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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... looked as mortuary as a whole Merthyr Tydvil mine full of door nails ; the flagstaff of the Palace was bare ; the Bird- cage Walk held no birds ; no aristocratic Mordecais sat in Storey's Gate ; there was nobody in Parliament Street ...
... looked as mortuary as a whole Merthyr Tydvil mine full of door nails ; the flagstaff of the Palace was bare ; the Bird- cage Walk held no birds ; no aristocratic Mordecais sat in Storey's Gate ; there was nobody in Parliament Street ...
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... looked sadly at beds already made , and needing no re - making ; waiters whistled as they went for want of some one to cry " Vla ! M'sieu ! " to ; and the columns of empty hotel ledgers laughed to see the sport . But all whispered with ...
... looked sadly at beds already made , and needing no re - making ; waiters whistled as they went for want of some one to cry " Vla ! M'sieu ! " to ; and the columns of empty hotel ledgers laughed to see the sport . But all whispered with ...
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... looked very like a gentleman who was going into the City on business . Well - hadn't he come into the City in order to embark on board the Batavier , and wasn't going abroad his business just now ? He was pre- cisely the sort of equable ...
... looked very like a gentleman who was going into the City on business . Well - hadn't he come into the City in order to embark on board the Batavier , and wasn't going abroad his business just now ? He was pre- cisely the sort of equable ...
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... looked into a damp garden , where were some rickety round tables and chairs , painted a faded emerald green , and in the cen- tre a mildewed , broken - nosed cast of the far - darting Phoebus , on a cracked wooden pedestal , with some ...
... looked into a damp garden , where were some rickety round tables and chairs , painted a faded emerald green , and in the cen- tre a mildewed , broken - nosed cast of the far - darting Phoebus , on a cracked wooden pedestal , with some ...
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... looked round in quest of where the horse - collar might be . The stout gentleman was not at all discomposed at his advent , and was proceeding to make those preparatory feints at himself with his razor , which a right - minded and ...
... looked round in quest of where the horse - collar might be . The stout gentleman was not at all discomposed at his advent , and was proceeding to make those preparatory feints at himself with his razor , which a right - minded and ...
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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 267 - ALL ROUND THE WORLD. An Illustrated Record of Voyages, Travels and Adventures in all Parts of the Globe.
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.