Scott and Charley were great lovers and consumers of "tanglefoot," and they soon got gloriously drunk, keeping it up for three days, during which time they gambled with the ranchmen, who got away with all their money; but little they cared for that, as they had their spree.

"Led astray by a companion, I have been gambling on the Bourse, and am involved in yesterday's crash, in which so many fortunes have been suddenly swamped.

" "There's not as big a gamble in the world as the show business.

His death did not stop the fascinating gamble for empire.

He began to gamble at cards, sitting up often nearly all night, and losing or winning considerable sums of money.

It is a huge new State, founded on force, cemented by fear, and financed on speculative gains to be derived from the great gamble of war.

It's no more of a gamble than anything else a Colorado man is likely to invest in.

And the young men came back to sit by our fires for a time, full of ill speech and rough ways, drinking evil drinks and gambling through long nights and days, with a great unrest always in their hearts, till the call of the white men came to them and they went away again to the unknown places.

Pleasure called him away from the boredom of empire; and at the stroke of six we find him retiring to the company of his mistresses and his roués to feast and drink and gamble until dawn broke on the revelryhis laugh the loudest, his wit the most dazzling, his stories the most piquant, keeping the table in a roar with his infectious gaiety.

Soldiers on piquet often gambled within sight of an enemy's advanced post. Memoirs of Gen. Miller.

At each end of the course were two men, who gambled against each other.

Licentiousness without shame, drunkenness without rebuke, gambling without honor, and frivolity without wit characterized, alas, a great proportion of that "upper class" who disdained the occupations and sneered at the virtues of industrial life.

These beggared aristocrats, male and female, would throw their money away by day among the wondering natives, and gamble among themselves at night.

Yet, if we peer into filthy pulperías here and there between San Luis and San Juan, we may catch a glimpse of a shaggy, swarthy savage, gambling, gambling as if for life; and we may also hear of more than one affray in which his dagger has "come home richer than it went."

I told him that a gentleman ceased to be a gentleman when once he gambled beyond his means.

The children look on and learn to gamble from their earliest childhood, and soon learn to cheat and impose on their juniors.

Pray do not trouble to tell me again how foolish it is to gamble like that.