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  • The third night of play, as Smoke laid his first bet, the game-keeper shoved fifteen dollars back to him.

    SHORTY DREAMS 2010

  • The game-keeper had just sent the little ivory ball whirling around the smooth rim above the revolving, many-slotted wheel.

    SHORTY DREAMS 2010

  • It reminds me of my rural childhood, when I sometimes helped a game-keeper and learned the usefulness of "a poacher turned gamekeeper", or of later urbanized years when I first heard the adage "set a thief to catch a thief".

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  • It reminds me of my rural childhood, when I sometimes helped a game-keeper and learned the usefulness of "a poacher turned gamekeeper", or of later urbanized years when I first heard the adage "set a thief to catch a thief".

    David Tereshchuk: Cyber Threats -- and Remedies -- Get Overdue Airing David Tereshchuk 2012

  • The ball came to rest, and the game-keeper announced, "Thirty-four wins!"

    SHORTY DREAMS 2010

  • In the lull at the end of a deal, while the game-keeper was shuffling the deck, Nick Inwood the owner of the game, remarked, apropos of nothing: -

    THE FAITH OF MEN 2010

  • The game-keeper returned Shorty the gold sack he had deposited as a credential for playing, and with it went

    SHORTY DREAMS 2010

  • When he finished his tour, he was installed as the game-keeper in the local zoo.

    Peace-keeping (Valentine's Day Massacre Theme) 2010

  • One was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was William Crowder, a game-keeper in the em - ploy of Mr. Turner.

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  • On my way I saw William Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father.

    Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010

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