The Hand-book of Games: Comprising New Or Carefully Revised Treatises on Whist, Piquet, Ecarté, Lansquenet, Boston, Quadrille, Cribbage, and Other Card Games; Faro, Rouge Et Noir, Hazard, Roulette; Backgammon, Draughts; Billiards, Bagatelle, Amercan Bowls, Etc., EtcH.G. Bohn Bell & Daldy, 1867 - 617 pages |
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Page 14
... never before played a game , may acquire sufficient knowledge of it from the pre- sent pages to teach himself , without falling into erroneous modes or habits . In conducting this rather arduous part of the volume through the press ...
... never before played a game , may acquire sufficient knowledge of it from the pre- sent pages to teach himself , without falling into erroneous modes or habits . In conducting this rather arduous part of the volume through the press ...
Page 21
... hand . H. p . 72 . 20. Never force your partner if you are weak in trumps , unless you have a renounce , or can ensure the odd trick . M.p 10 ; H. p . 49 . 21. When playing for the odd trick , be cautious BOB SHORT'S RULES . xiii.
... hand . H. p . 72 . 20. Never force your partner if you are weak in trumps , unless you have a renounce , or can ensure the odd trick . M.p 10 ; H. p . 49 . 21. When playing for the odd trick , be cautious BOB SHORT'S RULES . xiii.
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... never quitting their employment , and thus continue for a hun- dred millions of years , accomplishing sixty deals every hour , they would not have exhausted one hundred thousandth part of the essentially different ways in which fifty ...
... never quitting their employment , and thus continue for a hun- dred millions of years , accomplishing sixty deals every hour , they would not have exhausted one hundred thousandth part of the essentially different ways in which fifty ...
Page 8
... Never lead a card without a reason , though a wrong one ; it is better than accustoming yourself to play at random . Do not at first puzzle yourself with many calculations . Those you will find hereafter mentioned are sufficient even ...
... Never lead a card without a reason , though a wrong one ; it is better than accustoming yourself to play at random . Do not at first puzzle yourself with many calculations . Those you will find hereafter mentioned are sufficient even ...
Page 9
... never lead from a single card without six trumps ; many do so from weakness ; some have a trick of throwing down high cards to the adversary's lead , and then , by way of deception , affect to consider , although they have no ...
... never lead from a single card without six trumps ; many do so from weakness ; some have a trick of throwing down high cards to the adversary's lead , and then , by way of deception , affect to consider , although they have no ...
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advantage adver adversary leads adversary's ball Article ball winning hazard baulk bricole called carambole Caster throw chance count crib Cribbage cushion deal dealer dealt Deschapelles deuce discard Drawn eight elder hand equal fault finesse five cards full ball winning gain give happen hold holes honours king knave last player left-hand adversary losing hazard manille matadores move and win nine number of points odd trick odds pack partner leads person placed play the king playing a ball pocket d pocket g pool probability punter queen quinola reckon red ball remain reversis revoke right-hand adversary round rubber rule score sequence seven small card small clubs small hearts spades Spadille stake striker's ball stroke strong in trumps strong suit suppose three small trumps three-handed whist turned unless vols weak in trumps Whist White to move win the game winning and losing younger-hand
Popular passages
Page 243 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace ; Th...
Page 242 - In show like leaders of the swarthy moors. Spadillio first, unconquerable lord ! Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.
Page 243 - In heaps on heaps ; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance !) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look ; She sees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Just in the jaws of ruin, and codille.
Page 7 - With Index to the entire Work. In 3 vols. Matthew of Westminster's Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain ; to AD 1307. Translated by CD YONGE. In 2 vols. Ordericus Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy.
Page 242 - The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine; The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the Toilet cease.
Page 242 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a matadore, Then each, according to the rank they bore ; For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.
Page 264 - ... multiply each numerator by all the denominators, except its own, for a new numerator, and under it write the common denominator.
Page 530 - JENNY; and it is one of the most common, as well as one of the most...
Page 615 - Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 243 - Gain'd but one trump and one Plebeian card. With his broad sabre next, a chief in years, The hoary Majesty of Spades appears, Puts forth one manly leg, to sight reveal'd, The rest, his many-colour'd robe conceal'd.