whist

• In the past, such games as faro, whist, and euchre were more popular.
• It is called Photograph whist, and is played by four. —  Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."
• It charmed Jane and Lucy and they glanced at each other with wondering pleasure and delight After the songs some of the elder guests sat down to a game of whist, the younger ones danced Money Musk, Squire Beverly and Mrs. Stephen Hatton leading, while Harry played the old country dance with a snap and movement that made hearts bound and feet forget that age or rheumatism were in existence At eleven o'clock the party dispersed and the great dinner was over. —  The Measure of a Man
• "All my life I have made the greatest blunders whenever I play whist, and the worst of it is, I do not improve." —  The Waif of the "Cynthia"
• The games of whist were therefore not very lively, and the long strolls that the three friends took were not very gay Their principal occupation was to watch the erection of the mausoleum which they were building for poor Captain Marsilas, whose funeral obsequies had been attended by the entire population of L'Orient The sight of this funeral monument was not calculated to raise the spirits of the survivors of the "Alaska But when they joined Erik again their hopes revived. —  The Waif of the "Cynthia"

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