Now you see why we haven't any time for card-playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

And my mother's card-playing lady friends all adored me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liquor and Older Women] Reference

Beyond these are revellers, a dissolute band, card-playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

His old card-playing buddy Buffett replaces him at number one.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We'll Miss About Bill Gates — a Very Long Good-Bye] Reference

It is a violation of etiquette to propose card-playing in another person's house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

My father didn't believe in card-playing at all, and he didn't believe in dancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels, March 9-11, 1977. Interview A-0313. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Are such popular amusements as dancing and card-playing harmful in their influence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference

Archie was asked to join, but he told them he didn't know anything about card-playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

The custom of card-playing has led to the gaming-table, and been the ruin of thousands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland] Reference

A hunting and card-playing clergyman ought to be stripped of his gown without hesitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

Her son, she learned, had been discharged for card-playing and frequenting the pool room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Years with the Outcast] Reference

We had some good music, and there was a great deal of dancing, and not a little card-playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

A prohibitory statute of Henry VII. 's reign, forbade card-playing save during the Christmas holidays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Helm was not a good business man, unless we call horse-racing, fox-hunting, and card-playing, business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference

Sunday was a day set apart for hunting, fishing, horse-racing, card-playing, dancing and other amusements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

In an age of media-savvy, blow-dried pretty boys, he was a cigar-smoking, card-playing, backroom kind of guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hurrah For Tip O'neill, 1912-1994] Reference

When the weather is fine I go out; then the card-playing takes place in my aunts 'apartments instead of mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

"Ella's granddaughter," she had said without a moment's hesitation, speaking of one of her card-playing cronies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ungrateful Governess]

He says the fascination is so great as to draw the attention of these rough miners even from their card-playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference

"One more trial," said George to himself, "and nobody will catch me card-playing for money again with strangers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City] Reference

'Netta, I think you must use your influence to keep Howel from so much horse-racing and betting and card-playing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

Government officials very few have any such taste, but find their only amusements in card-playing and dissipation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

We are part of a new card-playing doggie group that will pose for the new image - "Texas Hold 'Em, Little Doggies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Famous] Reference

It is under such circumstances as these that young men and young women receive their first lessons in card-playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

Moreover, his easy-going ways -- even his punch-drinking and his card-playing -- made him a desirable husband at that time of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

At the scaffold he is said to have advised all young men to take warning from him and avoid card-playing and whiskey-drinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Harty] Reference

In a card-playing analogy, the Dems called and raised the Repubs bet, and in turn the Repubs fell for the Dems bluff and folded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprise! Congress Listened to the Voting Public!] Reference

HUNTER-GAULT: But this group of more than a dozen, card-playing black students are all for … Unidentified Woman #1: Jacob Zuma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Apartheid Generation Looks Beyond ANC] Reference

On these and card-playing he spent more money than he could afford, but in 1793, at his father's death, he received an ample fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

A passion for card-playing is called forth, developed, and must be satisfied, even though it takes one in low places among vile associates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference