gambling-hells

Raiding of gambling-hells was common after the Police Act of 1839, which permitted forced entry.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

Let him go back into the great city, with its stifling gambling-hells, its negro-pens, its foul cellars.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

But when a man has for years lived the free life, sailed out from Jamaica a pauper, to return in six weeks or less with, perhaps, a bag of gold worth two, three, or four thousand pounds, which he has prided himself on spending in the taverns and gambling-hells of Port Royal in a week, how can he settle down to humdrum uneventful toil, with its small profits?

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

Notorious gambling-hells "ran wide open" after handing the required sum to the high police official who extorted it.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

In time when the dance-halls grew quiet as he entered and the gambling-hells suspended their games.

The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

And many of these transient visitors wanted to have their fling at the gambling-hells and dancing-halls.

The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

Only the saloons and dance-halls and gambling-hells were active, and even here the difference was manifest.

The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

He used her as a lure to draw men to his gambling-hells -- as he uses me now ...

The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

I visited Chinese and Mexican gambling-hells, German secret societies, sailors 'boarding-houses, and "dives" of every complexion of the disreputable and dangerous.

The Wrecker 1898

The women I knew were Indian squaws, and the girls of the sailors 'dance-houses and the gambling-hells of Sioux City and Abilene, and Callao and Port Saíd.

Soldiers of Fortune 1897