The winning of a battle has obliterated a meanly spent youth.

"You get half the winnings in the morning," he said to Arthur.

"Always takes some soft-handed dude to make a winning with a fool girl," he comforted himself.

He had a large faith in the power of argument backed by force, and his winning over of Abbas and Abu Sofian chiefly by the aid of these two factors, combined with their personal ambition, is only the supreme instance of his master-strokes of policy.

The story of his wealth had been magnified, and his winnings at play, which were considerable, were told and calculated at every tea-table.

Nothing can be more winning than the picture of the village home thus presented.

He had put all his money in front of him, some two hundred and sixty pounds all told, for his winnings during the last half hour had not been as steady as heretofore, and he had not yet succeeded altogether in making up that sum of money for which he yearned with all the intensity of a disturbed conscience, eager to redeem one miserable fault by another hardly more avowable.

But on the next play he staked what I knew must be the remainder of his winnings on what seemed a very good chance.

Donnegan dropped the heavy sack of Godwin's winnings to the floor, and while George hung the lantern on a nail on the wall, Donnegan crossed to the table and appeared to run through the papers.

Having come from behind in 1911 and made a winning from a wretched start, the Mackmen apparently thought they could do it again and delayed starting their fight until it was too late.

This is a tragic loss to the small cultivator, though, as yet, he is not suffering, and he usually puts all such winnings into his stocking.