Whist, Or, Bumblepuppy?: Ten Lectures Addressed to ChildrenRoberts Bros., 1883 - 89 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
50 cents absurd adversaries amusement Art of Practical bad hand best trump bumblepuppy Cavendish Clay deceive your partner DOUBLE DUMMY endeavor false cards finesse five trumps force your partner forced discard four FOURTH HAND high card holding ace honor Hudibras intelligent last trick laws of whist Lead a singleton lead the lowest lead trumps LECTURE London Field long cards long suit look lose the game MATHEWS maxims misdeal mistake never note to Law odd trick once opponents original lead partner's king plain suit play the queen play whist Practical Whist principle reason remaining cards ruff ruffed save or win save the game score SHAKSPEARE short suit signal small trump spade strength in trumps strong suit strong trump thing trump hand weak in trumps weak suit Westminster Papers whist-player win the game win the trick winning cards
Pasajes populares
Página 78 - Weak is the effort of my heart, And cold my warmest thought ; But when I see thee as thou art, I'll praise thee as I ought.
Página 20 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, "See, this is new?" it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Página 40 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Página 66 - A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick...
Página 37 - If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,' the Walrus said, 'That they could get it clear?
Página 54 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Página 65 - O dreary life!' And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds Serenely live while we are keeping strife With Heaven's true purpose in us, as a knife Against which we may struggle! Ocean girds Unslackened the dry land, savannah-swards...
Página 61 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Página 59 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well : — and the thing that he " does" especially well is the public.
Página 64 - Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise : and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.