Yes, the mighty arms of the Union were about him; the trump of a fame, such as no song had ever sung, was poised to blow to the world his daring.

" One must confess that Dick played his last trump in a masterly fashion.

And now they were quits, each holding as good a trump as the other: for Oline stood there knowing all the time that Os-Anders the Lapp had died the day before....

" In mountains, poets say, Echo is hid, For her deformity and monstrous shape: Those mountains are the houses of great lords, Where Stentor, with his hundred voices, sounds A hundred trumps at once with rumour fill'd.

But the billswhich were the trumps for Jerroldamounted to fifty dollars more than he had been promised for the whole course of lessons.

She saw no reason for the deciding of the trump by the turn of the card.

He told me, too, that the Colonel who presided over his court-martial for playing cards with a prisoner acquitted him of neglect of duty, but nearly broke him because he thought that he had not cleared his trumps before leading his suit.

Down goes my no trump on the tablea good, a very good no trump.

You were not with me long, only a few minutes, but when I left you and trumped over the hill to the inn I could not get you out of my mind.

He has in his hand the ace, king, queen and five diamonds, the king of clubs guarded, the ace and two little hearts, and he takes me out into diamonds from no trumps with a score at love all.