And if we got it despite his lead of aces, how gravely he squinted on the cards against deception, with his glasses forward on his nose!

It was too soon to dare to be happy, yet; for it was on the cards that, even when I had saved Raoul from the consequences of my political treachery, Godensky might still be able to ruin me with him.

" "Jellicoe doesn't think so," said I. "He thinks it quite on the cards that John Bellingham is alive.

It was quite on the cards I might wander back into Princetown under the happy impression that I was going in exactly the opposite direction.

"It's just on the cards," he said, "that Joyce might know where he is.

I found myself answering that it was quite on the cards that he might.

Adj. impending &c v.; destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect &c (expected) 507; looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant &c (producing) 161.

Adj. liable, subject; in danger &c 665; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from^; apt to; dependent on; incident to. contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of. 5. COMBINATIONS OF CAUSES 178.

To be a "Mrs. Ryfe" when on the cards lay such a prize as the Bearwarden coronet, when she need only put out her hand and take Dick Stanmore, with his brown locks, his broad shoulders, his genial, generous heart, for better or worse!

Come, make your inventory, put your seals on everythingthe house, the furniture, and on the cards, too.

It's on the cards I might sink him and come back again and pick you up.'

In the interview, Shastri affirmed that a separate status for Goa was on the cards.

There was medical evidence to show that, in his atrabilious state, it was quite on the cards that he might have made away with himself.

It is on the cards.'

Was it not on the cards that Allan, the minister, had never undergone any ceremony of ordination?

It's quite on the cards we shall have to fall back, but I hope to Heaven in good order and with sound lines of communication.

" "And you will marry her, I suppose, Jack, as soon as her mourning is over?" "Well, yes; it is on the cards," John Saltram said, in an indifferent tone.

" "You're a good fellow, Medler; and if ever fortune should favour me, which hardly seems on the cards, I sha'n't forget what I promised you the other day.

But the tutor kept his hands on the cards, which lay in a heap face downwards on the table.

There was an end of candle in a basin behind the bed, which threw circles of wavering light over the coarse whitewash of the roof and on the cards and faded photographs above the tiny mantelpiece.

From all that I hear, it is on the cards that he may be arrested and put into prison.

It's on the cards.

I kept my eyes on the cards, and there was silence till Mr. Somers exclaimed, "Don't trump now, Mr. Morgeson.

* ON THE CARDS.

The cause, if such were the case, would have preceded the effect by some forty years; but whether it is on the cards to suppose that such an effect may have been produced after such a length of time, I have not physiological knowledge enough to tell.