dominoes

• Meanwhile, after this past weekend's Freddie and Fannie takeovers, looks like the dominoes are falling with Lehman Brothers looking for a buyer and —  Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking
• I don't know what colours their dominoes were. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
• He got up and strolled into the stuffy reading-room There he found a game of dominoes, a mutilated picture-puzzle, some copies of Zion's Herald and a pile of New York and London newspapers He began to glance through the papers, and was disappointed to find that they were less recent than he had hoped. —  The Triumph Of Night 1916
• Maybe he was catched, and, tied neck and heels, hurried back to Penicuik as fast as he left it; or maybe--as one of the Fisherrow oyster-boats was amissing next morning--he succeeded in giving our brave fleets the slip, and rowing night and day against wind and tide, got home in a safe skin: but this is all matter of surmise--nobody kens On making search in the coal-house at our leisure afterwards, we found a boxful of things with black dots on them, some with one, some with two, and four, and six, and so on, for playing at an outlandish game they call the dominoes. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• Among the dominoes were the Duke and Duchess of Grafton, etc." Lady Caroline Lamb was among the guests 224] {178}[The reference is, probably, to the Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics (1809-1829), which was illustrated by coloured plates of dresses, "artistic" furniture, Gothic cottages, park lodges, etc 225] [For "Ridotto," see Letter to Moore, January 28, 1817, Letters, 1900, iv. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

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