| 单词 | card-playing |
| 例句 | In fact, I think that’s why no one but my card-playing friends ever enters the shack. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He met them in different chat rooms, or on card-playing Web sites. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soirée musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale,sometimes diversified by card-playing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The wooden houses, the cool terraces for breezy card-playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of the prophetic wind that years later would wipe Macondo off the face of the earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The card game seemed to bore both parties; the dance solos expressed no particular tensions that we might have imagined going on behind the card-playing. Dance Review: Ballet and New Music Mix, Meet and Mingle 2011-06-26T22:30:27Z Ten-plus years and three college degrees later, I’m back where I started, just like my card-playing friends: too poor to participate in pop culture. Too poor for pop culture 2014-02-05T00:00:00Z Strauss, who affected the manners of a card-playing businessman, appeared not to give it much deep thought himself. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Her friends remember an enthusiastic, card-playing traveler who loved animals and jigsaw puzzles. Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The 15-inch boxes include a bathroom for a banana, card-playing Peeps and a bedroom created with a 3-D printer. These tiny houses aren’t for living. They’re 300 years of show and tell. 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z After he left the room, I would walk in and imitate her and those card-playing women, and eventually she’d laugh. Madea Honored the Strong Black Women I Grew Up With, but It’s Time to Move On 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z I just moved to Syracuse, and I don’t know anybody, so I joined this card-playing league. ‘I’ve always known I was different’: Four trans people share their stories Even more fundamentally, there’s no vehicle to convey the meal to your mouth, which if you ask the card-playing Earl of Sandwich is the whole point of the thing. Review | The KFC Double Down is a joke that’s not worth repeating 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z All of sudden you’re “fast talking” or “quick thinking,” “bragging” or “bullying” — the card-playing becoming knottier and more complicated with this seemingly straightforward shift in focus. How one of gaming’s most intimidating genres spawned a legion of hits 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z She was also a poker enthusiast who, as she recalled in a 2018 interview, once used her card-playing skills to win tickets to a Beatles concert in London. Haleh Afshar, Who Fought for Rights of Muslim Women, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Using digital health code records, teams of tracers plotted out a network of people to test based on where the man had been: a restaurant, a mahjong parlor, card-playing rooms. Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z She added that as her children grew up and learned who they wanted to be in life, “I learned who I wasn’t — one of those card-playing, country-club suburbanite ladies.” Sylvia Weinstock, master of the luxury wedding cake, dies at 91 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Prosecutors insinuated, because of Ramos’ card-playing hobby, that he was putting on a “poker face.” Capital Gazette shooter’s sister testifies that her brother was obsessed with his court battle against the newspaper 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z The best way to master the card-playing part of bridge is to learn any four-person card game where each person plays a single card in turn and the best card wins. Now Is the Time to Learn to Play Bridge 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Amid the joyless captivity of the nursing home, belief in his card-playing expertise is one of Weller’s few remaining pillars of self-respect, and he loses more of it with each defeat. Review: At Theatricum Botanicum, two fine actors remind us why 'The Gin Game' won a Pulitzer 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z In honor of the World Series of Poker, a formidable card-playing sports table: Sounds like this pig could use some help from a friendly spider — fast 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z That experience taught her something about the planned economy: After 25 days of drinking and card-playing, the crew did five days of hard work to meet their monthly targets. The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z A poker pro goes all in on MGM National Harbor and its rich, card-playing ‘whales’ Trump’s inauguration could be one of the warmest. New photos show Taft’s was one of the wintriest. 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Another tip from Jacob's card-playing days: Don't eat a big meal beforehand to avoid getting sluggish. 'Jeopardy!' crowns 'Tournament of Champions' winner; $250,000 prize, place in TV history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Hand after hand, Greaves kept his cool on the biggest stage of his card-playing career, gaining new fans and taking down competitors along the way. Zionsville man nets $500k in poker world series 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z ONE of the habits that Sylvia had acquired on tour in France was card-playing; perhaps she inherited her skill from Henry, for she was a very good player. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z His passion for shooting and hunting led him into a sporting, card-playing, drinking company, but science was his redemption. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z In almost every house card-playing forms the chief pastime both in the hareem and amongst the men, and, as a rule, they play for money. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z Dagg appeared on deck, his face livid with passion; and I could see by his walk that he, too, had been drinking heavily at his card-playing. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z Philip Rubens, his nephew, says in his life of his uncle, "He never gave himself the pastime of going to parties where there was drinking and card-playing, having always had a dislike for such." Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z In polite card-playing circles a lady's word is usually accepted as sufficient; but the ordinary courtesies of everyday life do not prevail in a family of six. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z “He’s awfully fond of card-playing, and if a pretty young lady like yourself was his partner he would never have the heart to get up from the table, I know he wouldn’t.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z He advanced in the downward path, until he became a daring burglar, and a skilful adept at swindling, under the name of card-playing, in addition to his more petty practice on pockets. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z So the noise and card-playing had all hours for their own. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The governor, though an accomplished scholar and great patron of learning, was very fond of card-playing, and of betting in the play. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The reading and card-playing went on every evening; and if the doctor won 60 kopecks53 from his hosts, he was much pleased, and said that his driver would not cost him much that day. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z They met professedly for card-playing; but the members were distinguished by such a fearless excess of profligacy as to obtain for it the name of "The Hell Club." The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The four players had finished their card-playing and were quite ready for the dice. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z This remark the more interested me, as it came from one who had spent much of his time since we entered the packet in card-playing. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Major Carlen was fond of clubs, fond of card-playing, fond of dinners; fond, indeed, of whatever constitutes fast life. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Jetton, jet′on, n. a piece of stamped metal used as a counter in card-playing, &c. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Scientific habits of thought, free inquiry about religion, and scholarly study of the Bible were put under the same ban with dancing, card-playing, reading novels, and travelling on Sunday. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z And there was the baptismal feast all arranged: sweet soup, hung mutton, potatoes, coffee, little cakes, with card-playing in the afternoon, and rice-porridge and sandwiches in the evening. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z We tired of reading books; we tired of card-playing and games on the ice; we even tired of music itself. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Moreover, from simple card-playing to desperate gambling there is but a chain of steps. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z The trip down to New Orleans consumed a week, which time was spent by the men in card-playing, carousing and indeed almost everything save serious reflection upon the momentous undertaking before them. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Only the actual existence of such temptation can justify interference with dancing or card-playing in a private house. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z All classes are passionately addicted to card-playing, which is forbidden by law in places of public resort. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The Habanera went very well by being transposed half a tone higher; but the card-playing scene was another matter. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z He needn't have left it if he hadn't taken to card-playing. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z This is the cook, eating, sitting, bar, and often the card-playing room, where teamsters, in crowded numbers, enjoy all the luxuries which their circumstances will admit, one of which is a most excellent appetite. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z Many of our States show particular hostility to card-playing, dancing, and theatre-going. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Last November, engineering students at the University of Maryland hosted their fourth annual Casino Night, an evening of card-playing and networking. Poker becomes a sport for young American males 2011-10-10T20:20:00Z “Free blacks endured injustices such as a 10 p.m. curfew and morality laws, which sought to legislate black behavior — no swearing in public or gambling or card-playing, et cetera, no political rights,” Medford said. For freed blacks in the Civil War, Washington was a city of contradictions 2011-10-07T04:01:00Z Decades after he left Washington, Hannan still chuckled about the time President Truman, a card-playing Baptist, called him for a discreet visit to the Oval Office. Retired Archbishop Philip Hannan, who gave eulogy for President John F. Kennedy, dies at 98 2011-09-29T12:27:02Z "That," concluded the man who sells bridges and trestles, "is the reason I've cut card-playing on trains for the past seven years." Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Here card-playing was going on, and several ladies were resting in large chairs, looking on at the players, or at all events pretending to interest themselves in the play. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z I was always glad to accompany these, as the monotony of life in a ruin, without sufficient food, and no recreation except card-playing, was unendurable. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Mr. Weprin’s relative unease before voters was apparent on Tuesday at the Pomonok Senior Center in Flushing, Queens, where he appeared alongside Senator Charles E. Schumer before a feisty crowd of card-playing grandmothers. Profile of David I. Weprin: Unflashy Scion of Queens Democrats Running for Congress 2011-09-09T03:30:49Z She unknowingly wound up on a date with a Magic: The Gathering card-playing champion. Online Dating Etiquette 101: Don't Name People When Recounting Your 'Horror' Stories 2011-08-30T20:44:49Z Some of the chaps were carousing in the fore-cuddy, where they could easily be boxed up; and the others were with Van and Brassey, all card-playing in the skipper’s cabin. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z Games of hazard, as card-playing or dice, are naturally seductive in their way. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z With many young men on board, and others who, though no longer young, were not disinclined for games of chance, it was only to be expected that a little card-playing should go on. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Well, the truth is, I was tempted into card-playing with some French officers I chanced to meet at the Mille Colonnes. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Nevertheless, people do not consider card-playing good taste. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z I suppose you do not lack—send me a few—lend me thy hand to laugh a little—send me a little pullet-sperm, a few finch-eggs—and remember me to each of our card-playing Club. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z They had amusements, such as dancing, card-playing, checkers, etc. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z He was that bad-tempered and fond of card-playing that I couldn't bear to have him in the same mess with me and the missus.' Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z I have never thought that there was any harm in card-playing merely for amusement. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Let us then have no more caricatures of methodistical, card-playing, and acrimonious old maids. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Had he confined himself to card-playing, he might have passed muster among the most respectable citizens of the place or its proximity, many of whom, like himself, were professed “sportsmen.” The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z He has a mania for betting and card-playing, and as his father had little patience with vices of this nature, their relations of late have been more than strained. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z The Schoolmaster's duelling with McNab had never been more than a laughing matter, a pricking, rapier fashion, in the intervals of card-playing and drinks. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Her horror of card-playing is a part of her religion. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z But though they were so bold with their card-playing, these wicked men had not the hardihood to venture out and see who it was ‘playing tricks,’ as they called it. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z It was useless to think that the merry-makers in the dining-room would be in the mood for more card-playing that night. A Blot on the Scutcheon It is really against my principles to allow card-playing in my house, but my wife's game is by no means an invention of Satan, unless tediousness is considered one of the torments of hell. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History Instead of the regular evening card-playing, we now question this round table about many things we wish to know; and even I, who at the beginning was quite incredulous, have been gradually converted. At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas I don't care anything about the right or wrong of card-playing. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z There the card-playing of the old Landsknechte gave place to the quicker games of the dice. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. "Since when have you become so squeamish about card-playing, Mr. Linton?" Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Nucky and I wept together, the keeper stood with tears streaming down his cheeks, the card-playing boys, noisy and careless a moment before, to a man laid their heads on the table and wept. Mothering on Perilous People thinks there’s no card-playing going on now, and gents and ladies running short.” Blind Policy "But, Miss Judy, I want to talk to you seriously about card-playing," the doctor persisted. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z In a Cherry Street hall-way I came across this sign in letters a foot long: “No ball-playing, dancing, card-playing, and no persons but tenants allowed in the yard.” The Children of the Poor Some of the old terms connected with card-playing are curious, a few of which are alluded to by Shakespeare. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The disease of incessant card-playing has laid low multitudes of wives and mothers, that card-gambling which has been described by former President Eliot as an extraordinarily unintelligent form of pleasurable excitement. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home "Give us a song upon card-playing!" cried one of the party. The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. This pistol episode was almost the only entertainment in which the passengers engaged themselves, except eating, drinking, smoking, conversation, and card-playing. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 He is going there again to Alais," said his father sighing, "and his wild enthusiasm for nature gives place to a well-lighted saloon, card-playing, witticisms, and frivolous conversations. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. Mrs. Rooney hated with an extreme hatred all the good, easy-going neighbours who were so soft with their children, and encouraged dancing, and race-going and card-playing—the amusements of the Irish middle classes. An Isle in the Water One of the card-playing women was tired and inclined to be sociable. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted During my second college year there was a great deal of card-playing among the students. Talkers With Illustrations Lamb speaks of him as “that poor card-playing Phillips, that has felt himself for so many years the outcast of Fortune.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The general tone of morals was inconceivably low, and a universal passion for alcohol and card-playing prevailed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Some of the churches denounced dancing and card-playing in no unmeaning terms, while others gave holy sanction to card-parties and charity balls. Confessions of a Neurasthenic After this sombre scene, you will find, I trust, agreeable mental refreshment in witnessing––perhaps even in participating in––our friendly card-playing, 184 and in taking part with us in our usual cheerful evening dance. Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town But, all the same, this card-playing is a healthy, harmless recreation, giving occasion for much laughter, fun, and pleasure. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I It is astonishing what a mania for card-playing existed in Corsica at that time—and it is probably the same now. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The first article of Frobisher's standing orders to his fleet enjoined his men to banish swearing, dice, and card-playing and to worship God twice a day in the service of the Church of England. Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas The card-playing administrator of law must have felt as small as his brother-judge who priced a cow at an Arkansas cattle-market. Law and Laughter He was a good deal on the turf, spent much of his time at card-playing clubs, and was generally known as a fast man. Is He Popenjoy? In the small hours of the morning the meeting broke up, and Villiers, the Major, Tommy, and a few more of the choicer spirits adjourned to Wyck's rooms to finish with a few hours' card-playing. Australia Revenged It was a great wonderment to Mr. Bond what happiness there could be in crowding together in a saloon, and smoking, and drinking, and card-playing, and low and boisterous conversation. The Elm Tree Tales Where the entertainment is mixed, a little music is appropriate, a little dancing and a little card-playing. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society He could hate it for himself and yet tolerate it in others, as a man may card-playing, or rackets, or the turf. The Life of Cicero Volume II. The elder people might solace themselves with card-playing, but the younger ones wanted a different kind of diversion. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Oh, if that scamp, that cheat, that low betting, card-playing rascal were but here! he would capital-fellow him. The Marriage of Elinor There was card-playing every evening at his house, if only at one table. The Brothers Karamazov Where neither card-playing nor dancing are indulged in, it becomes necessary to find some other amusement. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society All these thoughts had passed through the cochero’s mind before the card-playing commenced. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley For the ruder sort there were cockpits, where the betting ran high, and no end of dice and card-playing. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia I do not speak of card-playing about the purlieus of Piccadilly. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West I opened the local paper lately, and read of four of our young labourers accused of "card-playing." Change in the Village If neither card-playing, nor dancing is permitted, the supper usually becomes the feature of the evening. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Here they may be seen in groups, most of them ragged and greasy, squatted on the flags, card-playing—and cheating when they can—now and then quarrelling, but always talking loud and cursing. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Discussions ran high at times, and there was card-playing, or, if water was near, the young people went out rowing with songs and laughter. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia From that time forward no card-playing was permitted there. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen But from that hour no more card-playing was permitted there. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Nell has but one fault, and that is card-playing; he is just passionately fond of it; he is tempted everywhere. The Chautauqua Girls At Home "Many a time," he would say, "has a young priest acquired a taste for card-playing by spending but one night in a hotel." Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 And so our card-playing did result, not only to mutual pleasure, but to my especial Profit; for I was very lucky. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... "That's a bad pastime," he said; "when the devil saw the Bible for the first time he wanted to produce a caricature in opposition to it, and invented card-playing." Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen "That is bad reading," said he: "when the Evil One saw a Bible for the first time, he wanted to put a bad book against it, and invented card-playing." What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales "But home card-playing is so different; that isn't gambling." The Chautauqua Girls At Home They passed their time, when not in requisition about the Court, smoking and card-playing in the taverns and mug-houses about Scotland Yard and Spring Gardens. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... The villa wasn’t at all fashionable, and the run of American tourists fought shy of it, preferring the music and dancing and card-playing of the famous hostelries along the water-front. The Place of Honeymoons His card-playing was like everything else he did, offensive by reason of the spirit back of it. The Fighting Edge They froze in their card-playing attitudes, turning horrified eyes in the direction of the sound. The Huntress Who ever heard of a minister being asked to spend an evening in social card-playing! The Chautauqua Girls At Home A recreation hall opened in the village broke up the card-playing and brought the young men into something more wholesome and which they preferred. Church Cooperation in Community Life The men in the bothy, having eaten and drunk, had got tired at last of card-playing, and nearly all were curled up and asleep. As We Sweep Through The Deep She had never returned to the card-playing incident; but as time went on a number of others equally distressing presented themselves. The Tragic Bride I quite think the card-playing passage the best thing—as a unit—in the poem: but your opinion encourages my own, that it fails nowhere of good material. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Don't you see that the question, after all, is the same in many respects as the card-playing one? The Chautauqua Girls At Home There he was kept for several months, in company with counterfeiters, murderers, highwaymen, and gamblers, whose principal amusement was card-playing; when he was discharged penniless, in rags, and with a bad character. Anecdotes for Boys Reed tables with gollops of wicker; plain black wooden tables that were like kitchen tables once removed; folding-tables that may have been suitable to card-playing, if you didn’t play anything more exciting than casino. The Innocents A Story for Lovers With the card-playing incident a new situation had developed. The Tragic Bride Those occupying the forecastle now have something on their minds more important than card-playing: a question of money; but not money to be made in that way. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea She went on with her card-playing, but she played very badly. The Chautauqua Girls At Home Press and pulpit thundered forth denunciations of gambling and card-playing, and lectured the Prince upon his duty to the nation and his responsibility for public morality. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V Beyond these are revellers, a dissolute band, card-playing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 He says the fascination is so great as to draw the attention of these rough miners even from their card-playing. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature "If you take my advice, Lord George, you'll give up card-playing." The Opal Serpent "About just that thing; and nothing so really unnecessary to a complete life as card-playing may be." The Chautauqua Girls At Home In the small towns novel-reading has been considered about as contemptuously as playing the fiddle, though admitted to be less dangerous than family card-playing. On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. The fine for selling these cards must have been a dead letter, for we find in the newspapers proof of the prevalence of card-playing. Customs and Fashions in Old New England His chief enemies were card-playing and dancing as regarded the weaker sex, and hunting and horse-racing—to which, indeed, might be added everything under the name of sport—as regarded the stronger. Miss Mackenzie For my own part I know not the names of cards; and could never take interest enough in card-playing to remember them. The Young Man's Guide There were some amusements, jesting and laughter, some card-playing and health-drinking among the elders. A Little Girl in Old Boston There was card-playing and the relating of adventures through the long winter evenings, that sometimes began soon after three. A Little Girl in Old Quebec He must keep his wife idle and card-playing because other men’s wives are. The Squirrel-Cage What was all her own drinking and card-playing and knocking about in the saloons to end in? A Girl of the Klondike No but, really," said Mr. May, "drinking and card-playing with strange men in the drawing-room on Sunday evening, of cauce it's scandalous. The Lost Girl There had been card-playing in which he was easy winner, and not a little of his winnings had gone for wine. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War More, Cæsar and he had agreed to differ upon points of conscience other than card-playing. The Hill A Romance of Friendship Lydia looked rather dazed at this brisk and matter-of-fact disposing of the matter, and seemed about to make a comment, but the bell rang for card-playing to begin and Mrs. Emery hurried to her table. The Squirrel-Cage After that the card-playing by the camp fire, during which the chief came to his tent, and did what he could to draw him. The Death Shot A Story Retold Other clubs in this country and abroad slowly but surely followed, and the card-playing public in its social game adopted the new plan as soon as it received a fair trial. Auction of To-day Indeed, competition to help Marjorie clear away was so strong that Pennington had to use his authority before the men settled down to their usual routine of card-playing or lounging about on the grass outside. I've Married Marjorie For an instant this picture remained; then the drinking and card-playing were resumed, and I stood, as it were, alone on the sanded floor near the door. The Staircase At The Heart's Delight 1894 The evening had been given to a little music, a little dancing, a little card-playing, and a good deal of talking. The Old Folks' Party 1898 Some of the pilgrims on the Oscar II. were much annoyed at the prohibition of card-playing on board. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 Gradually, however, the various clubs began to recognize that the Whist Club of New York deserved to be ranked as the most conservative and representative card-playing organization in the United States. Auction of To-day However, ingenuity had just suggested card-playing for his amusement, and he paid little attention nowadays to any one save his opponent. Chivalry It was card-playing and easy gossip in the one, and not infrequent drinks being brought to impatient men by alert, deferential, many-buttoned servants in the other. Sonnie-Boy's People A prohibitory statute of Henry VII.'s reign, forbade card-playing save during the Christmas holidays. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries But it is objected to, on the same ground as horse-racing, card-playing, and theatrical entertainments; that we are to look at amusements as they are, and not as they might be. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School This is the head of Jonas, or the card-playing conjuring Jew. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 After the day’s labour, the evening was dissipated in card-playing, swearing, and hard drinking. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors They’ll have a camp; and these Mexican soldiers are such greenhorns, they’re sure to keep big fires burning, if it is only to give them light for their card-playing. The Lone Ranche Hone makes various allusions to card-playing at Christmastide, and Washington Irving, in his "Life of Oliver Goldsmith," pictures the poet "keeping the card-table in an uproar." Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries We had some good music, and there was a great deal of dancing, and not a little card-playing. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 He was never taken to Marriner’s, but he still occasionally accompanied his friend to the yard—on Sundays, usually, because of the card-playing, to which he had taken a great fancy. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys They missed the public amusements to which they were accustomed in their own country, and complained of the superstitious observance of Sunday, when “singing, fiddling, card-playing and bowling were forbidden.” Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII Sunday was a day set apart for hunting, fishing, horse-racing, card-playing, dancing and other amusements. The Kentucky Ranger Gendron was not badly wounded, and sat up to look on at the card-playing. Young Captain Jack The Son of a Soldier The young lady, in her Puritan simplicity, inquired: "Is card-playing a common practice here?" Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis More, Caesar and he had agreed to differ upon points of conscience other than card-playing. The Hill A Romance of Friendship The favorite dissipation then consisted in card-playing, and the stakes were too often out of all just proportion to the assets of the gamesters. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series Having made these few comments on the preceding tales, I will now record a few stories in which Satan is made to take a role similar to that ascribed to him in the card-playing stories. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales It is customary here in Southton, and considered all right and proper, while card-playing and dancing are not. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England The card-playing was going on close by, and jokes and oaths and laughter were heard on all sides; but Atwater heeded no one, and no one heeded him. The Drummer Boy There were masques and theatricals—nay, the king wanted a play acted on Christmas night—and card-playing went on for high sums, the queen losing £300 on the eve of Twelfth night. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide A hunting and card-playing clergyman ought to be stripped of his gown without hesitation. Louis' School Days A Story for Boys In the good County of Scotland, in the State of Missouri, back in the ante-bellum days there lived one Solomon Davis, whose chronic horror was card-playing. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective He did not consider card-playing at one's home a vice, or dancing a crime. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England There was dancing, there was card-playing, there was singing; and many new games were invented for the occasion. The Drummer Boy Indeed, there are well-appointed country seats in the South of Russia in which the long summer days are entirely spent in card-playing, with interruptions only for meals. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers "Come, Bartley," urged Frank, "drop this card-playing, and give attention to your studies." Frank Merriwell's Chums Ruth had traveled so widely and spent so many months visiting in various communities where card-playing on Sunday was the custom that I knew it didn't occur to her as anything out of the ordinary. The Fifth Wheel A Novel Cheerfully it went its ragged way, eating, drinking, sleeping, card-playing, rolling in the dust of its friendly wrestling. Steve Yeager We know now why Charlotte never learnt to dance until she went to Brussels, and why children’s games were unknown to her, for here are many mild diatribes against dancing and card-playing. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Archie—my cousin, you know; he was only a boy then—was mad on card-playing at that time. The Swindler and Other Stories Opium is to be had there and card-playing goes on, and I won't swear that you couldn't get liquor. The Golden Scorpion I had been brought up to look upon card-playing on Sunday as forbidden. The Fifth Wheel A Novel Are such popular amusements as dancing and card-playing harmful in their influence? Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition In the fall and winter very many people spent their evenings in card-playing or aimlessly strolling up and down the main street. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong Some said that he gained more by the card-playing, and by the popularity this mode of life won for him, than all he laid out upon it, but this was probably pure malevolence. The Bridal March; One Day He used to be always gambling and card-playing and drinking, but his father never minded his bad habits, and never punished him. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural There was one point on which all gamblers were unprincipled; they would play and win money of men they knew were totally ignorant of the arts of card-playing. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. He wondered if perchance this easy-going, card-playing, fishing Squire had, after all, some axe of policy to grind. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel I cannot live in Thayer’s house because the march of civilization has led a party of French and Wallachian women into the ground-floor thereof to instruct the ignorant Arabs in drinking, card-playing, and other vices. Letters from Egypt There may be no actual dissipation, no drunkenness, no card-playing, but, oh! how little of true devotion is there! Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 That evening we spent together at Johnson's office in drinking and card-playing. The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives These books may be said to embody a science of card-playing. The Navy as a Fighting Machine It gives anyone with a little tact an opportunity for stopping card-playing. Certain Personal Matters "I do not know as to his dancing and card-playing, but I dare venture a wager he does both," I replied, not liking her tone of sarcasm. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth I had a key because we young bloods used the place for card-playing, and high jinks. The Blood Ship It seems he has gotten into a card-playing set who have led him away further than he realized. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe And yet the respectable classes speculate while anarchists and supermen are merely horrified by the card-playing and champagne-drinking of people richer than themselves. Art He remained with her till seven, talking to her about hunting, shooting, literature, and card-playing. Mike Fletcher A Novel After a little card-playing, I expressed regret to Jane that I could not have a dance with her for lack of music. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth A mining population is always a gambling one and a card-playing one. Town Life in Australia On these and card-playing he spent more money than he could afford, but in 1793, at his father's death, he received an ample fortune. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life That there be no begging, swearing, gaming, card-playing, quarrelling, or universal conversation. Elizabeth Fry Stern laws were made against card-playing, long hair, drinking healths, and wearing certain articles, such as gold and silver girdles, hat-bands, belts, ruffs, and beaver hats. England in America, 1580-1652 "I'll bet you ten pounds there's no limit as to time in the rules of this club—I mean as regards card-playing," the young man said, boldly. Prince Fortunatus At Piccadilly Circus he bought a boutonniere, and as he was feeling slightly rocky after a late night at card-playing, he dropped into the St. James. In Friendship's Guise As card-playing was one of the leading pastimes of the day, rooms were set aside at these dancing assemblies for those who preferred "brag" and other fashionable games with cards. Woman's Life in Colonial Days Sunday afternoons were the big gambling and card-playing times in our semi-rural neighbourhood. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Rough play may have been in the mind of the card-playing, spirit-drinking scoundrels that occupied the other seats in the compartment, but Vivie in her man's dress created a certain amount of suspicion and caution. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement And sometimes he returned thither after the performance, seeking anew the distraction of card-playing and betting, until he became notorious as the fiercest plunger in the place. Prince Fortunatus I used to have pretty good luck playing a lone hand in our old card-playing days, Thelismer. The Ramrodders A Novel The shadow of that awful tragedy at Monte Carlo is over her still, and she looks upon anything like card-playing as savoring of the pit. Bessie's Fortune A Novel Sunday was a day set apart for hunting, fishing, horse-racing, card-playing, balls, dances, and all kinds of jollity and mirth. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made In the first case the training in card-playing also seems to have a certain influence, but in the second case, our real experiment on decision, this influence does not seem to exist. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency "There's your confounded money; what a fool of a club to let you stay here all night if you like, and to stop card-playing at three!" Prince Fortunatus When the weather is fine I go out; then the card-playing takes place in my aunts' apartments instead of mine. The Story of Versailles She would not have Bland suspect the state of her affairs, and while he remained in the house she took her part in all that went on, which included card-playing for high stakes. Ranching for Sylvia He was a "wild, wicked boy," he tells us, and grew up to delight in horse-racing, card-playing, and dancing. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made "Do you mean by card-playing?" asked Dietrich rather contemptuously, for he had made up his mind about that long ago. Veronica And Other Friends Two Stories For Children But all his relatives and friends were forgotten—wife and child and all—in his love for drink and card-playing. Thrift Among the many pastimes to which the young resort for amusement, card-playing often fills a prominent place. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness Christmas is specially a card-playing season, a time of Pax to everybody. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 The card-playing travellers had opened the door of the carriage. Max I spent an evening at the club-rooms, where there was some heavy card-playing. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The games on deck, the smoking and card-playing in the gentlemen's room, the sleeping and the eating all went on uninterrupted. Story of Chester Lawrence With all the dangerous associations and tendencies of card-playing, would they have their children acquire a passion for it? Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness No use of tobacco, no card-playing, and no throwing of dice was allowed. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 He was subconsciously aware that, deserted though the compartment was, it yet exhaled an alien suggestion, embodied in the rugs, the coats, the hand-baggage of the card-playing travellers, which was heaped upon the seat opposite. Max There was music and dancing, tea-drinking and card-playing, gossip and silence at varied and irregular intervals. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The rage for card-playing, the gluttony, the drunkenness, the continual talk always about the same thing. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories The same caution I have uttered in regard to card-playing, I would apply to all games of hazard and chance. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness Observe the high use he has for liberty—drinking, card-playing, gambling, luxury; he has no place in his life for any worthy deeds, nay, only scorn for such. Principles of Freedom The soldiers indulge much in card-playing and gambling with dice-throwing and other ways. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Something had to be done to pass away the time, and card-playing was considered an innocent amusement. History of Kershaw's Brigade Sermons are frequently preached against dancing, card-playing, and theater-going, and members have been dismissed from Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches for indulging in these forbidden amusements. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution And in due time, the young man becomes a gambler, from no other cause than that he acquired a love for card-playing, when he engaged in it only as an amusement. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness On a sudden he took a love to card-playing, and addicted himself to it with such earnestness that he neglected his business and squandered his money. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Some heavy card-playing on board, and imprudent losses, which I much regretted to see. Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic There was but little talking, of course, during the card-playing: at the end of it Mr. Roscorla found he had only lost half a sovereign. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Three scholars were publicly admonished for thievery, and one degraded below five in his class, because he had been before publicly admonished for card-playing. A Collection of College Words and Customs If, from its influences, card-playing, even for amusement, is improper for gentlemen, I conceive it much more so for ladies. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness Your papa's a young man, with no heart trouble and lots of money; he can afford to have a card-playing son what has to have second breakfast alone every morning! Every Soul Hath Its Song There was card-playing going on in the saloon one night, and he was looking on. The Way of an Eagle One by one he recalled his sins—smoking and chewing tobacco, drinking whisky and beer, stealing, lying, card-playing, betting, gambling, and many other things; but these he had already given up. How John Became a Man Life Story of a Motherless Boy There was the usual measure of dining, dancing, supping, card-playing, and gossiping, which prevailed in country towns at the time. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Drunkenness, smoking, dicing, card-playing, and every kind of licence were permitted, or connived at; and the stronger prisoners were allowed to plunder the weaker. The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance The point is that there had to be some other way of entertaining the company at the party, besides drinking, card-playing, or dancing. Vandemark's Folly As father unfolded the nature of card-playing and gambling, a horror for them that has never left me came into my heart. The value of a praying mother There was hard drinking, horse-racing, and card-playing, and waste of substance generally. Hodge and His Masters However, ingenuity had just suggested card-playing for King Charles’ amusement, and he paid little attention nowadays to any one save his opponent at this new game. Chivalry But where the Evangelical influence reached, it brought a marked abstention from such forms of recreation as dancing, card-playing, and the drama. Collections and Recollections The custom of card-playing has led to the gaming-table, and been the ruin of thousands. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland As I knew nothing of the evil of card-playing, I was eager to learn; for he gave me much praise and allowed me to win very often, always rewarding me with a pile of candy. The value of a praying mother She wouldn't go tearing over the country racing and gambling and then card-playing far into the night if you were there to pull her up. The Obstacle Race Instead she was afraid another would be difficult to get after living there, for the house had a very indifferent character; there was far too much card-playing, and such like. The Old Curiosity Shop I saw clearly that to her all this was, more than anything else, a means of forgetting, an intoxication, just as hunting, card-playing, and my functions at the Zemstvo served the same purpose for me. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Machinery has been called into requisition in card-playing. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) The worst of all was that card-playing, which the court had taken from the army, soon spread from the court into the city, and from the city pervaded the country towns. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) "Now," she said—"now that the pastime of card-playing is over, we will return to the serious business of life, which is the catching—no, 'KILLING' of lake trout." Blix I recalled my mental states from the midnight prayer to the foolish card-playing. The War of the Worlds They seldom dance; but card-playing begins at midnight, and a dainty supper is served before the departure of the guests. The Count's Millions In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories While making his inquiry Taylor glanced into the back room, and saw the guests sitting round, card-playing, and drinking, and otherwise enjoying themselves at Donn's expense. Jude the Obscure He has no money to spare—hardly enough to use; and that has led him into card-playing—Middlemarch is a great place for whist. Middlemarch There was, he contended, some diversion and diversity in card-playing. De Libris: Prose and Verse "One more trial," said George to himself, "and nobody will catch me card-playing for money again with strangers." Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City There was plenty of rough sport and card-playing, and a good deal of drinking. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I She was reared in a luxurious home, where card-playing, theater-going, dancing, and all other high society amusements were continually indulged in. Fifteen Years with the Outcast The rats and the spiders can take their own pleasure in the rooms that were full of music and dancing, card-playing and feasting, two or three months ago. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger You initiated the banker's clerk into the mysteries of card-playing and billiards. Run to Earth A Novel There was no more laughing and card-playing that evening, though she kept up her motherly, suave, good-humoured way with the men. England, My England "It's better than dicing or card-playing!" said the blacksmith. There & Back Her son, she learned, had been discharged for card-playing and frequenting the pool room. Fifteen Years with the Outcast In the meanwhile, dancing had commenced in several spacious rooms; in others, card-playing was being indulged in. The Secrets of the Great City Mrs. Fanshaw was a card-playing lady, who had been educated at a time when it was not thought necessary for women to have any knowledge, or any taste for literature. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Ah, poor Isabella had been driven mad by a card-playing aunt at Bath, and was in fact the most hopeless case there. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 He has evidently made up his mind to test the value of card-playing for wine, and thinks himself—as his will be the injury, if any—the best judge of the wisdom of that experiment. A Study of Hawthorne Does this cause the smoking, drinking, swearing, card-playing, Godless parents to halt and reflect? Fifteen Years with the Outcast It is not etiquette for those very fond of card-playing to victimize every guest by producing cards whenever they call, whether they care for playing or not. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Not yet; but I have met her mother often in town—a silly, card-playing woman. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 All that petty Tunbridge society of women and card-playing seemed child's-play to him now he had tasted the delight of London life. The Virginians Some of its apartments were elaborately furnished, others devoid of everything except a table for card-playing and a game's complement of chairs. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway His hand was very soft, as is usual with men who play cards much—and well; and it held tenaciously—again a characteristic of the card-playing hand. Fan : the story of a young girl's life It is a violation of etiquette to propose card-playing in another person's house. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. "Nor suppers, and a bit of card-playing, eh, Percy?" Five Little Peppers Grown Up He has had the devil's luck here, and has been winning everything, whilst his old card-playing beldam of an aunt has been losing. The Virginians Many of the young men studying for the ministry often spent a large part of the night in card-playing, and the Sunday-school room served also as a dancing-floor. To Infidelity and Back ‘A card-playing old age is despicable,’ pronounced Miss Emily, much to our amusement. Chantry House Kumodini Babu’s was a favourite rendezvous, and much time was killed there in conversation, card-playing, and chess. Tales of Bengal That meetings be held in rotation at each member's house, for the enjoyment of conversation; music, grave and gay; dancing, gay only; and card-playing at limited stakes. Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby I had rather sit quiet generally of a Saturday evening," says sober Mr. Wolfe; "at any rate, away from card-playing and scandal; but I own, dear Mrs. Lambert, I am under orders. The Virginians Thus when he began, "Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing;" Garrick would make this arch comment on his proem; "Now he is considering which side he shall take." Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives It is possible that a succession of runs of luck might have put an end to my professional career; it is certain that the opposite result put an end to my card-playing aspirations. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) He would dearly have loved a game with some one, for he had the soul of a gambler, but Mrs. Corbett's decree against card-playing was well known. The Black Creek Stopping-House The prisoners, who formerly spent their time wholly in idleness or in card-playing, were now busily at work. Excellent Women Afterwards the old man came to church more regularly, and George had quit swearing, and given up card-playing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 His nephew-biographer writes of him: "He never gave himself the pastime of going to parties where there was drinking and card-playing, having always had a dislike for such." Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People There is no purple left to infect a man with, in the modern slum of Royalty!" he said; "Tobacco-smoke, not incense, perfumes the palaces of the great nowadays—and card-playing is more appreciated than music! Temporal Power He seems to have been a respectable, but narrow-minded man, who loved long devotions and many services, and looked upon dancing, card-playing and stage-plays as works of the Evil One. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century You cannot consecrate your alcohol, nor your tobacco, nor your opium, nor your card-playing, nor your dancing, nor your theatre-going to God. The Theology of Holiness Life was not much to look forward to,—the stretch it had been before: study, and the war, and hard common sense,—the theatre,—card-playing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 He used to say that as a boy he was a very mean one, saucy, quarrelsome, and wicked, liked horse-racing and card-playing—both alike disreputable in those times. Our Friend John Burroughs The thought may be trite, the philosophy leagues behind the doctrines of the Berlin Aufgeklärter, but it shows a soul above card-playing or court-gossip. Without Prejudice I think the knowledge of card-playing can result in no harm to you, shielded as you will be, but it might to your brother. From Jest to Earnest We cannot consecrate our alcohol, or our tobacco, or our opium, or our card-playing, or dancing, or theater-going to God. The Theology of Holiness He had repeatedly warned me against card-playing; but Frau Hofrath Böhme, as long as she lived, contrived to persuade me, after her own fashion, by declaring that my father's warnings were only against the abuse. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life The scene after the card-playing, which is so fine in the play, is inefficient in music. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music "I have looked at your fingers," said he, "and my fancy for card-playing has gone," and he struck them dead and threw them out into the water. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Nevertheless, he was faultlessly dressed in full evening costume, and I rightly conjectured he was going to spend the night in some fashionable dissipation such as dancing or card-playing. True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place Archie was asked to join, but he told them he didn't know anything about card-playing. The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Still, card-playing is a somewhat precarious source from which to derive an income, so Vandeloup soon found himself pretty hard up, and was at his wit's end how to raise money. Madame Midas If the passer-by will for a few moments stay his course, he will witness the ingress and egress of negroes; if he approach the door, he will hear noise as of card-playing and revelry within. Manuel Pereira Dancing was a favourite diversion and card-playing also. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism The Sunday's observance in Abbot's Manor, always rigorously insisted upon by her father, would not be desecrated by card-playing and gambling under his daughter's sway. God's Good Man Being an invalid as you see, I have no amusement but card-playing. The Secret Passage When the card-playing was over I showed the young men a few tricks and feats, which they worked at themselves, to the great amusement of the girls, till they had accomplished them all. In Wicklow and West Kerry They rang for the cards, and he soon forgot that there was such a thing as depression or gloom in the world, in the pleasure of teaching such a beautiful ignoramus the mysteries of card-playing. Ruth Why, no one here has even heard of such a thing as card-playing circles. The Inspector-General Kipling's version of this card-playing does not agree in all particulars with the version here written. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after His speciality was swindling, billiard-playing, card-playing, borrowing money, obtaining goods, never risking more than two or three coups in a year. For the Term of His Natural Life In all classes of people there was an epidemic of dancing, jazzing, card-playing, theater-going. Now It Can Be Told Two of them were grumbling over one of the rules of the road—a rule which forbade card-playing on the trains on Sunday. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories I have looked at your fingers," said he, "and my fancy for card-playing has gone, and he struck them dead and threw them out into the water. The Junior Classics — Volume 1 From a glimpse of the interior Nella saw that they had spent the voyage in card-playing. The Grand Babylon Hotel There was a good deal of card-playing in the place, but somehow I never succumbed to that temptation. The Rise of David Levinsky A passion for card-playing is called forth, developed, and must be satisfied, even though it takes one in low places among vile associates. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes They would not like it to have the Sabbath desecrated by card-playing on the train.' The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories The Governor of the place has his public reception every Sunday evening, when card-playing is the regular amusement. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 In these sermons Latimer used the card-playing of the season for illustrations of spiritual truth drawn from the trump card in triumph, and the rules of the game of primero. Sermons on the Card There was a good deal of card-playing in the cars, but that never had any attraction for me. The Rise of David Levinsky It is under such circumstances as these that young men and young women receive their first lessons in card-playing. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes His look was angry—severe enough for boys caught card-playing, or drinking, or reading something that was not divinity on a Sunday. Sir Gibbie She thought dancing and card-playing dangerous pastimes—only rough people did such things when she was a girl in Vermont—and "worldliness" only another word for wickedness. One of Ours Other amusements they have none in this place, except private parties of card-playing, which are far from being expensive. Travels through France and Italy I kept the appointment in a room where card-playing is continually in progress; and, after tea had been drunk, efforts were made to induce me to gamble. Poor Folk The inmates of our penitentiaries to-day, almost to a man, testify that "card-playing threw them into bad company, led them into sin, and was one of the causes of their downfall." Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes But it was evident that to precocious habits of drinking, smoking, chewing, and card-playing this overgrown youth added a strong tendency to exaggeration of statement. A Waif of the Plains All the years of their marriage she had been ever complaisant toward him in his card-playing. On the Makaloa Mat On the contrary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it is admitted that he contracted debts and had "an ungovernable passion for card-playing." The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 This circumstance, added to our card-playing, though small, which we could not dispense with, has led us into debts. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 Dudley seems to have paid several visits to the Hydes, his connections; this is proved by entries in his household books of sums of money for card-playing there.* The Valet's tragedy, and other studies Smoking and card-playing were perseveringly carried on all day and all night; it can easily be imagined that things did not go so quietly as at an English whist-party. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North Bud and Bill sat down, evidently to resume their card-playing. The Young Forester Horses, carriages, servants, dresses, balls, dinners, card-playing all night, a perpetual carnival: it must be ruinous!” Other People's Money Her pleasures comprised an evening with someone of her own class, card-playing, at which she won, and a midnight supper. The Mystery of Orcival The testimony of his creditors, and of other persons with whom he associated distinctly proves that his leisure hours on shore had been employed in card-playing and in betting on horse races. The Evil Genius It was now quite plain to me that the General's peculiar method of card-playing had, thus far, not been discovered and exposed. The Black Robe Why, he ain't been out of the Academy only two years, and he's been telling me how card-playing ain't good for you. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Through excellent card-playing he won a pinto from a small Mexican horse-thief who came into town from the South, and who cried bitterly when he delivered up his pet pony to the new owner. Lin McLean Generally he has one or two guests staying with him—men of the same type as himself—and days and nights are spent in drinking and card-playing. Russia But we were mostly strong and hearty, and at that age a man takes a deal of killing; so we used to have a little card-playing at night to pass away the time. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Even if a landowner of the day sets up a library, he never looks at a single book in it, but soon relapses into card-playing—the usual pursuit. Dead Souls There was some card-playing going on at this moment. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border The pleasant dream was at an end, and the fashionable world, giving up its former habits, took to harmless occupations—card-playing, dissipation, and the reading of French light literature. Russia She was long accustomed to a numerous military society, with dinner-parties, dancing, promenades, card-playing, and all the other amusements of garrison life, and she never contracted a taste for domestic concerns. Russia Another day or two idling and card-playing, another headache after too much grog at night, brought us to a regular go in about business, and then we fixed it for good. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields There was card-playing for small stakes, idle jests of coarse nature, much bantering among the younger fellows, and occasionally a mild quarrel. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border |
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