We may live through it, and the ills of society may correct themselves, though there is one fact that men aces more evil than any thing I could have feared.

I have only one gift I'm handy with cards and I can deal myself three out of the four aces but that's not much good to a man who tries to earn an honest living.

Here the two youths won fresh laurels, and both were well on the way to be recognized "aces" by the time Pershing's army succeeded in fighting its way through the nests of machine-gun traps that infested the great Argonne Forest.

It's Lieutenant Colin Beverly, one of the cleverest Yankee aces of the newer squad.

"Another machine to the scrap-heap!" laughingly observed the most celebrated of Yankee aces, slapping Colin on the shoulder.

No other hand into my soul Could greater solace bring, Than that I held last night, which was Four aces and a king.

I had three aces and a pair of deuces, an' he took it on three fives and two sixes.

I delight to lead them first hand round, but I have not the courage of my convictions, for I always feel little quivers of fear when I do it, because when my trumps and aces are gone, then I'm gone too.

Red aces, being three cases of Mr. Reeder.

(In Black aces, Jan. 1932)

(In Flying aces, June 1939)

HOLMES, L. P. Aces and eights.

Death House bargin [sic] (In Ten detective aces.

DODD, MEAD & CO., INC. Aces wild at Golden Eagle.

Aces wild at Golden Eagle.

Aces back to back.

DODD, MEAD & CO., INC. Aces wild at Golden Eagle.

Aces wild at Golden Eagle.

"If you hadn't bought that white horse from that drunken Spaniard, I'd be holding a handful of aces and kings to-night, most likely, in Bill Wilson's place.

Zounds, the rogue has a quint-major, and three aces younger hand.[Looks on the other cards.]

But bare forty, and he fifty-one: Fifteen, and five for the point, twenty, and three by aces, twenty-three; well, I am to play first: one, twenty-three; two, twenty-three; three, twenty-three; four, twenty-three;Pox on't, now I must play into his hand: five:now you take it, Jack;five, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, and the cards forty.

Fourteen by aces, and a sixieme-major; I am gone, without looking into my cards.[Takes up an ace

By your favour, but I do; and 'twas won fairly: a sixieme, and fourteen by aces, by your own confession,What a pox, we don't make childrens' play, I hope? Trice.

You have come, so to speak, as an extemporization, an auxiliary; you will add one more unit to the flyers in the expedition, of which there are nine aces, including Major Bohannan here.

The stranger laid down four aces and scooped in the pot.