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Card-playing to this extent is now, no doubt, a thing of the past, at any rate amongst the nations of northern
The Wisdom of Life 2004
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Card-playing is, in fact, a mere tickling of the will. 20 20
The Wisdom of Life 2004
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Card-playing and wine-drinking were kept up all night long.
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Card-playing, gambling, is only the natural result of these other evils, that is, they tend that way, they go with it and it goes with them.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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Card-playing is constantly carried on in those larger temples in which there is a space in front of the idol, and evidently nobody objects.
India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin
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Card-playing, too, was justifiable at Christ-tide.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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And this is in like manner imitated by many great Ladies, who are often so cruelly addicted to Card-playing, that they somtimes value not, in one evening, the losing of very great sums, and yet know how to maintain their respects therein very prudently and gallantly; but in the mean while let the Millaner,
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Card-playing for amusement or for money will create a passion that must be satisfied, although one must give up home and business and pleasure.
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Card-playing is very thirsty, and the boys were anxious to keep out the wet; so that long before the pig's head was decided, a messenger had been dispatched several times to Killarney, a distance of four
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. Various
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Card-playing men did not glance up as the village flashed by.
Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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