When they'd finished with the lands and forests and mines, they turned back, gambling for any little stakes they'd overlooked, gambling for franchises and monopolies, using politics to protect their crooked deals and brace games.
The losers couldn't get any more stakes, while the winners went on gambling among themselves.
It's a mighty big come-down from gambling for a continent to gambling for a job."
Everybody in this country has been gambling for generations.
Yet the very fact that I was full of a strong desire to win caused this
gambling for gain, in spite of its attendant squalor, to contain, if you will, something intimate, something sympathetic, to my eyes: for it is always pleasant to see men dispensing with ceremony, and acting naturally, and in an unbuttoned mood.
The only excesses indulged in by this temperate and exemplary people, appear to be
gambling and horseracing.
An incident which happened not very long after that airy notion of getting aid from his uncle had been excluded, was a strong sign of the effect that might have followed any extant opportunity of gambling.
He was not only excited with his play, but visions were gleaming on him of going the next day to Brassing, where there was gambling on a grander scale to be had, and where, by one powerful snatch at the devil's bait, he might carry it off without the hook, and buy his rescue from his daily solicitings.
In all lands where life is a hazard lightly played with and lightly flung aside, men turn, almost automatically, to
gambling for diversion and relaxation.
Dolokhov, who needed Anatole Kuragin's name, position, and connections as a bait to draw rich young men into his
gambling set, made use of him and amused himself at his expense without letting the other feel it.
A great portion of their time is passed in revelry, music, dancing, and
gambling. Their music scarcely deserves the name; the instruments being of the rudest kind.
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Gambling," she would say, "dear, is good to help your income, but not as an income itself.
Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won more than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God knows how.
The one paid down the money and the other took it, and the latter quitted the island, while the other went home; and then the governor said, "Either I am not good for much, or I'll get rid of these gambling houses, for it strikes me they are very mischievous."
On the minor gambling houses your worship may exercise your power, and it is they that do most harm and shelter the most barefaced practices; for in the houses of lords and gentlemen of quality the notorious sharpers dare not attempt to play their tricks; and as the vice of gambling has become common, it is better that men should play in houses of repute than in some tradesman's, where they catch an unlucky fellow in the small hours of the morning and skin him alive."
