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Common terms and phrasesAce of Clubs Ace of Spades Advantage Adver Adversary's Ball Basto Beafted Beasted best Cards best Trump better Card Black Ace Board Cafe Cards dealt Chance Cinque Cock Codille Deal Dealer defend the Stake Dice discard Doublets Duce Eight Eldest Hand equal Bett five Tricks four Tricks gain Gamesters give Gleek happen hath Hazard Hearts hinder hold the Ace Honour Horse Knave laid last Player Laws of Quadrille lead liary likewise lose loseth Manille Manner Matadores name the Trump Nine Number obliged to play observe odd Trick Ombre Pack paid Pair-Royal Partner pass Pawns Person Piece play the King play Trumps plays Sans-prendre Point Queen Quint reckon Renounce rest round Sequents Seven shew small Card Spadille strong in Trumps strong Suit suppose Tables thing Three small Trumps three Tricks throw Tierce Trumps in Hand turned versary Vole win the Cards win the Game Popular passagesPage 78 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive queen. He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky, The walls, the woods, and long canals reply. Page 77 - Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board. As many more Manillio forc'd to yield, And march'da victor from the verdant field. Him Basto follow'd, but his fate more hard Gain'd but one trump, and one plebeian card. Page 77 - Of broken troops an easy conquest find. Clubs, diamonds, hearts, in wild disorder seen, With throngs promiscuous strow the level green. Page 77 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs... Page 76 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a matadore, Then each, according to the rank they bore ; For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Page 327 - Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one; Contracting, like a dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk, having lost his eyes, Fights only guided by antipathies: With him (alas !) the proverb holds not true, The blows his eyes ne'er saw, his heart must rue. Page 77 - In fhow like leaders of the fwarthy Moors. Spadillio firft, unconquerable Lord! Led off two captive trumps, and fwept the board. As many more Manillio forc'd to yield, Andmarch'da victor from the verdant field. Page 77 - His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace; Th... Page 78 - And wins (oh, fhameful chance !) the Queen of Hearts. At this the blood the virgin's cheek forfook, A livid palenefs fpreads o'er all her look ; She fees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Juft in the jaws of ruin and codille. Page 1 - Ombre, or The Man. It was so named as requiring thought and reflection, which are qualities peculiar to man, or rather alluding to him who undertakes to play the game against the rest of the gamesters, and is called the man. To play it well requires a great deal of application, and let a man be ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if he think of anything else, or is disturbed by the conversation of them that look on. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarThe Role of Roguery in the History of ProbabilityDavid Bellhouse - 1993 - Statistical Science The Role of Roguery in the History of ProbabilityDavid Bellhouse - 1993 - Statistical Science References from web pagesJSTOR: The Role of Roguery in the History of Probability Bibliographic information
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