euchre

• The game they played was euchre, where bowers are supreme, and what Harte wrote was “jacks,” not “packs.” Probably the same pious proofreader who was shocked at the “Luck” did not know the game, and, as the rhyme was perfect, let it slip. —  A Backward Glance at Eighty
• One is euchre, the other is poker I see there is a difference; but wouldn't the plate have bought a few dinners Yes, but if I had not won it some one else would. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)
• A few were whittling--a few pitching quoits, or playing leap-frog, and quite a number were having a quiet game of whist, euchre or "seven-up The speaker was a well-dressed, gentlemanly-looking man and a tolerably good orator. —  Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
• Then the guard plays euchre, reads, reads aloud, sings, fences, and drills. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Maroney would take an occasional hand at euchre, but never played for large stakes. —  The Expressman and the Detective

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