| 单词 | dice box |
| 例句 | He saw a candlelit room with a vast white-counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice box and laughing excitedly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z On the right is Wall street, where fortunes are made and lost as by the turn of a card, or rattle of a dice box. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z A few of the members nearest the door glanced up, eyed the youth curiously, and returned to their dice boxes. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Haven't I left the mark of a dice box upon every table?—was there a morning I didn't take a sandwich? or a day passed, without my drinking my four bottles? Fontainbleau 2011-03-30T02:00:17.797Z In those of the 9th to the 11th century various simple forms are seen, some resembling our modern tumbler in shape, others like a dice box. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" One of the Spaniards, true son of a gambling race, immediately produced a dice box, which he still carried with him, long after he had parted with other apparently more valuable possessions. Long Live the King “Don’t be rash, Dolly,” remarked Young William to the man with the hideous neck, who held the dice box. The Tale of Timber Town If I throw the dice box twenty times, and the same numbers always turn up, I cannot resist the conclusion that the dice must have been loaded. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election I must be content now to sit and wait until this part of me—my relation to myself—splinters into fragments and I become a dice box shaking with mysterious and invisible combinations. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath But now at once appeared before her, with all the vividness of reality, the banquet hall, ringing with the shrill laughter of the heated revellers, as, with the dice box, they decided her future fate. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The Dice and the Dice Box.—A dice box and two dice are held in the hand, and the question is to throw one die into the air and catch it in the box. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 A dice box on top of the glass-covered case was the means by which the yokels were assured they could extract the jewelry, bank notes, etc. Watch Yourself Go By I confess to more interest in the dice boxes and dice, some of which the sly old Celtic foxes had loaded. Set in Silver He gripped the dice box, glared at Drennen angrily, hesitated, then with a sudden gesture turned out the dice. Wolf Breed A dice box with the ivories inside flew across the table hurled with the full strength of a vigorous shapely arm. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Instead of playing for ten and one hundred dollars, as white men and women gamble up-town, the Chinese boys were huddling intently over dice boxes, or playing fan-tan with fevered zeal for ten cents. The Canadian Commonwealth With a full rather than an empty purse, the young squire was soon seen with a cheerful party over the wine bottle, and, at another time, with a gambling group gathered round the dice box. Strange Pages from Family Papers "I'll take them," cried Green, throwing down two shillings more—and then the table was cleared—the dice box produced, and the crowd drew round. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities He walked toward the private houses that lay scattered over the valley and along the gradual slope of the hills as though carelessly flung from a dice box. The Port of Missing Men If that isn't returning good for evil may I never handle a dice box again. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' If chance is spoken of as an ingredient of the universe, absolutists interpret it to mean that double sevens are as likely to be thrown out of a dice box as double sixes are. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy I took up the dice box, after we had been to the mad-house, and threw half a dozen casts at hazard; but I soon found it was in vain, and checked myself. Anna St. Ives So they brought out the dice box and each cast his lot in turn. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age The club can really trace an ancestry back to 1756, when it was the "Young Club" at Arthur's, the freedom of which Selwyn desired to present in a dice box to William Pitt. Inns and Taverns of Old London The remaining candlesticks lay in a pool of wine on the floor, amid broken glasses, bottles, scattered coins, dice boxes and pewter pots. The Splendid Spur One bought up every grocery store in town and instituted a huge free grab-bag for the populace; and another dropped his hundred thousand in the dice box before it was a week old. Oh, Money! Money! The Symposiarch and his Duties.—"Let's cast for our Symposiarch!" is Prodicus's next order, and each guest in turn rattles the dice box. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life It is neatly made of a solid piece of wood scooped out, in shape like an elongated dice box. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland I can handle a hammer as well as a dice box! School for Scandal A leather pocketbook, a purse, in which was evidently a part of the sum which the bandit had received, with a dice box and dice, completed the possessions of the dead man. The Three Musketeers “Here, you Billebedam, take a run down to Oleson’s cabin like a good fellow, and tell him we want to borrow his dice box.” The Faith of Men Silence fell and was not again broken till Billebedam arrived and threw the dice box on the table. The Faith of Men |
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