Whist Scores and Card-table Talk: With a Bibliography of WhistA. C. McClurg, 1886 - 310 pages |
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Whist Scores and Card-Table Talk: With a Bibliography of Whist George Hempl No preview available - 2016 |
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APACHES OF ARIZONA auld British Museum BUCKSKIN PACK cairds called Card Essays card of caution card-playing card-table Catl Cavendish cents per pack century Charles Chatto Count court-cards Deschapelles DEUCE dice Dick & Fitzgerald early Edmond Hoyle England English euchre FIVE OF CUPS four cards France FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN French friends gambling Game of Whist GAMES POINTS Keeper Gamester gaming-tables German hand Hayward Hazlitt hearts heathen Chinee Henry Hoffmann hold honor Hoyle's Games Keeper of Score lady Lamb Laws lead London Lord mind National Museum origin pack of cards partner person play whist players playing at cards playing-cards pseud queen RUBBERS GAMES POINTS Ruff and Honours rules sermon SEVEN OF SWORDS ſhall short whist shuffling soldier spades Spanish cards suit tarots thing trick trumps twenty-five cents whist whist-player Willshire York
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Page 109 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Page 221 - It was August the third, And quite soft was the skies ; Which it might be inferred That Ah Sin was likewise : Yet he played it that day upon William And me in a way I despise. Which we had a small game, And Ah Sin took a hand : It was euchre. The same He did not understand ; But he smiled as he sat by the table, With the smile that was childlike and bland.
Page 203 - I never in my life — and I knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it — saw her take out her snuff-box when it was her turn to play; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game; or ring for a servant, till it was fairly over. She never introduced, or connived at, miscellaneous conversation during its process.
Page 223 - Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.
Page 223 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see ; Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me ; And he rose with a sigh, And said, " Can this be ? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour ; " And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Page 163 - That, which is now a horse , even with a thought, The rack dislimns , and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Eros. It does , my lord. Ant. My good knave , Eros , now thy captain is Even such a body : here I am Antony , Yet cannot hold this visible shape , my knave.
Page 201 - She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection to take a hand, if you want one to make up a rubber ; who affirm that they have no pleasure in winning ; that they like to win one game, and lose another ; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a...
Page 18 - English Eccentrics and Eccentricities: Stories of Wealth and Fashion, Delusions, Impostures and Fanatic Missions, Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes, Eccentric Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men...
Page 109 - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Page 201 - ... a wrong card, to take it up and play another. These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table. One of these flies will spoil a whole pot. Of such it may be said that they do not play at cards, but only play at playing at them. Sarah Battle was none of that breed. She detested them, as I do, from her heart and soul, and would not, save upon a striking emergency, willingly seat herself at the same table with them. She loved a thorough-paced partner, a determined enemy. She took, and gave,...