He speedily became notorious in the little town for his wild moroseness, for his savage ferocity when excited, for his inordinate love of cards.

Did these people ever think,as they watched the sombre, stubborn Gaucho sweating over a tapia, subjecting a drove of peons to his authority, or, stretched upon a hide, growing ferocious as the luck went against him at cards,that here was one of those forces which mould or overturn the world?

Even his most monstrous acts of perfidy appear to have been committed on the spur of the moment, with less calculation than he gave to a game at cards.

His two engrossing objectsif objects, indeed, he may be said to have possessedwere extortion and the uprooting of the last vestiges of civilization and law; his instruments, the dagger and the lash; his amusement, the torture of unwitting offenders; his serious occupation, the shuffling of cards.

For gambling the man had an insatiable thirst; he played once for forty hours without intermission; it was death to refuse a game with him; no one might cease playing without his express commands; no one durst win the stakes; and as a consequence, he accumulated at cards in a few years almost all the coined money then existing in the province.

Thus lapsed her youth of frolics into an old age of cards.

Harris, in the pocket of my coat, which hangs in the pilot house, you will find a pack of cards.

" Harris walked away and returned a few seconds later with a pack of playing cards.

He cut the cards and exposed to view a jack of hearts.

"Looks like you will carry the papers yourself, sir," said Frank, as he advanced to cut the cards.

Jack counted the cards again.

For some moments Jack sat silent, staring at the cards before him.

Therefore "all did not die in Adam," and seeing this is the foundation of the dogmatic Christianity invented by Paul, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

Two boys employed as messengers at the capitol, both of whom are now prominent business men in the city, procured a key to the house, and, in company with a number of other kids, proceeded to representative hall, where they were frequently in the habit of congregating for the purpose of playing cards, smoking cigars, and committing such other depradations as it was possible for kids to conceive.

Rance Belmont smoked cigarettes constantly and shuffled the cards as if to read his fate therein.

And at her age, it would be too sad..." Across the drawing-room that lady looked up from her cards and sharply interrogated a manservant who had silently presented himself to her attention.

The footman had entered to bring her cards over which Eve de Montalais arched her brows.

Here's the invitationrough paperChapelspreadsLyceum Halleverything splendid; and Jack to take care of me!" As Kitty burst into the room and performed a rapturous pas seul, waving the cards over her head, sister Priscilla looked up from her work with a smile of satisfaction on her quiet face.

The conversation was not interesting to Terrence and he had gone to another part of the camp, to engage in a game of cards with a sentry.

He was still gazing into the smouldering fire, when Terrence, who had won all the money from the soldier with whom he was playing cards, came to him and said: "Captain, are ye goin' to spend the night gazing into the fire?" "No, Terrence; I am not sleepy; but I will lie down.

A fine was imposed on every woman wearing her hair cut short like a man's; all gaming for amusement or gain was forbidden, and cards and dice were not permitted in the colony.

Play all your cards close."

No tax-farmer's slave could keep track of the flow of intangible wealth when the bills for a million sesterces passed to and fro like cards in an Egyptian game.

The letters 'A.J.' were stamped in gold on his pocketbook, and in his cardcase were a number of cards engraved: 'A. Jones, Sangoa.'

"Absolutely honest!" It made Sandersen wish to go straight to the gunfighter, put his cards on the table, confess what he had done to Sinclair's brother, and then express his sorrow.