A gentleman may play, sir,I throw the dice occasionally, myself, and love to see a well-matched, race as well as any man,but he ceases to be a gentleman the moment he plays beyond his means,a fact which you will do well to remember.

Two by two the dicers sat at table, casting the dice.

She shakes the dice, the boards she knocks, And from all pockets fills her box.

[Fr.]; the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances [Scott]; the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms [Bentley]; God does not play dice with the universe [A. Einstein].

Then Aeacus decreed he should rattle dice for ever in a box with no bottom.

Fair hope had he who held the dice, after his fellow had cried his number.

But when she stepped into the sphere of the lantern light that spread faintly through the cell, she was astonished to see Arizona and Sinclair kneeling opposite each other, shooting dice with abandon and snapping of the fingers.

y que es capaz de hacerlo lo mismo que lo dice ...

Now, applying the illustration to drama, I should say that the playwright is perfectly justified in letting chance play its probable and even inevitable part in the affairs of his characters; but that, the moment we suspect him of cogging the dice, we feel that he is taking an unfair advantage of us, and our imagination either cries, "I won't play!"

A man accustomed to throw for a thousand pounds, if set down to throw for sixpence, would not be at the pains to count his dice.

But you will say by this reason, he that hath the first dice, is like alwaies to stripp and rob all the table about.

For instance, placing hot eggs under the arm-pits; introducing dice between the skin and flesh; tying lighted candles to the fingers, so that they might be consumed simultaneously with the wax; letting water trickle drop by drop from a great height on the stomach; and also the custom, which was, according to writers on criminal matters, an indescribable torture, of watering the feet with salt water and allowing goats to lick them.

ALEA, a warrior who invented dice at the siege of Troy; at least so Isidore of Seville says.

" In that state of freedom you got whatever you could in any way you could; you were not your neighbour's keeper, and except that it interfered with the enterprise of pickpockets, burglars and forgers, and kept the dice loaded in favour of landlords and lawyers, the State stood aside from the great drama of human getting.

Y quién le dice a usted que yo no esperaba esta misma visita? DON EDUARDO.

I who cog or palm the dice?

"I bet that lad never reads his dice wrong," he murmured, admiringly.

Again I rolled the dice.

I seized the dice.

Then he would pick 'em up again, and once more set a-trying: The dice but served him the same trick: away they went a-flying.

From this couch of the desperate, I was carried into the presence of a magistrate, to hear that in the mélée of the night before, I had in my rage charged my honest-faced acquaintance with palpable cheating; and having made good my charge by shewing the loaded dice in his hand, had knocked him down with a violence that made his recovery more than doubtful.

He studies false dice to cheat costermongers.

The King was highly incensed against his brother, and, though most feeble from the effects of his illness, went to him, and taking the dice and the tables, had them thrown into the sea."

He tossed the dice gently up into the air so that they stayed together until they hit the felt.

But see how Fortune can confound the wise, And when they least expect it, turn the dice!