gambling-houses

And he saw, further, the gambling-houses, banks, stock-exchanges, and all the gear and chips and markers, the chances and opportunities, of a vastly bigger gambling game than any he had ever seen.

Chapter VIII 2010

Lady Clavering was in such a good humour, that Sir Francis even benefited by it, and such a reconciliation was effected between this pair, that Sir Francis came to London, sate at the head of his own table once more, and appeared tolerably flush of money at his billiard-rooms and gambling-houses again.

The History of Pendennis 2006

He frequents low gambling-houses and billiard-hells, sir — he haunts third-rate clubs — I know he does.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Report at the time was brought home that the soidisant Talbot, fighting his battles under the name of Chichester, had been seen and noted in the gambling-houses of Paris; that he had been forcibly extruded from some such chamber for non-payment of a gambling debt; that he had made one in a violent fracas which had subsequently taken place in the French streets; and that his body had afterwards been identified in the Morgue.

Castle Richmond 2004

The gambling-houses will give you any odds you like, and laugh as they take your money.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

It is in truth the most disreputable district of the City of Elua, a warren of taverns and inns and gambling-houses at the base of Mont Nuit, the hill on which the Thirteen Houses of the Night Court are located.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Thus (it may be said) though the statutes respecting unlawful games are utterly indefensible — though all persons should be free to gamble in their own or each other's houses, or in any place of meeting established by their own subscriptions, and open only to the members and their visitors — yet public gambling-houses should not be permitted.

On Liberty 2002

Preachers and professors forgot their creeds and took to trade, and even to keeping gambling-houses.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

Preachers and professors forgot their creeds and took to trade, and even to keeping gambling-houses.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

Rouge-et-Noir was the fashionable game of the day, and Pall-Mall and St. James-street swarmed with gambling-houses.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various