gaming-table

They had invented a system, and brought it to the gaming-table of life, and expected to win out.

WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

James sees the wager for what it is, of course: the logic of "the gaming-table", as he describes it.

William James, part 7: Agnosticism and the will to believe Mark Vernon 2010

After all, this narrowness, though a more ordinary modification of the spirit of avarice, may be founded on the same desire of acquisition, which in his earlier days sent him to the gaming-table.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

It might almost as well be asked whether a gambler, who has been driven away from the gaming-table, is still one of the players at that table.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Indeed, every face seemed to dilate with relief when his morose and crabbed countenance was no longer to be seen under the circle of light which a shaded lamp casts on a gaming-table.

Domestic Peace 2007

The friends dismissed their cab and went up to the gaming-table.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

He had confessed to his loss at the gaming-table; and now he was going to hang himself.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Sometimes, in the still nights, he would wake, and mourn for the many nights that had stolen past him at the gaming-table; sometimes, would seem to hear, upon the melancholy wind, the old songs of the minstrels; sometimes, would dream, in his blindness, of the light and glitter of the Norman Court.

A Child's History of England 2007

I know the name of every man who has been out on an affair of honour within the last five-and-twenty years; I know the private particulars of every cross and squabble that has taken place upon the turf, at the gaming-table, or elsewhere, during the whole of that time.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

Indeed, every face seemed to dilate with relief when his morose and crabbed countenance was no longer to be seen under the circle of light which a shaded lamp casts on a gaming-table.

Domestic Peace 2007