Will you say, reply, what I hold?--A cigar. Will you say, name what I hold?--A cane. Will you say,...
2011-10-24
beginning with the card touched, and giving to that card the number of the one thought of. By count...
call, as the case may be, from the four cards in your hand:--the six of clubs, two of hearts, ten o...
of the pack, which you hold in your left, and then, with your right thumb and middle finger, raise ...
means of vaticination or prediction--whether cards, the tea- grounds in the cup, &c.,--all POSS...
himself in a terrible 'fix;' seven of diamonds is worse still, portending all the horrors of the di...
there is one spot more eminently distinguished for a general rendezvous of fraud and gambling, that...
after this give him a roll of your best SCOURING, and so stove him up as hot as you can for that ni...
saying he led him off in a direction thus described in court by the fleeced Frenchman.--'You tooke ...
which secured the door. The professional gambler trying to live by his winnings, the fashionable sw...
fair, and, lastly, that it was a very quiet game. It was, however, the most dangerous game for the ...
Piquet is said to have derived its name from that of its inventor, who contrived it to amuse Charl...
the commission, and put a pack of cards in its place. When the doctor returned to his apartment, he...
I am contente, for surelye I would Winne no manne's moneye here, but even as much as woulde pay for...
estates of a kingdom:--1. The nobility and gentry; 2. The ecclesiastics or priesthood; 3. The citiz...