| 单词 | gambling hell |
| 例句 | Some businessmen from Mobile had leased the land around it, bought the house, and established what Maycomb thought was a private gambling hell. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Such effects, however, can't be reproduced in theatre where it takes 30 seconds of blackout and background music, allowing the heroine time to change her costume, before she appears in the gambling hell. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z It is displayed on the 17th of March in nearly every rum shop, gambling hell, and thieves' den in New York. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Then there is the Casino, “the gambling hell,” as it has been called. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z The situation is still awkward, however, because the parsonage finds that her prairie has a wife living, a New York gambling hell, whom he hates but who won't release him. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Some will begin to talk about the gambling hells. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z But on the Riviera there is an old, old lady—the well-known Madame McMahon—who still haunts the gambling hells of the Continent. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z He goes to some gambling hell and gets exceedingly intoxicated there. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z "To outward appearances, but inside it's an opium den, a gambling hell, and worse," Glen replied. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z It had become the gambling hell of the Americas, and it was dangerous to walk its darksome streets at night, without a considerable escort. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z And what mockery--the house of God in the antechamber of a gambling hell! Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z Seeing you have not been here before," said Pharos, "I might explain that this is the most typical thieves' gambling hell in London. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Go into the corrupt, poisonous atmosphere of those gambling hells, and there you will find women every day and every hour. The Progressionists, and Angela. They walk long and steadily, and the talk falls on gambling hells. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Small candy stores and grocery back-rooms harbor policy shops, lotteries, and regular gambling hells, where the boys are taught how to buck the tiger on a penny scale. The Children of the Poor Was he justified in taking this comely young fellow into the grim uncertainty that lay ahead, into the jaws of the specter grinning waitingly behind the red lights of Bart Coogan's gambling hell at Gunnison? The Song of the Wolf My faith, it will be a heavy change if they make that into the fashionable gambling hell of Europe. The Recipe for Diamonds The crowd was all afoot, and moved restlessly to and fro from one bar or gambling hell to another. Gold Then he said he guessed Santa Fé did not ketch his meaning, and Monte Carlo was the biggest gambling hell there was. Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town I've holed up in a few gambling hells where drinks and scraps went pretty lively. Valley of Wild Horses The two of them had handed him a floating Bethel, turning their gambling hell over to him as though it were a night’s lodging, or a snack, or a handful of hickory nuts. The River Prophet We headed for our point of departure—the Rue Saint Louis; for I knew that in that neighbourhood lay the principal gambling hells. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West “Faro is played only in gambling hells and mining camps.” In Her Own Right He boasted that he had lost money in every gambling hell in Europe, and vowed that he would give up racing in disgust if ever a horse of his won a race. The Explorer At night the place presented an animated spectacle; for about every third shanty was either a drinking den or a gambling hell. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography She was not prepared to find that Buck had taken his departure and that Parson Rasba was converting the gambling hell into a mission boat. The River Prophet It is true that the Old West of the stories is almost gone; that Billings, Miles City, Bismarck, are more given to Doric banks than to gambling hells. Free Air Joss houses and mission schools, grocery stores and opium dens, gambling hells and theaters—all of them went. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The gambling hells knew him; he became an adept at poker and faro; and he soon learned how to correct or to compel fortune. American Sketches 1908 It is one of the most infamous gambling hells in the city. Under the Rebel's Reign The back room of the Indian trader's store is often the scene of this tuition—barroom, assignation house, gambling hell in one. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska One night they caught the chief—that's what I used to call my father—caught him alone in a gambling hell in the cow town where the stockmen came to buy provisions. The Highgrader There is a reference on page 112 to "gambling hells", which seems to be a genuine term, although it could be a typo for "gambling halls". Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror There never was a seedier lot round a table in a gambling hell. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order It was a sore test to my courage thus to meet the ugly chill of death in a Parisian gambling hell—in a place of such ill-repute. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV His sudden and sweeping descents upon the gambling hells, and other disreputable places of the city, have stricken terror to the frequenters thereof. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City He was brought home to me one night, a pistol-shot through his heart, received in a low gambling hell. Medoline Selwyn's Work They raid some little joint where the Chinese boys are playing fan-tan for ten cents, when they do not raid up-town gambling hells where white men play for hundreds of dollars. The Canadian Commonwealth And lo! less than eighteen months afterwards I was rooked of a lot of money in a gambling hell in the Palais Royal. Tales Of Hearsay "You blackguard," he said, "you are taking that handkerchief to a gambling hell." Mike Fletcher A Novel Of course Lacville was a queer place—to put it plainly, little better than a gambling hell. The Chink in the Armour Yet there youth is only seen in its depravity, while old age flocks to the central gambling hell to excite or mortify its jaded appetites by playing a game it is bound to lose. Success (Second Edition) Hundreds of thousands of dollars every year leak out without observation from the merchant's till into the gambling hell. The Abominations of Modern Society I was dealing the cards a few minutes later, when the long-haired man emerged from the gambling hell, and imitating the maudlin, sauntered up to the bar and asked for a drink. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Lizzie besought Mike not to play again, and she nearly upset the apple-cart by angrily telling Thigh she did not wish her house to be turned into a gambling hell. Mike Fletcher A Novel If one said "gambling hell" in Europe it would sound as if it meant a most desperate place, with people drunk, and impossible to go into, but here not at all! Elizabeth Visits America They had met in a strange way, some ten years ago, in what Miss Farrow's sterner brother-in-law had called a gambling hell. From out the Vasty Deep Brackenbury began to wonder if this were indeed a gambling hell: it had so much the air of a private inquisition. New Arabian Nights It has been in its time a dancing-hall and a gambling hell and God knows what else. Greenmantle After their arrival the nightly proceedings at the Britannia bar and at the gambling hell behind it became more riotous than ever. The Captain of the Polestar He had evidently lived in varied cities and very motley societies, for some of his cheerfullest stories were about gambling hells and opium dens, Australian bushrangers or Italian brigands. The Innocence of Father Brown He went straight to a filthy gambling hell, lost a lot of money and got dead drunk. Till the Clock Stops Now in what part of London shall we look for a gambling hell, Mr. Walmsley? An Amiable Charlatan Upstairs, if one could get upstairs, a gambling hell supplanted the billiard hall below. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale That's the worst of the clubs," she said, "they lead 'em to the gambling hells. The Christian A Story He said it did a great deal of good—much more good than all the gambling hells of London did harm. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) "If you were a prince, Mr. Pugh, would you find it pleasant to be in the pay of a gambling hell?" The Prince and Betty The last time I heard of her she had been turned out of a gambling hell in his company. In the Quarter The quarter here was full of dives and gambling hells and resorts frequented by the worst in crimeland—but it seemed that the Mole's injunction had been obeyed to the letter! The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale The tone, if not the precise words of the description, rather suggested that here was a gambling hell whose lower circles were dedicated to rites of nameless infamy. Nonsenseorship You've done all you could to give my respectable, first-class house the name of a low gambling hell. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century "Suppose some enterprising person began to run a gambling hell in Piccadilly, would the authorities look on and smile?" The Prince and Betty Runs a combination gambling hell and boarding house. King of the Khyber Rifles It is another woman than the "queen of the gambling hell" who smiles back at her. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance It was shut in by rows of saloons, gambling hells and cheap, dirty boarding and lodging houses. In His Steps He recalled the scene in the gambling hell, only this time she fronted away from the camera. Merton of the Movies Well of course in all those shipping-ports there are low quarters where the sea-faring people congregate; and after some time I got taken on as servant in one of the gambling hells there. The Gadfly Built over-night, destined to remain if the mines were rich, and to melt away if they pinched out, the gambling hells were sometimes the veriest makeshifts. Down the Mother Lode He knew them all, men from the camps and the line, men from the hills and mining claims, men from the saloons and the gambling hells. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies "Or a gambling hell," said his brother reflectively. Devil's Ford The cabaret of yesterday had overnight been transformed into a palatial gambling hell. Merton of the Movies He admitted that he had no "specific occupation," that he hung around the gambling hells a good deal, that he followed the horses—that, frankly, he lived by his wits. The White Moll Life that night in the gambling hell went on much as usual. Down the Mother Lode It is as if a man were found gambling wildly in a gambling hell, and you found that he only played for trouser buttons. Manalive If he did lose his money in a gambling hell, he knew who won it, and spoke with his opponent on the homeward way. A Book of Scoundrels In out-of-the-way places, low groggeries, restaurants, and saloons; in gambling hells and dance houses, the master, preceded by Mliss, came and went. Selected Stories of Bret Harte He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. The Magic Skin They supported row upon row of saloons, alike stuffy and squalid; gambling hells of all sorts; refreshment "parlours," where drinks were served by dozens of "pretty waiter-girls," and huge dance-halls. The Riverman Do you understand all the force and frenzy in a soul which impatiently waits for the opening of a gambling hell? The Magic Skin |
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