The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in All Times and Countries, Especially in England and in France, Tập 2Tinsley brothers, 1870 |
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Trang 167 - ... ruffles; and to guard their eyes from the light, and to prevent tumbling their hair, wore high-crowned straw hats with broad brims, and adorned with flowers and ribbons ; masks to conceal their emotions when they played at Quinze. Each gamester had a small neat stand by him with a large rim, to hold their tea, or a wooden bowl with an edge of ormolu, to hold their rouleaus.
Trang 99 - The magistrates expressed their horror and disgust ; and ordered the man who had been hanged to find bail for the violent and unjustifiable assault upon the officer, and the short one for hanging the other. Not having bail, they were committed to Bridewell for trial.
Trang 168 - ... O'Birne, an Irish gamester, had won one hundred thousand pounds of a young Mr. Harvey ' of Chigwell, just started from a midshipman into an estate by his elder brother's death. O'Birne said, 'You can never pay me.' ' I can,' said the youth ; ' my estate will sell for the debt.' 'No,' said O. ; ' I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety.
Trang 347 - Tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, Executors I will have none But he that on my side laid Seven to One, And like a Gentleman that he may live, To him and to his heirs my Comb I give.
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