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Examples
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She nodded comprehension, looked for a moment with troubled eyes down the long room to the card-players, caught herself in her momentary absentness, and said quickly:
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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He stopped to talk to card-players in a social club and watched a woman buy a flounder in the market.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He stopped to talk to card-players in a social club and watched a woman buy a flounder in the market.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He stopped to talk to card-players in a social club and watched a woman buy a flounder in the market.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Old men of the world might say to him, as card-players would say to the man who declines to take advantage of his trumps, ‘Monsieur, you ought not to play at bouillotte.’
Eve and David 2007
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Old men of the world might say to him, as card-players would say to the man who declines to take advantage of his trumps, ‘Monsieur, you ought not to play at bouillotte.’
Eve and David 2007
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The card-players went to the tables, the young people danced, the supper was served, and the ball was not over till morning, when the first gleams of the coming day whitened the windows.
A Marriage Contract 2007
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And, besides the card-players, there are band-players: every now and then a fiddle from the neighboring orchestra, or a disorganized bassoon, will step down and drink a glass of the water, and jump back into his rank again.
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Where are the card-players whom we can remember in our early days?
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Whilst there were card-players enough to meet her at her lodgings and the assembly-rooms, Madame de Bernstein remained pretty contentedly at the Wells, scolding her niece, and playing her rubber.
The Virginians 2006
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