.

Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap bubble.

The children were rolling a big snowball.

The children are blowing bubbles.

Rose was blowing bubbles.