" "He certainly held trumps this time, anyway," I commented.

There are mining shares there which I would not have bought at a farthing a piece; but your father bought them, and they've everyone of them, or nearly everyone of them, turned up trumps.

When Gabriel plays his last trump.

No joys to him pacific sceptres yield War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field; Behold surrounding kings their powers combine, And one capitulate, and one resign: Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; 'Think nothing gained,' he cries, 'till naught remain!

Spadillio first, unconquerable lord! Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.

When thou hearest the trump blown then ascend to the hill.

Did Fletcher Read, on that after day, when Panmure blew the white iron trump, not expect to see Kalee rise up and seek judgment on the house of Logie?

Jehu has certainly come up trumps after all, and Chinaman bids fair to be even more valuable.

The correct play was to clear the trumps, and I led the knave.

Ye hae tint the tongue o' the trump.

Of thy refreshings let my sad heart drink; 'Tis past!too latetoo late, vain trump, your swelling; My spirit ear hath heard a surer knelling 'Tis passing sweet, what these mule wires are telling O what a joy to think!

Yet scarcely have I play'd my card, When up comes politician Ward, Before my face he trumps my trump, Sweeps off my honours in the lump, And never asking my permission, Talks sermons to the third edition.

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....

He brought out his trump, so to speak, when he mentioned Miss Sallianna, and alluded to his intention never to return, perhaps.

"The Southern Religious Telegraph" was publishing an impassioned address to Kosciusko; standards were being consecrated for Poland in the larger cities; heroes, like Skrzynecki, Czartoryski, Rozyski, Kaminski, were choking the trump of Fame with their complicated patronymics.

I declare no trumps.

"Albizzi o Medici?" had once and again divided the power of Florence, but in the course of high play in the game of politics the latter held the better hands, drew more trumps, and gained rubber after rubber.

A Chesnut Horse called Cæsar, bred by James Darcy, Esq., at Sedbury, near Richmond in the County of York; his Grandam was his old royal Mare, and got by Blunderbuss, which was got by Hemsly Turk, and he got Mr. Courand's Arabian, which got Mr. Minshul's Jews-trump.

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

I had half engaged myself elsewhere, thinking that he did not quite appreciate such a trump as I know Borrow to be.

"Okay, every one!" shouted Elephant as he raised his trunk high in the air and let out a great trump which just about blew everyone off his back.