You seen how only clerking in them was nearly your ruinationthe little gambling-room-in-the-back kind that you pick out.

They ain't cigar-stores; they're only false faces for gambling.

" "I know I got a big job, Jimmie, but I want to make a man out of you, temper, laziness, gambling, and all.

Many of these little gambling shops were superintended by women, who proved themselves far from deficient in loquacious inducements for adventurers; and by their dexterous settlement of the chances, left little time for losers to reflect on their folly.

The table for the gambling was moved to the sward by the shingle, and lamps hung upon bamboos planted at each end.

When she was lost in the gambling match, and Duhshásana tried to strip her, still as he pulled off one dress, another appeared below it, refusing to leave her naked.

" It may have been the memory of that heavy whip handle, it may have been the moral effect of stray biographical bits garnered here and there around the gambling-table, or it may have been merely a high and natural chivalry, totally unsuspected until now, which prompted Petersen to treat Ponatah with a chill and formal courtesy when he returned from St. Michaels.

A favorite pastime in the day was gambling with a small wheel called it-se'-wah.

But being without conscience or scruples, and determined to get rich at no matter what cost, deriving from gambling and speculation what they might have earned by patient and steady work, they engaged in all sorts of impossible adventures.

What an extraordinary method of reducing oneself to beggary is gambling!

He had embarked upon a lively careerthat gambling trade known as dealing in stock.

Señor Rey is an artist in many ways, not only as a master of gambling chances.

Any one who sends a minor under the age of 18 to a saloon, gambling house, or brothel, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

He would keep clear of race-courses and gambling booths, he told himself, and of the kind of men who had beguiled him into dishonourable dealing.

Stephen Whitelaw had been speculating or gambling, and his affairs were in disorder.

The only information that Gilbert Fenton could ever obtain from America was, of a shabby swindler arrested in a gambling-house in one of the more remote western cities, whose description corresponded pretty closely with that of Marian's father.

If you should drop five-and-twenty louis one day, you will be accused of gambling on the next, and your best friends will report that you have lost twenty-five thousand.

Crews of these desperadoes, therefore, the runagates of every country and every clime, might be seen swaggering in open day about the streets, elbowing its quiet inhabitants, trafficking their rich outlandish plunder at half or quarter price to the wary merchant; and then squandering their prize-money in taverns, drinking, gambling, singing, carousing and astounding the neighborhood with midnight brawl and revelry.

Twice before, way back in our college days, I had had a peep at this gambling tempter of Bob's.

She does not believe in stock-gambling.

The other day she said to me, 'I have decided, because of my duty to my father, to put away my prejudice against gambling, but no duty to him or to any one can justify me in playing with marked cards.'

It represented a certain phase of Stock-Exchange-gambling procedure, where one man apparently has every other man on the floor against him.

Gambling for the diamond?" "I?" said Kieff, with a stretching of his thin, colourless lips that was scarcely a smile.

It is part of my mortification that the story goes that this man once showed this ring, boasted of it, staked, and lost it at a gambling table to one of his vile comrades.

It is true that his liberality was of an ornamental, insinuating quality, accompanied with but little sacrifice; his acceptance of a collection taken up in a gambling-saloon for the rebuilding of his church, destroyed by fire, gave him a popularity large enough, it must be confessed, to cover the sins of the gamblers themselves, but it was not proven that he had ever organized any form of relief.