Which preposition to use with gambling

with Occurrences 38%

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.

on Occurrences 22%

"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.

in Occurrences 20%

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

for Occurrences 17%

His death did not stop the fascinating gamble for empire.

in Occurrences 11%

Well, as I said, we, as a people, do not believe in gambling in human misery to attain uncertain speculative gains.

at Occurrences 9%

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

on Occurrences 7%

"The love of money, the gambling on the race-course and the Stock Exchange, are the root of all evil.

with Occurrences 4%

But hitherto this desperate gambling with life had been carried on in Egypt and Syria; the play had been with Hellenistic pawnsEgyptian or Syrian princes; the last Cleopatra came to play with Roman pieces, easier apparently to move than the others, but implying higher stakes, greater glory in the victory, greater disaster in the defeat.

of Occurrences 3%

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.

as Occurrences 2%

In this I struck at gambling as a social amusement, which was then rapidly coming into fashion in our little city, and which to me was new and alarming.

like Occurrences 2%

Well, here it is: I hear that your clients and their partners for life are in the habit of gambling like fury up there.

of Occurrences 2%

Though a conscientious wish to avoid civil war mingled largely with the selfishness of trade, and the heartless gambling of politicians, all was alike interpreted by them as signs of Northern cowardice.

after Occurrences 1%

I fancy Selincourt's fate made a great impression on him, for I never heard of his gambling after Selincourt's dismissal," answered her father.

among Occurrences 1%

It may be supposed, then, that I thought my money very well invested when it procured me an invitation to "Mon Repos," where the lady of the house was in the habit of allowing a genteel amount of gambling among her male friends.

at Occurrences 1%

"Mrs. Jenkin was saying only yesterday that there has not been half so much drinking and gambling at Seal Cove this winter as there was last year, because the men would rather come here and listen to your lectures on history and geography.

by Occurrences 1%

This meant what is known as a "wash" sale, a fictitious one arranged in advance between two brokers to establish the basis for the trades that are to followone of those minor frauds of stock-gambling by which the public is deceived and the traders and plungers are handicapped with loaded dice.

for Occurrences 1%

I at last realized that making cigars for a living and gambling for a living could not both be carried on at the same time, and I resolved to give up the cigar making.

from Occurrences 1%

The next morning, he bought a book on gambling from the bookstore next to the Victory Deli.

inside Occurrences 1%

And you know that John Howthill stood in the pillory for two hours and had both his hands bored through with a hot iron for allowing gambling inside his coffeehouse. ...

than Occurrences 1%

The exhibitions are usually crowded with half-breeds or mestizos, who are generally more addicted to gambling than either the higher or lower classes of Spaniards.

against Occurrences 1%

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

without Occurrences 1%

But something can perhaps be done to discourage gamblers' wars, though even here any stockbroker will tell you how difficult it is to suppress gambling without injuring the spirit of enterprise.

among Occurrences 1%

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

as Occurrences 1%

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."

beyond Occurrences 1%

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

Which preposition to use with  gambling