英语词汇“monte”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

He’d learned sleight of hand from the cardsharps and monte runners on East Stave, and spent hours practicing it in front of a muddy mirror he’d bought with his first week’s pay. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On any given late afternoon or evening, up to a dozen serious men might be seated around this table intently playing cards—poker, blackjack, monte, hearts, even bridge occasionally, you name it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yakov won the first two games, but when it came time to find the Lady at three-card monte, he uncovered a worthless heart. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Class now is really like three-card monte,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Video images and simulcasts, as deft as the hands of a three-card monte artist, keep your eyes moving so you often know where sounds and images originate. Review: Who Am I? ‘Panorama’ Says There Is No Easy Answer 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Booth wants Lincoln to team up with him for a three-card monte scam. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The book’s nurses have none of the clinical insight or skill of actual nurses, but they’re eager to reveal their montes pubis for the interns. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The exhibition’s only allusion to performance art, they show her in front of a grated storefront conducting a three-card monte game. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

Images of a floral arrangement, in color and black and white, alternate with exposed brick in a kind of three-card monte. Art in Review: ADAM MARNIE: ?Locus Rubric? 2011-09-29T21:52:31Z

Here was the smartest rocker, the LSE student, being taken in a game of three-card monte. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Not all of them are cheap hustlers sitting at tables at subway stops or in parks, offering you a shot a being the first person ever to win at three-card monte or the shell game. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.” Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z

He was not popular with the three-card monte guys. Penn and Teller, Reconjured on Broadway 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Yet despite being in the anonymous, cathedral-size Marquis, “Penn & Teller on Broadway” feels almost as intimate as a sidewalk game of three-card monte. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Booth’s career goal is to go into three-card monte, too, but he does not have his big brother’s gift. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ at the Two River Theater Company 2012-09-22T05:19:06Z

Lincoln was once a whiz at three-card monte, but he now has a steady job playing his namesake, the 16th president, in an arcade where customers pay to mock-assassinate him. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

If anti-environmentalist politics resemble a game of three-card monte, it’s one in which all the cards are face up and the marks place their bets on a nonexistent ace. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

And then they’re surprised or caught off guard at the end, which is what Corey refers to as the “three-card monte” trick within the play. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

In depicting three-card monte Parks is also depicting capitalism, the über-hustle. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a three-card monte as to who winds up where with what and whom. At 82, ‘NCIS’ actor David McCallum has written a delicious crime caper 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Feeling that the game was rigged, young Bernie Sanders tried to get each of the three-card monte players in Brooklyn broken up into three one-card monte players. Style Invitational: B all you can B — a neologism contest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The only surprise is that Roberts shuns cheap jump scare surprises in favor of well-crafted suspense scenes that play out like a game of three card monte. ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’ Review: They Go Way Back 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

The price — barely $100 per night — inspired suspicion, and I approached the lobby as I would approach a game of three-card monte. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The two-character comedy “Topdog/Underdog,” developed at the Public Theater, caught his fancy in part because the plot involved three-card monte. Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Like three-card monte, or jazz, the play — and, at its best, Kenny Leon’s direction of it — moves too fast for analysis. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Lincoln supports them with a gig as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and Booth spends his days shoplifting, aggressively trying to woo an ex and planning his debut as a master of three-card monte. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

At one point, when Lincoln practices his three-card monte skills, the red light that floods around him is as hypnotic as his con-man patter. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Corey Hawkins plays Lincoln, a three-card monte hustler turned Abraham Lincoln impersonator in an arcade shooting game, opposite Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the boastful, envious Booth, for whom inheritance is everything. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

I collaborated with the people at Peculiar on the concept of three-card monte. Behind the Poster: '3 Christs' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

If you see anyone playing three-card monte or a shell game, just keep walking. Traveling soon? Look out for these new tourism scams 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z

"The old three card monte guys had to wait for people to walk around. Now you can reach out and find the three card monte enthusiast, and get them to come to you." Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

Another Pulitzer winner now in a blistering Broadway revival, Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog,” features as its dramatic linchpin the art of the street hustle, in three-card monte. Perspective | A casino in hectic Times Square? This theater critic says heck no. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

Hawkins invests Lincoln with a scathingly funny pride of slickness, in his virtuosic manner of moving the three monte cards around a piece of cardboard mounted on milk crates. Review | Broadway’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ pits two fine actors in blistering battle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Crime plummeted, corporate profits soared, and three-card monte dealers in Times Square gave way to Disney characters. Review | How Rudy Giuliani, once a national hero, ruined his own reputation 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

And if he keeps playing three-egg monte with you, then maybe he'll turn out to have been right about your splitting up to trade up, only in a self-fulfilling-prophetic kind of way. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband is stalling on kids but upset that wife might freeze eggs 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

The old three card monte guys in New York had to wait for people to walk around. Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

“In the name of democratizing finance, what I am seeing is a game of three-card monte where they are moving balls around hoping people don’t understand the game is rigged,” Mr. Awrey said. Big Hires, Big Money and a D.C. Blitz: A Bold Plan to Dominate Crypto 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

When it comes to pitching strategy, the Dodgers are the slick street hustler and the opponent is the mark, certain to fall for their three-card monte act. Atlanta Bought in Bulk to Replace the Irreplaceable 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

This preacher with the gray, combed-back hair speaks of the con man’s game of three-card monte, as well as the Bible’s blind beggar, Bartimaeus. Perspective | The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Perversely, a monte cristo is also sometimes dusted with icing sugar. One box of eggs – 17 delicious ways to use them, from french toast to huevos rancheros 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Now you can reach out and find the three card monte enthusiast and get them to come to you, instead of the other way around. Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

Nunes compared the proceedings against President Trump to "three-card monte" and the medieval Inquisition. Nunes slams impeachment 'three-card monte,' then yields to Schiff for 'storytime hour' 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Decades back, my wife and I were newly married, and we wandered in a fine mood through Manhattan and came upon a game of three-card monte. Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Donald Trump, a lifelong resident of New York, most certainly watched street hustlers run their con with games such as three-card monte on unsuspecting tourists and other marks. Trump’s USA Today op-ed: The real point was to threaten his enemies with violence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The San Francisco Bulletin cheered the exit of the notorious figure it dubbed the “Mariposa monte dealer.” A hungry congressman didn’t get the breakfast he ordered. So he shot the waiter. 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

“It really amounts to a game of three-card monte,” he added. 4 Years After Eric Garner’s Death, Secrecy Law on Police Discipline Remains Unchanged 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

This man would be right at home playing 3 card monte in front of Trump Tower. Trump Says He Is Willing to Speak Under Oath to Mueller 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

He won with the tools that have cast spells on Alabama voters for two centuries: race, religion, hysterical oratory, intimidation of critics and economic three-card monte dealt by big-business hand jivers. Opinion | Roy Moore’s Alabama 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Let them treat truth like the money card in a game of three-card monte. ‘Compromise’ means America always finds a way to sell black people out 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

They’ll keep playing three-card monte with you while you keep thinking you know which cup has the penny in it. Greg Palast: Trump’s tax cuts are more evidence America’s greedy billionaires have staged a political coup 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

When Albamonte sensed the judge leaning toward the former, she seized his offer to delay the hearing for a month. She helped deport hundreds of undocumented immigrants. Now she’s fighting for them. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Business will not fall for Mr Trumps three card monte tricks to bring back manufacturing to US soil. What Trump Gets Right on Trade 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

But upending trade agreements, creating jobs that manufacture goods people cannot pay for, or that will be heavily tarrifed by other countries, is really just a game of three-card monte. 2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?) 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Of course, it s almost impossible to win a game of three-card monte against a dealer as skilled as Andrew Jones. Donald Trump’s diversity hustle: His “best black friend” and a few women can’t conceal his true agenda 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

He said he realized he was among the last of the monte dealers, and the youth of today “don’t, for some reason, have the same interests.” One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Getting swindled by playing three-card monte was once a common occurrence for tourists in New York City. Mosul, Republican Party, Los Angeles Dodgers: Your Monday Briefing 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The earliest mentions of three-card monte in The New York Times date to the 1850s in articles about farmers losing fortunes to “an unfair game.” A Veteran Con Man Works a New Crowd With an Old Trick 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Patton, the public defender in Manhattan, said the questions surrounding Mr. Rahami’s representation were “starting to look like a game of three-card monte.” Public Defender Says Prosecutor Denied Him Access to Ahmad Rahami 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Defense attorneys likened the state’s case to a game of three-card monte, with prosecutors constantly shifting their theory as to how Gray was injured. Verdict scheduled for Thursday for officer charged in Freddie Gray’s death 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Three-card monte is the name! Played in New York, but originated in Spain!” One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

He also compared prosecutors' case to three-card monte, a con game in which a card is hidden from a bettor. Closing arguments wrap up in Baltimore cop's trial over Freddie Gray death 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Think of it as the Department of Defense’s version of the street con game, three-card monte, or maybe simply as the Pentagon shuffle. The Pentagon’s dark money: Billions of federal dollars are vanishing into thin air 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Having sewn up the nomination, Trump has entered the three-card monte phase of his campaign, in which he shuffles his positions so quickly that the gullible patsy loses track. Ryan and Trump’s painful sham 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The customer essentially is faced with trying to find the queen of hearts in a game of three-card monte. News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

“I practiced everywhere I could,” he said of three-card monte. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, here in Washington, Lafayette Square was overrun by Sciurus carolinensis, the Eastern gray squirrel, a shakedown artist as aggressive as any three-card monte hustler. Remembering the Great Squirrel Purge of Lafayette Square 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

She also looks at small-time street hustlers who entice people with the prospect of riches from three-card monte. The Art of the Con: Maria Konnikova on scams, grifters and being easily duped 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

So is this just another game of economic three card monte – sliding around the dollars but with consumers left with essential the same monthly charge? Verizon Breaks The TV Bundle 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

His academic research, which combines ideas such as monte carlo simulations, genetic algorithms, and machine learning, focuses on how to generation predictive models to explain the relationships between data. Find The Rules Of Your Business With Automated Data Science 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The police said he was first charged with running a monte game, which is a violation of the city’s administrative code, in 1981. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

“I grew up in New York City, and I saw people doing three-card monte,” said Haskel Straus, 64, who is retired from teaching business people a communication technique known as neurolinguistic programming. Where the Father of the Ponzi Scheme Once Slept 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

There is a flash of three-card monte below the surface, as these men sell you on meatballs with your pasta or promise that the lemon cheesecake is “the best you’ll ever have in your life.” Restaurant Review: Carbone in Manhattan 2013-06-04T20:23:13Z

In the monte hustle, a dealer places three slightly curved cards face down on, say, a cardboard box. | Ricky Jay: Straight Talk From a Professor of Flimflam (but Don’t Ask His Age) 2013-04-22T00:47:12Z

Shanahan’s offense relies on a group of players flawlessly executing a combination of roles, but its heartbeat is misdirection and deception — eyes here and the action over there — in football’s version of three-card monte. Washington Redskins’ offense is the three-card monte of the NFL 2013-01-05T23:26:54Z

The police said his record showed 17 arrests involving three-card monte. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Instead, it creates a kind of international trade three-card monte game. Argentina's International Trade Disaster 2012-11-08T20:00:53Z

In the same forests in which one of the two ancestors of lager yeast lives, also lives the monito del monte. Occam s Razor, Flying Monkeys and Musings on Lager Beer 2012-04-26T17:15:00.443Z

The specimen examined was shot at night at about 3:00 a. m. in the beam of a headlight in typical scrub "monte." The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico 2012-04-06T02:00:23.953Z

The tide here ceases; up to this spot "la mar�e monte." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-11T03:00:15.507Z

In the bows, under an awning extemporised out of an old sail, were squatting the two Spaniards, playing at monte with a very dirty pack of cards. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z

It’s ‘slick,’ all right, but it is the slickness of the crooked gambler and the three-card monte man. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z

Judges here show waning patience for the three-card monte act of some banks. Gotham: In a Queens Neighborhood, Signs of Uneven Burdens From a Housing Crisis 2012-02-07T04:00:57Z

Another 60 or 80 horses escaped "en el monte." The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California 2012-02-06T03:00:12.387Z

The first montes pictatis were expressly intended to check the usury of the Jews. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z

The men obeyed, grumbling at their ill-luck, and then resumed their game of monte. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z

The batteries rested, and the commander-in-chief of the beaten army had not even the heart for his evening game of monte. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z

Monte, mon′te, n. a shrubby tract, a forest: a Spanish-American gambling game, played with a pack of forty cards.—Three-card monte, a Mexican gambling game, played with three cards, one usually a court-card. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z

After quitting the monte game I struck out to hunt aunt "Mary" whom I heard had moved to Houston from Galveston. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z

As they drew their pay, the “Kid” and gang were on hand to deal monte and win their money. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z

The first time they played at monte they would be scattering each other's brains over the cards. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z

There was a "three card monte" gang working on the train. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z

It described what is essentially a nuclear version of three-card monte, in which scientists are hidden in organizations with names like “Section for Advanced Development Applications and Technologies” and at universities around Tehran. U.N. Finds Signs of Work by Iran Toward Nuclear Device 2011-11-08T20:28:23Z

There were lots of mexicans working there and after working hours some of them would "deal" monte while the rest of us "bucked." A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z

Finally the two young brigands settled down in Tucson, where Billy’s skill as a monte dealer, and card player kept them in luxuriant style, and gave them prestige among the sporting fraternity. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z

In order to get the money the people have recourse to the monte di piet�—the pawnshop—and the women will pawn the mattress off the bed. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z

There was a little "monte," or wood of "eucalypti," and some were also planted on either side of the drive leading up to the house, forming quite a respectable avenue. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z

At the farther extremity of the low room a dozen players sat at a green-baize table absorbed in monte. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z

The first month's wages went for a fancy pistol, the next, or at least part of it, for a pair of star topped boots and all the balance on "monte," a mexican game. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z

One of these monte dealers had offended Billy, which caused his death. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z

The most popular games were monte, usually conducted by Mexicans, and faro, an American game. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z

October features three-planet monte, Jupiter's reign over the evening sky and the Mall gaining a public observatory. 3-Planet Monte, Meteors and the Mall 2009-10-04T04:00:00Z

There was only a single monte bank "open," and to this Ramirez bent his steps with the peculiar predilections of his race. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z

Not being acquainted in town, time passed off very slowly, so I finally got to "bucking" at my old favorite game—monte. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z

One morning before the break of day, this monte dealer was on his way home; a peon was carrying his fat “bank roll” in a buckskin bag, finely decorated with gold and silver threads. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z

“We’ve been playing three-card monte with these kids, shuffling them from school to school,” he said, “and we forgot about quality education.” District May End Economic Diversity Program 2010-02-27T18:11:00Z

Their movements over the next few weeks resemble the game three-card monte. 3-Planet Monte, Meteors and the Mall 2009-10-04T04:00:00Z

The first syllable of this name appears to be the same as of Cambunii montes, in which the second part is probably the word βοῦνος, which in modern Greek still means “a hill.” The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2

It was again struck with wonder, however; and, for want of a better expression, took a drink and settled down to a game of monte. First Fam'lies of the Sierras

Then Billy and Segura held up and robbed several monte dealers, when on the way home after their games had closed for the night. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z

After our lunch a smoke, and while we smoked a few deals of Spanish monte and a story or two, then back to bunks. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter

Down one side were ranged tables for monte, faro, senate and stud. Stepsons of Light

Two of the well-known sharpers who hung around the camps had enticed little Pete in there, and to a game of three-card monte. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign

That brought up tales of the old games, poker, faro, three card monte, blackjack, roulette—and crapshooting. Noble Redman

When pay day came around the “Kid’s” monte game was raking in money again. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z

Off at the side with bridle reins dragging, four ponies fed on the stubby grass as their owners, two Indians and two cowmen, played Spanish monte. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter

There even was a public gaming house, where civil officers, traders, merchants, travelers, and the clergy grouped avidly around the monte tables and played at fever heat, momentarily beyond the reach of any other obsession. Bring Me His Ears

Johnny, who could never resist the tables, was soon laying very small stakes on monte. Gold

“Well, there isn’t even a moon and we can’t deal monte, 168as if that weren’t the same as giving you what you want, anyway.” The Missourian

Thither Don Luis directed his steps, and, on reaching it, he saw through the open door the Count of Genazahar engaged in playing monte, in which he acted as banker. Pepita Ximenez

"Parturiunt montes" is an easy verdict to pronounce; it remains to be proved whether in this case it is a just one to render. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer

Then he dealt monte and made a pile. Bring Me His Ears

Quick as we were, we found both the padrone and his man, together with a dozen others, already seated at a monte table. Gold

I used to watch them at monte, 6 Down in the cabin at night, and learned to know all of the gamblers. Poems

He'll try anything once, and it don't make no difference to him whether it's three-card monte or a new kind of submarine. Kid Scanlan

Their next move took them to Murphy’s Diggings, where the boy got his job at dealing monte and was doing very well––until this evening came, and with it, tragedy. When the West Was Young

This attack on Charleston to some extent justifies: parturiunt montes, etc. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863

Did you come out ahead on those monte games?” 99Johnny blushed, and laughed a little. Gold

Pan was the only one of Juan's listeners who had power of speech left, and he asked: "Juan, did you play any monte or poker with the queen?" Valley of Wild Horses

Caesar. ad montes, i.e. the rocky hills through which the retreating Pompeians had to pass before they could reach the Ebro valley. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

For the water-carrier was James Boyce, who had played monte over the table of the good-looking young dealer many a night in Murphy’s Diggings. When the West Was Young

Although I employed men to do the work, often players would insist on my dealing the monte deck or laying down the faro lay-out for them. Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer

We never attempted it except in company; and as Johnny seemed fascinated with a certain game called Mexican monte, we often had to endure long waits before all our party was assembled. Gold

During the great week of the Fiesta he had tried everything from roulette to monte, but fortune's wheel had turned steadily against him. When Dreams Come True

"Il monte; il monte toujours"—there was not much said but that. A Little Tour of France

They gambled at monte, quien con, and other games of chance. When the West Was Young

The principal gambling game in those days was Mexican monte, played with forty cards. Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer

Farther to the South, among the Spano-Mexicans, you meet the game of “monte,”—a card game, distinct from all the others. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West

The lieutenant, Don Filipo, was in charge of the spectacle, for the gobernadorcillo was playing monte, of which he was a passionate devotee. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere

Nobody but a blind man can lose at monte, by George!” Desert Dust

Here we must read “in monte Gargano” instead of “in monte Gorgon.” Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities

Above the western monte a lordly eagle with hushed wings rose majestically overhead, and some viscashos popped in a noiseless way in and out of their holes. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

It is a game of Spanish origin, as its name imports; indeed, it differs but little from monte, and was no doubt obtained from the Spaniards of New Orleans. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West

Such a vaunt may be considered to savour of the parturiunt montes apothegm, but the reader may confidently rest assured that whatever shortcomings he may detect they are not the result of negligence. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

Yes, suh, there’s nothing like monte, where any man is privileged to match his eyes against fingers. Desert Dust

Good old tunes are sung previous to calling witnesses to testify to alleged three carde monte acts of a disciple of Christ. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882

He chatted with the peons, hunted wild mares in the monte, and drank cocktails as to the manner born. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

The pork-merchant I met many years afterward, as a successful monte dealer in the “Halls of the Montezumas.” The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West

How much more of a sin is it for the Cuban woman to win five dollars at monte, and buy a goblet? Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899

Jim had disappeared; until when we had made way to another monte table there he was, his hands in his pockets, his cigar half smoked. Desert Dust

It was all a put up job on me, just like they play three card monte on a fresh stranger. The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883

“The trick of cards by which one may always win an albur at monte.” The Tiger Hunter

Those who were asleep awoke only in time to flee; those who were cooking their dinner left it uneaten; those who were playing their favorite game of monte left it unfinished. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality

There is more money lost and won on draw poker in one day in New York than is lost and won in Havana on monte and roulette. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899

They were all mangled and crushed in a moment, in the midst of their game of monte, as they were fighting and quarrelling over the stakes. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant

With the money he had won at monte games and chicken-fights, he intended to set up a drugstore in America. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia

Passengers will beware of playing three-card monte, strap, or any other game of chance, with strangers. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

Here he killed a gambler, José Martinez, over a monte game, on an "even break," being the fraction of a second the quicker on the draw. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado

Let the army general that never sat up all night at a faro bank issue the first order against monte and roulette in Havana. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899

We kindled fires, and, having cooked our supper and eaten it, were sitting around the logs chatting, smoking, and some of the Mexicans, as is their custom, playing at monte. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness

Drawing near, I found the colonel seated in the center, with a blanket spread before him, on which he was dealing the fascinating game of monte. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

After supper I opened up monte, and caught a good many suckers. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

He kept up his record by appearing next at Chihuahua and robbing a few monte dealers there, killing one whom he waylaid with a new companion by the name of Segura. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado

Sanchez had Case deep in his debt, for monte had fascinated him when in liquor. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War

Elated with their good fortune, seized with a mania for monte, in less than a year these unfortunates, so lately respectable and intelligent, became a pair of drunken gamblers. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

They played monte on their spread blankets, staking their tobacco. The Scalp Hunters

While he was a great man at monte, he was a fool at short cards. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

An adroit monte player he was—ready to do a little cheating upon occasions—a capital judge of game “gallos,” ever ready to stake his onzas upon a “main.” The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico

If rouge et noir, or monte, won their doubloons and freight at his saloon, he regretted, but dared not interfere with the amusements of his guests. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Those who worked in these mines during the fall of 1850 were extremely fortunate, but, alas! the monte fiend ruined hundreds. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

But I got some idea of its fruits from the cases brought to me for surgical treatment from the faro and monte tables. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

The confidence men and monte players were in clover. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

There were numerous tables, spread with games,—faro, monte, and roulette,—each surrounded by an absorbed and interested group. The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California

It is by no means improbable that the gambler is now playing monte on some plantation in Cuba. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Of course, poker and euchre, whist and ninepins, to say nothing of monte and faro, are now in constant requisition. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

So some lounged away to the faro and monte tables, which were doing a busy trade; others loitered in the verandah, smoking, and looking at the native women, who sang and danced fandangos before them. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

I was playing monte one night on the Robert E. Lee, when a fellow stepped up to the table and bet me $800. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

What money the saloons failed to get was generally gambled off against brace games of faro or monte. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

Up stairs were private rooms, in which gentlemen met to have a quiet game of poker; while down stairs could be found the greenhorn, just "roped in," and being swindled, at three card monte. The Expressman and the Detective

There was faro and poker for the Americans, monte for the Spaniards, lansquenet for the Frenchmen, and smaller games for the outsiders. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

The chief games played were monte and faro, but no interest attached to the games as such, the winning or losing of money was that which lent fascination to the play. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West

We opened monte, and caught the wheel man for his entire stock, and we had more Christmas presents than anybody in the State. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

However, a slight narrowing of the cold black eyes and a significant sweep of the six-shooter brought every man of them to his knees, with heads bowed over faro lay-outs and on monte tables. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

There was roulette, faro, and monte, all at different points. Wild Bill's Last Trail

Not content with Las Vegas, I followed the road to Albuquerque and Socorro, had some deals there and spent my evenings playing poker, faro and monte with the best and "toughest" of them. Ranching, Sport and Travel

Crowds surrounded the monte tables, on which glittering piles of gold and silver coin were passing from hand to hand according to varying fortune. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West

High Miller and I were playing monte one night on the first J. M. White, and had a good game, and made some money. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Three card monte under the walls of Charlemagne's church! Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life

Faro, roulette, hazard, monte, and the great national game, poker, held high carnival there81 nightly. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers

"Shall we leave our monte and other stuff in town?" asked Juan. Captured by the Navajos

He came so hurriedly that his wardrobe consisted of two 6-shooters and a monte deck of cards, on account of which he was dubbed "Monte" Cash. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

He is now living in West Virginia with his family, and no one would think, to see him, that he used to catch rattlesnakes for a living, or played three-card monte with old Devol. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

As they rode on they found the country dotted over with quintas and country-houses, here called montes, from being generally seated on hills. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters

In olden times, the Mexicans used to travel hundreds of miles, and bring their money with them in order to squander it at their favorite game of monte. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself

He speaks of four montes, which had castles. Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850

One or two lucky hits at monte, and in a few, short hours, lo! the metamorphosis is complete.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Then I thought I would interest them in old monte until the train arrived; so I opened up on an old fish box and soon had them guessing for the baby ticket. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Games of monte and chuckaluck had their devotees, as had also roulette and poker. Mavericks

When his heart is warmest he is tossing a silver dollar in the air and thinking; of monte. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

First we went to inspect the site where the new house is to be built, then on to the pretty little monte near by, where some picturesque photographs were taken of the cavalcade of riders. Argentina from a British Point of View

The voice of the croupier was soon heard announcing that the monte would recommence, and yielding to the pressing invitation of those around me, I resumed my position at the table. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

"Rattlesnake Jack" was about the last man I worked with as a partner playing three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Hungering for the excitement of play he collides amiably with faro and monte and what other deadfalls are rife of the place. Wolfville Nights

Oh, he had had a little monte over-night, and horse, saddle, rifle, revolver, all were gone. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

We paused in this tiny monte, for it is an intensely interesting spot from a botanical point of view, and with care and attention should be so for some years to come. Argentina from a British Point of View

The general feeling of the Church, however, was in favour of the montes. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching

My friend said, "Why, Devol, he has been playing three-card monte." Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Which the day is set an' the Lance shows in the door, as monte sharps would say. Wolfville Nights

By midnight the music dies away and the dancing ceases, but the sombreros bend over the monte blanket and the silver clinks on it till morning. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

The man had suddenly come across it while on foot in the monte, and after wounding it with his Winchester had run it down with his dogs and killed it. Argentina from a British Point of View

These institutions were formed on the model of the montes profani, the system of public debt resorted to by many Italian States. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching

We were playing monte on board the steamer Magnolia, out of New Orleans, one night, and had a very lively game. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

In a little room adjoining the ball-room, with door invitingly open, is the shrine of monte. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875

Close to our door was a long table, with a green cloth, where the Jalapenians were constantly playing monte, from nine in the morning till late at night. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern

Notwithstanding these discomforts, the men are in good spirits, and enjoy themselves in singing, telling stories, and playing monte. What I Saw in California

But before the remainder of us proceeded to our destinations two of the boys discovered a splendid opening for a monte game, in which we could easily recoup all our expenses for the trip. Reed Anthony, Cowman

We were playing monte, and I had beat a man out of twenty- six twenty-dollar gold pieces. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

There in the evening the miners collected, and by faro, poker, or monte managed to lose all that they had washed out during the day. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake

Every gambling house ran from two to three monte layouts, as it was a favorite game of cowmen, especially when they were from the far southern country. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

But he is ardent in his pursuit of amusement and pleasure, and these consist chiefly in the fandango, the game of monte, horse-racing, and bull and bear-baiting. What I Saw in California

The second night there was heavy play, and before ten o'clock the monte bank closed for want of funds, it having been tapped for its last dollar. Reed Anthony, Cowman

I caught a few suckers, and then closed up monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

On all sides the natives drank, sang, and played monte. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado

The Black Elephant was about a block from the livery, and as we entered, a large crowd of bystanders were watching the playing around one of the three monte games which were running. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

She had not appeared at supper, and he had slept little in consequence; in fact, he had spent most of the night playing monte with Joaquin and a dozen other young men in the billiard-room. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California

He was an inveterate gambler, his large professional earnings going into the coffers of the faro and monte dealers. California Sketches, Second Series

At one time on the Upper Mississippi, while playing monte, I caught a Jew from Quincy, Ill., who had been down to St. Louis buying a stock of jewelry. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

But it was no warning to them, and they continued to play their favorite games, Stubb at poker, while Arab gave his attention to monte. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories

The Rebel had given us the slip during the race, though none of us cared, as we knew he was hungering for a monte game. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

Better stay at home, and prepare thy soul with three-card monte" "Ay, señorita, but thou art cruel! The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California

I was with Ben till daylight, at the monte game; they all tell you. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On

We had been playing monte one night on the steamer Southern Belle, out from New Orleans, and had closed up. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

The abandoned ranchita in the monte—the meeting point—had been at one time a stone house of some pretensions, where had formerly lived its builder, a wealthy, eccentric recluse. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories

The dealer was waiting for me to cut the cards, and stopping only to wring Zack's hand in farewell, I turned again to the monte layout. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

As in the game of three-card monte, it appears impossible to tell in what order the three will turn up—was, is and will be, lose their special significance. Four-Dimensional Vistas

They was plumb elated at their winnin' up at Fort Lewis, and the gamblin' fever was on 'em strong, so right after supper they invited us to join 'em in a game of Mexican monte. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories

I went out on the guards and called them all into the cabin, and opened up monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

There, sitting inside on a dry cow-skin which was spread on the clay floor, was the object of her visit, surrounded by a group of Mexican companions, playing a game called monte. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories

Before leaving the hotel, Forrest effected the loan of ten from Roundtree, and the two returned to the Long Branch, while the others as eagerly sought out a monte game. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

They could keep house, cook some dainty dishes, wash clothes, sew, dance, and sing,—moreover, they were expert at cards, and divested many a miner of his week's wages over a game of monte. Building a State in Apache Land

I used to watch them at monte, Down in the cabin at night, and learned to know all of the gamblers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860

He accepted the invitation; and while the barkeeper was mixing the drinks, I slipped out some monte cards, and began playing them on the counter. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

I don't know whether he'd really won the coat at monte or not. Arizona Nights

The yap who purchases checks of strangers and bets on monte is no more gullible than the average victim of the advertising grafter. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10

However, after exorbitant compensation had been made, and Molly had given in return "a bit of her mind," she left for the Irish colony of San Patricio, and Manuel immediately sought his favorite monte table. Remember the Alamo

After breakfast, there being a monte table in the house, at which some of his acquaintances were playing, he put down two ounces, and lost. Life in Mexico

I got in among them, and, just for fun, I opened up monte, and I caught five out of the fifteen for every cent they had. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Three card monte and justifiable homicide go hand in hand. Remarks

It is, said he, a beau con le vit monte, or to a fair c. . .the pr. . .mounts. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

It was even seen that they enjoyed the fandango and the monte tables, and that a proposition for a bullfight at Christmas was not opposed by them. Remember the Alamo

Disappointed in her hopes, she seized a boat, and with another girl of her own age, crossed the Great Cataract, and fled al monte. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2

We went to my room, and I showed him the old three-card monte racket. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

If you contemplate a career as a monte man, you should wear a pair of low, loose shoes that you can kick off easily, unless you want to die with your boots on. Remarks

So is bridge, and stud poker, and three-card monte, and flim-flam generally. A Gentleman from Mississippi

His disguise had enabled him to linger about the Plaza and monte table, and to hear and observe all that was going on. Remember the Alamo

But if you want to tear yourself away from the house and go somewhere with friends to play three-card monte, or have a game of handball—don't think of such a thing! Plays

There were five tables of poker going at one time, so I opened up the good old game of monte for the benefit of a lot of Texas boys that didn't play poker. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

I’m not going to play monte with you any more, and we’ll not set up a bank together. The Reign of Greed

Then there was a Methodist church, and hard by a monte bank, and a little beyond, on the mountain side, a graveyard; and then a little schoolhouse. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

I says: 'See here, pardner, don't you go givin' no money to no Mexican, because he'll only gamble it away on three-card monte.' The Long Chance

Public monte and faro leave them a few "doubloons" yet. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance

On this trip I met a man by the name of Rollins, who was the first man I ever saw playing three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

He sat down at our fire, and producing a greasy deck of Spanish playing cards, he challenged Don Juan to a game of monte. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales

Graven upon them were the Latin words, Sic juvat transcendere montes which mean, "Thus it is a pleasure to cross the mountains." This Country of Ours

But my name's Spanish Bill, an' I'm turnin' monte in the Bank Exchange. Wolfville

He must visit women, the fandango, and the attractions of monte. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance

I was then king of the monte men, and did all of the playing myself. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

The gambling began, and my Mexican companions became so engrossed in the enjoyment of their alluring national game of monte that they forgot everything else. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales

The old lady sloshes water on you while you're playing monte here, so you yell Carramba or something, and kick at her. Merton of the Movies

Spanish Bill goes on layin' out his monte same as usual. Wolfville

The word "Joaquin," scrawled on a monte card, and pinned to the dead man's breast, often tells the tale. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance

I opened a few bottles of wine, and finally I called them all in off the guards and opened up monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

This Saturday night there had been no dance, and the men at Gentleman Jack's table at Stinson's had played "three-card monte" on through the dawn and the sunrise, and into broad daylight. Down the Mother Lode

The monte has many houses, dairies, and cowhouses,—being almost the paese, or village, in miniature. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

We packs him back into the Red Light an' lays him onto a monte- table. Wolfville

"Il monte; il monte toujours," - there was not much said but that. A Little Tour in France

We were coming out of New Orleans a short time after the Chambers trick, and had a good monte business, which we closed up as soon as we had caught all the suckers. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

He's known for his liberality and his bad luck at the game of monte, which keeps him as poor as when he first came here. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard

The monte is the pasture land immediately above the highest enclosed meadows and below the alpe. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

Leaving the greater part of the boys holding the horses, some half-dozen of us entered the nearest gambling-house, and Runt bet nineteen dollars "Alce" on the first card which fell in a monte lay-out. The Outlet

Me and Caligula Polk, of Muskogee in the Creek Nation, was down in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas running a peripatetic lottery and monte game. The Gentle Grafter

When Tom Brown and Holly Chappell traveled with me, the four of us made a quartette that could give most any crowd any sort of monte they wanted. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Their occupants joined the tense group about the monte game. The Riverman

By the time it was dark the big room was full of outlaws and Mexicans, most of whom were engaged at monte. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border

The highest tribunal of justice in Ogalalla was the county court, the judge of which also ran the stock-yards during the shipping season, and was banker for two monte games at the Lone Star saloon. The Outlet

We won a pile of money at monte, but Bill and I lost heavily at the races and faro banks. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Canada was, under all his hypocritical appearance, a regular card shark, and could turn monte with the best of them. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

He lost here, and so found himself at the table presided over by the three-card monte men. The Riverman

The noise ceased upon his entrance, and the silence ensuing presently broke to the clink of Mexican silver dollars at a monte table. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border

Couple of nice monte games running there; hundred-dollar limit, and if you feel lucky, there's a nice bank roll behind them. The Outlet

The boat was crowded with passengers, and we were having a very lively game of monte, when a fellow from the Red River country, named Picket, came up to the table and began pulling coat-tails. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Ten Owen County yahoos had been beaten at three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

He knew me and my business, for he had seen me play monte several times. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

During the summer of the Centennial year I followed the races; gambling on horses, running faro bank, red and black, old monte, and anything else that came up. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

I was playing a game of euchre in the hall after closing up monte, when this fellow slipped up and hit me a lick on the side of the neck that came near flooring me. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

They, of course, would not bit at the monte bait, for it was too stale for them; so I would study sometimes for hours how to take the conceit out of them. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

I had old monte running in full blast, but the chicken men could not bet, as they were going to market instead of coming away. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

We had been playing monte at one time in the bar-room of the old Prentis House at Vicksburg, Miss., and had just closed up, when in came four fellows that lived back in the country. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

We were then ready to light out, as we had won $2,000 from the old faro dealer, and about $1,200, besides the watches and pistols, at monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

单词	monte
例句	monte He’d learned sleight of hand from the cardsharps and monte runners on East Stave, and spent hours practicing it in front of a muddy mirror he’d bought with his first week’s pay. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z On any given late afternoon or evening, up to a dozen serious men might be seated around this table intently playing cards—poker, blackjack, monte, hearts, even bridge occasionally, you name it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Yakov won the first two games, but when it came time to find the Lady at three-card monte, he uncovered a worthless heart. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Class now is really like three-card monte,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Video images and simulcasts, as deft as the hands of a three-card monte artist, keep your eyes moving so you often know where sounds and images originate. Review: Who Am I? ‘Panorama’ Says There Is No Easy Answer 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Booth wants Lincoln to team up with him for a three-card monte scam. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The book’s nurses have none of the clinical insight or skill of actual nurses, but they’re eager to reveal their montes pubis for the interns. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The exhibition’s only allusion to performance art, they show her in front of a grated storefront conducting a three-card monte game. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z Images of a floral arrangement, in color and black and white, alternate with exposed brick in a kind of three-card monte. Art in Review: ADAM MARNIE: ?Locus Rubric? 2011-09-29T21:52:31Z Here was the smartest rocker, the LSE student, being taken in a game of three-card monte. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Not all of them are cheap hustlers sitting at tables at subway stops or in parks, offering you a shot a being the first person ever to win at three-card monte or the shell game. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.” Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z He was not popular with the three-card monte guys. Penn and Teller, Reconjured on Broadway 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Yet despite being in the anonymous, cathedral-size Marquis, “Penn & Teller on Broadway” feels almost as intimate as a sidewalk game of three-card monte. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Booth’s career goal is to go into three-card monte, too, but he does not have his big brother’s gift. \| New Jersey: A Review of ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ at the Two River Theater Company 2012-09-22T05:19:06Z Lincoln was once a whiz at three-card monte, but he now has a steady job playing his namesake, the 16th president, in an arcade where customers pay to mock-assassinate him. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z If anti-environmentalist politics resemble a game of three-card monte, it’s one in which all the cards are face up and the marks place their bets on a nonexistent ace. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z And then they’re surprised or caught off guard at the end, which is what Corey refers to as the “three-card monte” trick within the play. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In depicting three-card monte Parks is also depicting capitalism, the über-hustle. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a three-card monte as to who winds up where with what and whom. At 82, ‘NCIS’ actor David McCallum has written a delicious crime caper 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Feeling that the game was rigged, young Bernie Sanders tried to get each of the three-card monte players in Brooklyn broken up into three one-card monte players. Style Invitational: B all you can B — a neologism contest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The only surprise is that Roberts shuns cheap jump scare surprises in favor of well-crafted suspense scenes that play out like a game of three card monte. ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’ Review: They Go Way Back 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The price — barely $100 per night — inspired suspicion, and I approached the lobby as I would approach a game of three-card monte. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The two-character comedy “Topdog/Underdog,” developed at the Public Theater, caught his fancy in part because the plot involved three-card monte. Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Like three-card monte, or jazz, the play — and, at its best, Kenny Leon’s direction of it — moves too fast for analysis. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Lincoln supports them with a gig as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and Booth spends his days shoplifting, aggressively trying to woo an ex and planning his debut as a master of three-card monte. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z At one point, when Lincoln practices his three-card monte skills, the red light that floods around him is as hypnotic as his con-man patter. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Corey Hawkins plays Lincoln, a three-card monte hustler turned Abraham Lincoln impersonator in an arcade shooting game, opposite Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the boastful, envious Booth, for whom inheritance is everything. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z I collaborated with the people at Peculiar on the concept of three-card monte. Behind the Poster: '3 Christs' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z If you see anyone playing three-card monte or a shell game, just keep walking. Traveling soon? Look out for these new tourism scams 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z "The old three card monte guys had to wait for people to walk around. Now you can reach out and find the three card monte enthusiast, and get them to come to you." Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Another Pulitzer winner now in a blistering Broadway revival, Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog,” features as its dramatic linchpin the art of the street hustle, in three-card monte. Perspective \| A casino in hectic Times Square? This theater critic says heck no. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Hawkins invests Lincoln with a scathingly funny pride of slickness, in his virtuosic manner of moving the three monte cards around a piece of cardboard mounted on milk crates. Review \| Broadway’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ pits two fine actors in blistering battle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Crime plummeted, corporate profits soared, and three-card monte dealers in Times Square gave way to Disney characters. Review \| How Rudy Giuliani, once a national hero, ruined his own reputation 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z And if he keeps playing three-egg monte with you, then maybe he'll turn out to have been right about your splitting up to trade up, only in a self-fulfilling-prophetic kind of way. Perspective \| Carolyn Hax: Husband is stalling on kids but upset that wife might freeze eggs 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The old three card monte guys in New York had to wait for people to walk around. Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z “In the name of democratizing finance, what I am seeing is a game of three-card monte where they are moving balls around hoping people don’t understand the game is rigged,” Mr. Awrey said. Big Hires, Big Money and a D.C. Blitz: A Bold Plan to Dominate Crypto 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z When it comes to pitching strategy, the Dodgers are the slick street hustler and the opponent is the mark, certain to fall for their three-card monte act. Atlanta Bought in Bulk to Replace the Irreplaceable 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z This preacher with the gray, combed-back hair speaks of the con man’s game of three-card monte, as well as the Bible’s blind beggar, Bartimaeus. Perspective \| The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Perversely, a monte cristo is also sometimes dusted with icing sugar. One box of eggs – 17 delicious ways to use them, from french toast to huevos rancheros 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Now you can reach out and find the three card monte enthusiast and get them to come to you, instead of the other way around. Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Nunes compared the proceedings against President Trump to "three-card monte" and the medieval Inquisition. Nunes slams impeachment 'three-card monte,' then yields to Schiff for 'storytime hour' 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Decades back, my wife and I were newly married, and we wandered in a fine mood through Manhattan and came upon a game of three-card monte. Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Donald Trump, a lifelong resident of New York, most certainly watched street hustlers run their con with games such as three-card monte on unsuspecting tourists and other marks. Trump’s USA Today op-ed: The real point was to threaten his enemies with violence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The San Francisco Bulletin cheered the exit of the notorious figure it dubbed the “Mariposa monte dealer.” A hungry congressman didn’t get the breakfast he ordered. So he shot the waiter. 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z “It really amounts to a game of three-card monte,” he added. 4 Years After Eric Garner’s Death, Secrecy Law on Police Discipline Remains Unchanged 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z This man would be right at home playing 3 card monte in front of Trump Tower. Trump Says He Is Willing to Speak Under Oath to Mueller 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z He won with the tools that have cast spells on Alabama voters for two centuries: race, religion, hysterical oratory, intimidation of critics and economic three-card monte dealt by big-business hand jivers. Opinion \| Roy Moore’s Alabama 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Let them treat truth like the money card in a game of three-card monte. ‘Compromise’ means America always finds a way to sell black people out 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z They’ll keep playing three-card monte with you while you keep thinking you know which cup has the penny in it. Greg Palast: Trump’s tax cuts are more evidence America’s greedy billionaires have staged a political coup 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z When Albamonte sensed the judge leaning toward the former, she seized his offer to delay the hearing for a month. She helped deport hundreds of undocumented immigrants. Now she’s fighting for them. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Business will not fall for Mr Trumps three card monte tricks to bring back manufacturing to US soil. What Trump Gets Right on Trade 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z But upending trade agreements, creating jobs that manufacture goods people cannot pay for, or that will be heavily tarrifed by other countries, is really just a game of three-card monte. 2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?) 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Of course, it s almost impossible to win a game of three-card monte against a dealer as skilled as Andrew Jones. Donald Trump’s diversity hustle: His “best black friend” and a few women can’t conceal his true agenda 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z He said he realized he was among the last of the monte dealers, and the youth of today “don’t, for some reason, have the same interests.” One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Getting swindled by playing three-card monte was once a common occurrence for tourists in New York City. Mosul, Republican Party, Los Angeles Dodgers: Your Monday Briefing 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The earliest mentions of three-card monte in The New York Times date to the 1850s in articles about farmers losing fortunes to “an unfair game.” A Veteran Con Man Works a New Crowd With an Old Trick 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Patton, the public defender in Manhattan, said the questions surrounding Mr. Rahami’s representation were “starting to look like a game of three-card monte.” Public Defender Says Prosecutor Denied Him Access to Ahmad Rahami 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Defense attorneys likened the state’s case to a game of three-card monte, with prosecutors constantly shifting their theory as to how Gray was injured. Verdict scheduled for Thursday for officer charged in Freddie Gray’s death 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “Three-card monte is the name! Played in New York, but originated in Spain!” One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z He also compared prosecutors' case to three-card monte, a con game in which a card is hidden from a bettor. Closing arguments wrap up in Baltimore cop's trial over Freddie Gray death 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Think of it as the Department of Defense’s version of the street con game, three-card monte, or maybe simply as the Pentagon shuffle. The Pentagon’s dark money: Billions of federal dollars are vanishing into thin air 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Having sewn up the nomination, Trump has entered the three-card monte phase of his campaign, in which he shuffles his positions so quickly that the gullible patsy loses track. Ryan and Trump’s painful sham 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The customer essentially is faced with trying to find the queen of hearts in a game of three-card monte. News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “I practiced everywhere I could,” he said of three-card monte. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, here in Washington, Lafayette Square was overrun by Sciurus carolinensis, the Eastern gray squirrel, a shakedown artist as aggressive as any three-card monte hustler. Remembering the Great Squirrel Purge of Lafayette Square 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z She also looks at small-time street hustlers who entice people with the prospect of riches from three-card monte. The Art of the Con: Maria Konnikova on scams, grifters and being easily duped 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z So is this just another game of economic three card monte – sliding around the dollars but with consumers left with essential the same monthly charge? Verizon Breaks The TV Bundle 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z His academic research, which combines ideas such as monte carlo simulations, genetic algorithms, and machine learning, focuses on how to generation predictive models to explain the relationships between data. Find The Rules Of Your Business With Automated Data Science 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The police said he was first charged with running a monte game, which is a violation of the city’s administrative code, in 1981. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z “I grew up in New York City, and I saw people doing three-card monte,” said Haskel Straus, 64, who is retired from teaching business people a communication technique known as neurolinguistic programming. Where the Father of the Ponzi Scheme Once Slept 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z There is a flash of three-card monte below the surface, as these men sell you on meatballs with your pasta or promise that the lemon cheesecake is “the best you’ll ever have in your life.” Restaurant Review: Carbone in Manhattan 2013-06-04T20:23:13Z In the monte hustle, a dealer places three slightly curved cards face down on, say, a cardboard box. \| Ricky Jay: Straight Talk From a Professor of Flimflam (but Don’t Ask His Age) 2013-04-22T00:47:12Z Shanahan’s offense relies on a group of players flawlessly executing a combination of roles, but its heartbeat is misdirection and deception — eyes here and the action over there — in football’s version of three-card monte. Washington Redskins’ offense is the three-card monte of the NFL 2013-01-05T23:26:54Z The police said his record showed 17 arrests involving three-card monte. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Instead, it creates a kind of international trade three-card monte game. Argentina's International Trade Disaster 2012-11-08T20:00:53Z In the same forests in which one of the two ancestors of lager yeast lives, also lives the monito del monte. Occam s Razor, Flying Monkeys and Musings on Lager Beer 2012-04-26T17:15:00.443Z The specimen examined was shot at night at about 3:00 a. m. in the beam of a headlight in typical scrub "monte." The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico 2012-04-06T02:00:23.953Z The tide here ceases; up to this spot "la mar�e monte." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-11T03:00:15.507Z In the bows, under an awning extemporised out of an old sail, were squatting the two Spaniards, playing at monte with a very dirty pack of cards. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z It’s ‘slick,’ all right, but it is the slickness of the crooked gambler and the three-card monte man. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z Judges here show waning patience for the three-card monte act of some banks. Gotham: In a Queens Neighborhood, Signs of Uneven Burdens From a Housing Crisis 2012-02-07T04:00:57Z Another 60 or 80 horses escaped "en el monte." The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California 2012-02-06T03:00:12.387Z The first montes pictatis were expressly intended to check the usury of the Jews. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z The men obeyed, grumbling at their ill-luck, and then resumed their game of monte. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The batteries rested, and the commander-in-chief of the beaten army had not even the heart for his evening game of monte. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z Monte, mon′te, n. a shrubby tract, a forest: a Spanish-American gambling game, played with a pack of forty cards.—Three-card monte, a Mexican gambling game, played with three cards, one usually a court-card. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z After quitting the monte game I struck out to hunt aunt "Mary" whom I heard had moved to Houston from Galveston. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z As they drew their pay, the “Kid” and gang were on hand to deal monte and win their money. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z The first time they played at monte they would be scattering each other's brains over the cards. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z There was a "three card monte" gang working on the train. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z It described what is essentially a nuclear version of three-card monte, in which scientists are hidden in organizations with names like “Section for Advanced Development Applications and Technologies” and at universities around Tehran. U.N. Finds Signs of Work by Iran Toward Nuclear Device 2011-11-08T20:28:23Z There were lots of mexicans working there and after working hours some of them would "deal" monte while the rest of us "bucked." A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z Finally the two young brigands settled down in Tucson, where Billy’s skill as a monte dealer, and card player kept them in luxuriant style, and gave them prestige among the sporting fraternity. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z In order to get the money the people have recourse to the monte di piet�—the pawnshop—and the women will pawn the mattress off the bed. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z There was a little "monte," or wood of "eucalypti," and some were also planted on either side of the drive leading up to the house, forming quite a respectable avenue. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z At the farther extremity of the low room a dozen players sat at a green-baize table absorbed in monte. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z The first month's wages went for a fancy pistol, the next, or at least part of it, for a pair of star topped boots and all the balance on "monte," a mexican game. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z One of these monte dealers had offended Billy, which caused his death. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z The most popular games were monte, usually conducted by Mexicans, and faro, an American game. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z October features three-planet monte, Jupiter's reign over the evening sky and the Mall gaining a public observatory. 3-Planet Monte, Meteors and the Mall 2009-10-04T04:00:00Z There was only a single monte bank "open," and to this Ramirez bent his steps with the peculiar predilections of his race. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Not being acquainted in town, time passed off very slowly, so I finally got to "bucking" at my old favorite game—monte. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z One morning before the break of day, this monte dealer was on his way home; a peon was carrying his fat “bank roll” in a buckskin bag, finely decorated with gold and silver threads. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z “We’ve been playing three-card monte with these kids, shuffling them from school to school,” he said, “and we forgot about quality education.” District May End Economic Diversity Program 2010-02-27T18:11:00Z Their movements over the next few weeks resemble the game three-card monte. 3-Planet Monte, Meteors and the Mall 2009-10-04T04:00:00Z The first syllable of this name appears to be the same as of Cambunii montes, in which the second part is probably the word βοῦνος, which in modern Greek still means “a hill.” The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 It was again struck with wonder, however; and, for want of a better expression, took a drink and settled down to a game of monte. First Fam'lies of the Sierras Then Billy and Segura held up and robbed several monte dealers, when on the way home after their games had closed for the night. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z After our lunch a smoke, and while we smoked a few deals of Spanish monte and a story or two, then back to bunks. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Down one side were ranged tables for monte, faro, senate and stud. Stepsons of Light Two of the well-known sharpers who hung around the camps had enticed little Pete in there, and to a game of three-card monte. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign That brought up tales of the old games, poker, faro, three card monte, blackjack, roulette—and crapshooting. Noble Redman When pay day came around the “Kid’s” monte game was raking in money again. History of 'Billy the Kid' 2011-11-19T03:00:22.640Z Off at the side with bridle reins dragging, four ponies fed on the stubby grass as their owners, two Indians and two cowmen, played Spanish monte. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter There even was a public gaming house, where civil officers, traders, merchants, travelers, and the clergy grouped avidly around the monte tables and played at fever heat, momentarily beyond the reach of any other obsession. Bring Me His Ears Johnny, who could never resist the tables, was soon laying very small stakes on monte. Gold “Well, there isn’t even a moon and we can’t deal monte, 168as if that weren’t the same as giving you what you want, anyway.” The Missourian Thither Don Luis directed his steps, and, on reaching it, he saw through the open door the Count of Genazahar engaged in playing monte, in which he acted as banker. Pepita Ximenez "Parturiunt montes" is an easy verdict to pronounce; it remains to be proved whether in this case it is a just one to render. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer Then he dealt monte and made a pile. Bring Me His Ears Quick as we were, we found both the padrone and his man, together with a dozen others, already seated at a monte table. Gold I used to watch them at monte, 6 Down in the cabin at night, and learned to know all of the gamblers. Poems He'll try anything once, and it don't make no difference to him whether it's three-card monte or a new kind of submarine. Kid Scanlan Their next move took them to Murphy’s Diggings, where the boy got his job at dealing monte and was doing very well––until this evening came, and with it, tragedy. When the West Was Young This attack on Charleston to some extent justifies: parturiunt montes, etc. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Did you come out ahead on those monte games?” 99Johnny blushed, and laughed a little. Gold Pan was the only one of Juan's listeners who had power of speech left, and he asked: "Juan, did you play any monte or poker with the queen?" Valley of Wild Horses Caesar. ad montes, i.e. the rocky hills through which the retreating Pompeians had to pass before they could reach the Ebro valley. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight For the water-carrier was James Boyce, who had played monte over the table of the good-looking young dealer many a night in Murphy’s Diggings. When the West Was Young Although I employed men to do the work, often players would insist on my dealing the monte deck or laying down the faro lay-out for them. Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer We never attempted it except in company; and as Johnny seemed fascinated with a certain game called Mexican monte, we often had to endure long waits before all our party was assembled. Gold During the great week of the Fiesta he had tried everything from roulette to monte, but fortune's wheel had turned steadily against him. When Dreams Come True "Il monte; il monte toujours"—there was not much said but that. A Little Tour of France They gambled at monte, quien con, and other games of chance. When the West Was Young The principal gambling game in those days was Mexican monte, played with forty cards. Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer Farther to the South, among the Spano-Mexicans, you meet the game of “monte,”—a card game, distinct from all the others. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The lieutenant, Don Filipo, was in charge of the spectacle, for the gobernadorcillo was playing monte, of which he was a passionate devotee. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Nobody but a blind man can lose at monte, by George!” Desert Dust Here we must read “in monte Gargano” instead of “in monte Gorgon.” Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Above the western monte a lordly eagle with hushed wings rose majestically overhead, and some viscashos popped in a noiseless way in and out of their holes. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir It is a game of Spanish origin, as its name imports; indeed, it differs but little from monte, and was no doubt obtained from the Spaniards of New Orleans. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Such a vaunt may be considered to savour of the parturiunt montes apothegm, but the reader may confidently rest assured that whatever shortcomings he may detect they are not the result of negligence. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Yes, suh, there’s nothing like monte, where any man is privileged to match his eyes against fingers. Desert Dust Good old tunes are sung previous to calling witnesses to testify to alleged three carde monte acts of a disciple of Christ. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 He chatted with the peons, hunted wild mares in the monte, and drank cocktails as to the manner born. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir The pork-merchant I met many years afterward, as a successful monte dealer in the “Halls of the Montezumas.” The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West How much more of a sin is it for the Cuban woman to win five dollars at monte, and buy a goblet? Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 Jim had disappeared; until when we had made way to another monte table there he was, his hands in his pockets, his cigar half smoked. Desert Dust It was all a put up job on me, just like they play three card monte on a fresh stranger. The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 “The trick of cards by which one may always win an albur at monte.” The Tiger Hunter Those who were asleep awoke only in time to flee; those who were cooking their dinner left it uneaten; those who were playing their favorite game of monte left it unfinished. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality There is more money lost and won on draw poker in one day in New York than is lost and won in Havana on monte and roulette. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 They were all mangled and crushed in a moment, in the midst of their game of monte, as they were fighting and quarrelling over the stakes. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant With the money he had won at monte games and chicken-fights, he intended to set up a drugstore in America. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Passengers will beware of playing three-card monte, strap, or any other game of chance, with strangers. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Here he killed a gambler, José Martinez, over a monte game, on an "even break," being the fraction of a second the quicker on the draw. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Let the army general that never sat up all night at a faro bank issue the first order against monte and roulette in Havana. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 We kindled fires, and, having cooked our supper and eaten it, were sitting around the logs chatting, smoking, and some of the Mexicans, as is their custom, playing at monte. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Drawing near, I found the colonel seated in the center, with a blanket spread before him, on which he was dealing the fascinating game of monte. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War After supper I opened up monte, and caught a good many suckers. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi He kept up his record by appearing next at Chihuahua and robbing a few monte dealers there, killing one whom he waylaid with a new companion by the name of Segura. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Sanchez had Case deep in his debt, for monte had fascinated him when in liquor. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Elated with their good fortune, seized with a mania for monte, in less than a year these unfortunates, so lately respectable and intelligent, became a pair of drunken gamblers. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 They played monte on their spread blankets, staking their tobacco. The Scalp Hunters While he was a great man at monte, he was a fool at short cards. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi An adroit monte player he was—ready to do a little cheating upon occasions—a capital judge of game “gallos,” ever ready to stake his onzas upon a “main.” The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico If rouge et noir, or monte, won their doubloons and freight at his saloon, he regretted, but dared not interfere with the amusements of his guests. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Those who worked in these mines during the fall of 1850 were extremely fortunate, but, alas! the monte fiend ruined hundreds. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 But I got some idea of its fruits from the cases brought to me for surgical treatment from the faro and monte tables. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands The confidence men and monte players were in clover. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi There were numerous tables, spread with games,—faro, monte, and roulette,—each surrounded by an absorbed and interested group. The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California It is by no means improbable that the gambler is now playing monte on some plantation in Cuba. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Of course, poker and euchre, whist and ninepins, to say nothing of monte and faro, are now in constant requisition. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 So some lounged away to the faro and monte tables, which were doing a busy trade; others loitered in the verandah, smoking, and looking at the native women, who sang and danced fandangos before them. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands I was playing monte one night on the Robert E. Lee, when a fellow stepped up to the table and bet me $800. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi What money the saloons failed to get was generally gambled off against brace games of faro or monte. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Up stairs were private rooms, in which gentlemen met to have a quiet game of poker; while down stairs could be found the greenhorn, just "roped in," and being swindled, at three card monte. The Expressman and the Detective There was faro and poker for the Americans, monte for the Spaniards, lansquenet for the Frenchmen, and smaller games for the outsiders. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 The chief games played were monte and faro, but no interest attached to the games as such, the winning or losing of money was that which lent fascination to the play. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West We opened monte, and caught the wheel man for his entire stock, and we had more Christmas presents than anybody in the State. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi However, a slight narrowing of the cold black eyes and a significant sweep of the six-shooter brought every man of them to his knees, with heads bowed over faro lay-outs and on monte tables. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier There was roulette, faro, and monte, all at different points. Wild Bill's Last Trail Not content with Las Vegas, I followed the road to Albuquerque and Socorro, had some deals there and spent my evenings playing poker, faro and monte with the best and "toughest" of them. Ranching, Sport and Travel Crowds surrounded the monte tables, on which glittering piles of gold and silver coin were passing from hand to hand according to varying fortune. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West High Miller and I were playing monte one night on the first J. M. White, and had a good game, and made some money. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Three card monte under the walls of Charlemagne's church! Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Faro, roulette, hazard, monte, and the great national game, poker, held high carnival there81 nightly. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers "Shall we leave our monte and other stuff in town?" asked Juan. Captured by the Navajos He came so hurriedly that his wardrobe consisted of two 6-shooters and a monte deck of cards, on account of which he was dubbed "Monte" Cash. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball He is now living in West Virginia with his family, and no one would think, to see him, that he used to catch rattlesnakes for a living, or played three-card monte with old Devol. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi As they rode on they found the country dotted over with quintas and country-houses, here called montes, from being generally seated on hills. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters In olden times, the Mexicans used to travel hundreds of miles, and bring their money with them in order to squander it at their favorite game of monte. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself He speaks of four montes, which had castles. Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 One or two lucky hits at monte, and in a few, short hours, lo! the metamorphosis is complete.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Then I thought I would interest them in old monte until the train arrived; so I opened up on an old fish box and soon had them guessing for the baby ticket. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Games of monte and chuckaluck had their devotees, as had also roulette and poker. Mavericks When his heart is warmest he is tossing a silver dollar in the air and thinking; of monte. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 First we went to inspect the site where the new house is to be built, then on to the pretty little monte near by, where some picturesque photographs were taken of the cavalcade of riders. Argentina from a British Point of View The voice of the croupier was soon heard announcing that the monte would recommence, and yielding to the pressing invitation of those around me, I resumed my position at the table. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy "Rattlesnake Jack" was about the last man I worked with as a partner playing three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Hungering for the excitement of play he collides amiably with faro and monte and what other deadfalls are rife of the place. Wolfville Nights Oh, he had had a little monte over-night, and horse, saddle, rifle, revolver, all were gone. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 We paused in this tiny monte, for it is an intensely interesting spot from a botanical point of view, and with care and attention should be so for some years to come. Argentina from a British Point of View The general feeling of the Church, however, was in favour of the montes. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching My friend said, "Why, Devol, he has been playing three-card monte." Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Which the day is set an' the Lance shows in the door, as monte sharps would say. Wolfville Nights By midnight the music dies away and the dancing ceases, but the sombreros bend over the monte blanket and the silver clinks on it till morning. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 The man had suddenly come across it while on foot in the monte, and after wounding it with his Winchester had run it down with his dogs and killed it. Argentina from a British Point of View These institutions were formed on the model of the montes profani, the system of public debt resorted to by many Italian States. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching We were playing monte on board the steamer Magnolia, out of New Orleans, one night, and had a very lively game. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi In a little room adjoining the ball-room, with door invitingly open, is the shrine of monte. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Close to our door was a long table, with a green cloth, where the Jalapenians were constantly playing monte, from nine in the morning till late at night. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Notwithstanding these discomforts, the men are in good spirits, and enjoy themselves in singing, telling stories, and playing monte. What I Saw in California But before the remainder of us proceeded to our destinations two of the boys discovered a splendid opening for a monte game, in which we could easily recoup all our expenses for the trip. Reed Anthony, Cowman We were playing monte, and I had beat a man out of twenty- six twenty-dollar gold pieces. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi There in the evening the miners collected, and by faro, poker, or monte managed to lose all that they had washed out during the day. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake Every gambling house ran from two to three monte layouts, as it was a favorite game of cowmen, especially when they were from the far southern country. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days But he is ardent in his pursuit of amusement and pleasure, and these consist chiefly in the fandango, the game of monte, horse-racing, and bull and bear-baiting. What I Saw in California The second night there was heavy play, and before ten o'clock the monte bank closed for want of funds, it having been tapped for its last dollar. Reed Anthony, Cowman I caught a few suckers, and then closed up monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi On all sides the natives drank, sang, and played monte. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado The Black Elephant was about a block from the livery, and as we entered, a large crowd of bystanders were watching the playing around one of the three monte games which were running. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days She had not appeared at supper, and he had slept little in consequence; in fact, he had spent most of the night playing monte with Joaquin and a dozen other young men in the billiard-room. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California He was an inveterate gambler, his large professional earnings going into the coffers of the faro and monte dealers. California Sketches, Second Series At one time on the Upper Mississippi, while playing monte, I caught a Jew from Quincy, Ill., who had been down to St. Louis buying a stock of jewelry. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi But it was no warning to them, and they continued to play their favorite games, Stubb at poker, while Arab gave his attention to monte. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories The Rebel had given us the slip during the race, though none of us cared, as we knew he was hungering for a monte game. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Better stay at home, and prepare thy soul with three-card monte" "Ay, señorita, but thou art cruel! The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California I was with Ben till daylight, at the monte game; they all tell you. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On We had been playing monte one night on the steamer Southern Belle, out from New Orleans, and had closed up. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi The abandoned ranchita in the monte—the meeting point—had been at one time a stone house of some pretensions, where had formerly lived its builder, a wealthy, eccentric recluse. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories The dealer was waiting for me to cut the cards, and stopping only to wring Zack's hand in farewell, I turned again to the monte layout. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days As in the game of three-card monte, it appears impossible to tell in what order the three will turn up—was, is and will be, lose their special significance. Four-Dimensional Vistas They was plumb elated at their winnin' up at Fort Lewis, and the gamblin' fever was on 'em strong, so right after supper they invited us to join 'em in a game of Mexican monte. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories I went out on the guards and called them all into the cabin, and opened up monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi There, sitting inside on a dry cow-skin which was spread on the clay floor, was the object of her visit, surrounded by a group of Mexican companions, playing a game called monte. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories Before leaving the hotel, Forrest effected the loan of ten from Roundtree, and the two returned to the Long Branch, while the others as eagerly sought out a monte game. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days They could keep house, cook some dainty dishes, wash clothes, sew, dance, and sing,—moreover, they were expert at cards, and divested many a miner of his week's wages over a game of monte. Building a State in Apache Land I used to watch them at monte, Down in the cabin at night, and learned to know all of the gamblers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 He accepted the invitation; and while the barkeeper was mixing the drinks, I slipped out some monte cards, and began playing them on the counter. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi I don't know whether he'd really won the coat at monte or not. Arizona Nights The yap who purchases checks of strangers and bets on monte is no more gullible than the average victim of the advertising grafter. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 However, after exorbitant compensation had been made, and Molly had given in return "a bit of her mind," she left for the Irish colony of San Patricio, and Manuel immediately sought his favorite monte table. Remember the Alamo After breakfast, there being a monte table in the house, at which some of his acquaintances were playing, he put down two ounces, and lost. Life in Mexico I got in among them, and, just for fun, I opened up monte, and I caught five out of the fifteen for every cent they had. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Three card monte and justifiable homicide go hand in hand. Remarks It is, said he, a beau con le vit monte, or to a fair c. . .the pr. . .mounts. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 It was even seen that they enjoyed the fandango and the monte tables, and that a proposition for a bullfight at Christmas was not opposed by them. Remember the Alamo Disappointed in her hopes, she seized a boat, and with another girl of her own age, crossed the Great Cataract, and fled al monte. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 We went to my room, and I showed him the old three-card monte racket. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi If you contemplate a career as a monte man, you should wear a pair of low, loose shoes that you can kick off easily, unless you want to die with your boots on. Remarks So is bridge, and stud poker, and three-card monte, and flim-flam generally. A Gentleman from Mississippi His disguise had enabled him to linger about the Plaza and monte table, and to hear and observe all that was going on. Remember the Alamo But if you want to tear yourself away from the house and go somewhere with friends to play three-card monte, or have a game of handball—don't think of such a thing! Plays There were five tables of poker going at one time, so I opened up the good old game of monte for the benefit of a lot of Texas boys that didn't play poker. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi I’m not going to play monte with you any more, and we’ll not set up a bank together. The Reign of Greed Then there was a Methodist church, and hard by a monte bank, and a little beyond, on the mountain side, a graveyard; and then a little schoolhouse. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers I says: 'See here, pardner, don't you go givin' no money to no Mexican, because he'll only gamble it away on three-card monte.' The Long Chance Public monte and faro leave them a few "doubloons" yet. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance On this trip I met a man by the name of Rollins, who was the first man I ever saw playing three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi He sat down at our fire, and producing a greasy deck of Spanish playing cards, he challenged Don Juan to a game of monte. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales Graven upon them were the Latin words, Sic juvat transcendere montes which mean, "Thus it is a pleasure to cross the mountains." This Country of Ours But my name's Spanish Bill, an' I'm turnin' monte in the Bank Exchange. Wolfville He must visit women, the fandango, and the attractions of monte. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance I was then king of the monte men, and did all of the playing myself. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi The gambling began, and my Mexican companions became so engrossed in the enjoyment of their alluring national game of monte that they forgot everything else. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales The old lady sloshes water on you while you're playing monte here, so you yell Carramba or something, and kick at her. Merton of the Movies Spanish Bill goes on layin' out his monte same as usual. Wolfville The word "Joaquin," scrawled on a monte card, and pinned to the dead man's breast, often tells the tale. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance I opened a few bottles of wine, and finally I called them all in off the guards and opened up monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi This Saturday night there had been no dance, and the men at Gentleman Jack's table at Stinson's had played "three-card monte" on through the dawn and the sunrise, and into broad daylight. Down the Mother Lode The monte has many houses, dairies, and cowhouses,—being almost the paese, or village, in miniature. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino We packs him back into the Red Light an' lays him onto a monte- table. Wolfville "Il monte; il monte toujours," - there was not much said but that. A Little Tour in France We were coming out of New Orleans a short time after the Chambers trick, and had a good monte business, which we closed up as soon as we had caught all the suckers. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi He's known for his liberality and his bad luck at the game of monte, which keeps him as poor as when he first came here. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard The monte is the pasture land immediately above the highest enclosed meadows and below the alpe. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino Leaving the greater part of the boys holding the horses, some half-dozen of us entered the nearest gambling-house, and Runt bet nineteen dollars "Alce" on the first card which fell in a monte lay-out. The Outlet Me and Caligula Polk, of Muskogee in the Creek Nation, was down in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas running a peripatetic lottery and monte game. The Gentle Grafter When Tom Brown and Holly Chappell traveled with me, the four of us made a quartette that could give most any crowd any sort of monte they wanted. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Their occupants joined the tense group about the monte game. The Riverman By the time it was dark the big room was full of outlaws and Mexicans, most of whom were engaged at monte. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border The highest tribunal of justice in Ogalalla was the county court, the judge of which also ran the stock-yards during the shipping season, and was banker for two monte games at the Lone Star saloon. The Outlet We won a pile of money at monte, but Bill and I lost heavily at the races and faro banks. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Canada was, under all his hypocritical appearance, a regular card shark, and could turn monte with the best of them. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi He lost here, and so found himself at the table presided over by the three-card monte men. The Riverman The noise ceased upon his entrance, and the silence ensuing presently broke to the clink of Mexican silver dollars at a monte table. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border Couple of nice monte games running there; hundred-dollar limit, and if you feel lucky, there's a nice bank roll behind them. The Outlet The boat was crowded with passengers, and we were having a very lively game of monte, when a fellow from the Red River country, named Picket, came up to the table and began pulling coat-tails. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Ten Owen County yahoos had been beaten at three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi He knew me and my business, for he had seen me play monte several times. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi During the summer of the Centennial year I followed the races; gambling on horses, running faro bank, red and black, old monte, and anything else that came up. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi I was playing a game of euchre in the hall after closing up monte, when this fellow slipped up and hit me a lick on the side of the neck that came near flooring me. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi They, of course, would not bit at the monte bait, for it was too stale for them; so I would study sometimes for hours how to take the conceit out of them. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi I had old monte running in full blast, but the chicken men could not bet, as they were going to market instead of coming away. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi We had been playing monte at one time in the bar-room of the old Prentis House at Vicksburg, Miss., and had just closed up, when in came four fellows that lived back in the country. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi We were then ready to light out, as we had won $2,000 from the old faro dealer, and about $1,200, besides the watches and pistols, at monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
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