gamester

• They tell me he is a gamester, and wins money.—How could I help it, pray? —  The Journal to Stella
• How can the gamester, accustomed both to suffer and inflict ruin with indifference, preserve that benevolent frame of mind, which, in the ordinary and less censurable pursuits of common life, is but too prone to become impaired, and to leave humanity more a duty than a feeling? —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795
• At this juncture he won one hundred and sixty francs, which saved the violin, but the mental agony he endured through the affair convinced him that a gamester is an object of contempt to all well regulated minds. —  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
• I could use a skilled gamester, and, I promise you, I would compensate you generously. —  Gaston, Diane - The Mysterious Miss M
• For example, in the third act Shakespeare, through King Henry, expressly charges his soldiers that “there be nothing compelled from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language; for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.” Wise words, not yet learned even by statesmen; drops of wisdom's life-blood from the heart of gentle Shakespeare. —  The Man Shakespeare

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