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  • They listened to her very good-naturedly; though, to tell the truth, all three were somewhat jaded, having sat up all night at the card-tables, playing at ombre, quadrille, lasquenet, and Heaven knows what other games.

    Blue Beard. 1910

  • Surrounded by calculating business men who kept a tight grasp on their money bags, he assumed the r“le of an artist scattering money with a free hand; surrounded by small townsmen most proper in demeanour, he revealed himself as the bold lasquenet, frightening them by his cavalier manners.

    Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

  • Madame strode past the tables where they were cheating at lasquenet, trictrac, picquet, l’hombre, summa summarum, and chess.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Madame strode past the tables where they were cheating at lasquenet, trictrac, picquet, l’hombre, summa summarum, and chess.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Madame strode past the tables where they were cheating at lasquenet, trictrac, picquet, l’hombre, summa summarum, and chess.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • a hand at lasquenet in a company which included a nobleman whom for obvious reasons I will only call the Duke.

    Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "We do nothing but play lasquenet and tennis, and go to the assembly, and follow Miss Dolly into Gill's, the pastry-cook's, where she goes every morning to take a jelly.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • "We do nothing but play lasquenet and tennis, and go to the assembly, and follow Miss Dolly into Gill's, the pastry-cook's, where she goes every morning to take a jelly.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • "We do nothing but play lasquenet and tennis, and go to the assembly, and follow Miss Dolly into Gill's, the pastry-cook's, where she goes every morning to take a jelly.

    Richard Carvel — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909

  • "We do nothing but play lasquenet and tennis, and go to the assembly, and follow Miss Dolly into Gill's, the pastry-cook's, where she goes every morning to take a jelly.

    Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899

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