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  • Dining-rooms, billiard-rooms, and card-rooms would suffice for the Beargarden.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • Indicating coldly that he was to follow her she walked out into the hall with her chin uptilted and headed for the privacy of one of the little card-rooms.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • He had difficulty in locating the young man at first; a survey of his usual haunts, the bar and card-rooms, failed to disclose him, but Wiley ran him to earth finally in the library, deep in a bulky and serious-looking volume.

    The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

  • He was emerging from the coat-room when a familiar voice came to his ears through the half-open door of one of the smaller card-rooms, and the words arrested him like a command.

    The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

  • We lounged in the saloon and saw the young ladies manage their beaux and the old ones their children; dropped into the card-rooms and watched the innocent games -- some heavy ones of "draw poker" with a

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • Now it has always struck me, perhaps more forcibly on this occasion than on any other, that the most selfish men on the face of the earth are to be found in the card-rooms of clubs.

    The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

  • There were offices, card-rooms, bar-rooms aboard all these boats; and as the down-trip occupies from forty-eight to one hundred hours -- according to the stage of the river and the luck in running aground, a performance to be expected once in each trip -- we become quite a mutual amusement community by the time it is over.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • On the second floor billiard-rooms, card-rooms, a library opened from the hall.

    Chapter 9. Victory 1922

  • Indicating coldly that he was to follow her she walked out into the hall with her chin uptilted and headed for the privacy of one of the little card-rooms.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • We shall have billiard-rooms, card-rooms, music-rooms, bowling-alleys and many spacious theaters and free libraries; and on the main deck we propose to have a driving park, with upward of 100,000 miles of roadway in it.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

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