faro

• As to which, you know Well, I've had my share of experience with them," I answered, "though not so much in the line of rob-or, as we planned, but more as rob-ee Jim looked at me quizzically Board of Trade, faro, or ... —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
• Soon, however, the Doctor's shingle was again hung out Quickly buildings went up, and the little lady with golden curls to her waist went about, jostling the motley crowd of people, and finding concern in the active city front, in the gaudy shops, and in the open faro-banks with their exposed piles of nuggets and bags of gold-dust freshly dug from the earth There was the ever-beckoning to the hills of treasure, with their extravagant stories of adventure, but the professional man was anchored in the more prosy city, and buckled down to a commonplace existence. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• Of course, poker and euchre, whist and ninepins, to say nothing of monte and faro, are now in constant requisition. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• On the morning of the 6th, the military corps, followed by a file of several hundred citizens, marched to each suspected house, and sending in an examining committee, dragged out every faro-table and other gambling apparatus that could be found. —  Diary in America, Series One
• The whole procession then returned to the city, collected all the faro-tables into a pile, and burnt them. —  Diary in America, Series One

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