Which preposition to use with gaming
If people play a good game of bridge, they are welcome guests in a great many houses which formerly would have been closed to them, and it is a great resource to ladies no longer very young, widows and spinsters, who find their days long and don't know what to do with their lives.
The hounds were called off, and with our game in one of the boats, we rowed back around the promontory, and passed on towards the Saranac River, which connects by a tortuous course of five miles, the Lower Saranac with Round Lake.
[Illustration: LUCIFERS LITTLE GAME WITH HIS ROYAL PUPPETS.]
"He won that game for us; why didn't they let him go on a few days more till the end of the term?"
"I wonder where those fellows Vance and Trevanock are?" said Acton the following afternoon, as the boys were picking up for a game at prisoner's base.
Mark did'nt take his rifle with him, thinkin' of course that he would see no game on the ice worth shootin', and a gun would only be an incumbrance to him.
The buck was game to the backbone, and had no notion of givin' in, and I had to fight for it, or die; so up and down, over and over, and all around, we went for a long time, until Crop made up his mind that my callin' so earnestly meant something, and round the point he came.
" A.J. REACH, Philadelphia, old time professional expert:"It certainly is an interesting revelation of the national game from the time, years before it was so dignified, up to the present.
That boy had as much chance in the game as a deacon.
For instance, he might set down the points of a game by strokes, each line representing a different opponent: John |||||||||||||||| Henry ||||||||||| Tom ||| He will see how difficult it is to estimate at a glance the exact score, and how easy it is to be inaccurate.
Of course they are bigger and heavier than we are, and we should probably get licked; but that isn't the question: any sportsman would sooner play a losing game than no game at all, and it'll be good practice.
A Match Game between Centenarians."Roomatix" vs. "Bloostockin's.
The boys will make a loud clatter with the horses, and we shall bag the game without a blow.
This may be a traditional game like Looby Loo, or Round and round the Village, or it may be one of the best of the old Kindergarten games.
We read of excursions for all kinds of purposes, of Indian games out of Fenimore Cooper, and of "Homeric battles."
'I believe they're going to have games after dinner,' said Bruce.
"How many of the regular team do you want to throw into the game against Hanniston, Mr. Hepson?" inquired Lieutenant-Commander Havens the night before the game.
" He came through safely; for at the same moment the musical "Cling-clank" of a sweetmeat-seller's bell turned the game into a race.
The former won the greater percentage of games under the old rule in vogue of allotting percentage upon victories.
There was plenty of small game about them, and it was warm under the windfall.
Those were the days when if a man had a deer, a sheep, an antelope, or the bosse ribs of a buffalo cow on his pack or in his wagon, it did not occur to him to shoot at the game among which he rode.
Mr. Oakhurst settled himself coolly to the losing game before him.
Most of the States have laws forbidding the killing, capture or pursuit of different kinds of game during specified portions of the year.
From this circumstance arose the right of lords of manors or others to the game within their respective liberties; and to protect these species of animals, the game laws were originated, and still remain in force.
By some good fortune I was able to win seven games off the reel in each case.