" This was after supper, and Patricia was playing solitaire.

On the day set for Madame Esmond's entertainment to General Braddock the House of Castlewood was set out with the greatest splendour; and Madame Esmond arrayed herself in a much more magnificent dress than she was accustomed to wear, while the boys were dressed alike in gold-corded frocks, braided waistcoats, silver-hilted sword, and wore each a solitaire.

The little man in black kept dealing solitaire.

When he saw Miss Harris at supper-time and undertook to explain his black eyes she assured him coldly that he and his ebony gig-lamps mattered nothing in her young life, as evidence of which she flashed a magnificent three-quarter carat diamond solitaire on her third finger.

Hyde ceased playing solitaire long enough to pan samples in his tub of snow water.

He taught her coon-can, two-handed whist and Chinese solitaire before a gray lightening outside proclaimed that the night was over.

Ce monde, enveloppé d'une brume éternelle, Était fatal: l'Espoir avait plié son aile; Pas d'unité, divorce et joug; diversité De langue, de raison, de code, de cité; Nul lien; nul faisceau; le progrès solitaire, Comme un serpent coupé, se tordait sur la terre, Sans pouvoir réunir les tronçons de l'effort; L'esclavage, parquant les peuples pour la mort, Les enfermait au fond d'un cirque de frontières

Ambrose continued his solitaire, humming as he played.