Make Your Game, Or, The Adventures of the Stout Gentleman, the Slim Gentleman, and the Man with the Iron Chest: A Narrative of the Rhine and ThereaboutsWard and Lock, 1860 - 266 Seiten |
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... English visitors to the Kursaal do so play . And , while repudiating any graver general “ purpose " than that of amusing , he has endeavoured to deduce from the adventures of his shadowy tourists a tiny scrap of morality , to the effect ...
... English visitors to the Kursaal do so play . And , while repudiating any graver general “ purpose " than that of amusing , he has endeavoured to deduce from the adventures of his shadowy tourists a tiny scrap of morality , to the effect ...
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... English else . Not a very full complement of travellers either . Those weari- some passports may have had something to do with checking the flow of emigration , and Rotterdam is not usually the place where a continental pleasure tour ...
... English else . Not a very full complement of travellers either . Those weari- some passports may have had something to do with checking the flow of emigration , and Rotterdam is not usually the place where a continental pleasure tour ...
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... English groom who had taken to the society of gentlemen professing the noble science of self - defence . The stout gentleman chris- tened him Jemmy Shaw on the spot . The slouching cap , the trousers tight from the knee downwards , and ...
... English groom who had taken to the society of gentlemen professing the noble science of self - defence . The stout gentleman chris- tened him Jemmy Shaw on the spot . The slouching cap , the trousers tight from the knee downwards , and ...
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... English school- boys on board , going to resume their studies at some boarding - school at Andernath , I think , on the Rhine- frank , honest , ruddy , well - spoken lads , full of cheery good humour and modest self - reliance . They ...
... English school- boys on board , going to resume their studies at some boarding - school at Andernath , I think , on the Rhine- frank , honest , ruddy , well - spoken lads , full of cheery good humour and modest self - reliance . They ...
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... English cop- pers among the shoeblack crowd , remarking that he could not box twenty boys ' ears , but that the pennies might hit twenty boys ' heads . The luggage being hoisted on a truck , of very Dutch construction , half - way ...
... English cop- pers among the shoeblack crowd , remarking that he could not box twenty boys ' ears , but that the pennies might hit twenty boys ' heads . The luggage being hoisted on a truck , of very Dutch construction , half - way ...
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Austrian bank banker Batavier blue boots bourg breakfast bridge called cards castle cigar coat Cologne colour companions cried croupier declared Dutch England English Eppo Eppstein eyes fawn fellow florins France Frankfort French gambling German giant girls gold grapes hand head Hesse-Hombourg Hollowpenny Hombourg Hombourg-von-der-Höhe horses huge hundred infallible system iron chest Jews King kreutzers Kursaal ladies Landgrave laughed London looked Lord Mayence meerschaum morning moustaches Napoleon never night nose old gentleman once palace pass pipes play pocket postilion pretty Prinz von Preussen Prussian Rackrent red-nosed remarked Rhine Rotterdam rouge et noir roulette round Rudesheimer Schloss schnaps silver slim gentleman smoking stake steamer stout friend stout gentle stout gentleman Street table d'hôte Taunus tell thousand three travellers tion tower town trente et quarante turned wheel wine young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 87 - TO THE LADY ANNE HAMILTON.* Too late I staid, forgive the crime, Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass...
Seite 97 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Seite 189 - The unfledged gamester watches the play more narrowly. A stout lady in a maroon velvet mantle, and a man with a bald head, a black patch on his occiput, and gold spectacles, obligingly makes way for him.
Seite 194 - ... indignation meetings of Venezuelan bond-holders, coupons, cases of champagne, satin-skinned horses with plaited manes, grand stands, pretty faces, bright flags, lobster salads, cold lamb, fortune-telling gipsies, barouches-and-four, and "our Aunt Sally." High play is still rife in some aristocratic clubs ; there are prosperous gentlemen who wear clean linen every day, and whose names are still in the Army List, who make their...
Seite 98 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope! my joy! my Genevieve! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Seite 195 - Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Seite 122 - And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! "How happy,
Seite 170 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Seite 183 - ... to shuffle and mix. He then finally shuffles them, and removes the end cards into various parts of the three hundred and twelve cards, until he meets with a court card, which he must place upright at the end.