Noun : Hold your whist. From Dictionary.com.
It was not the best kind of whist, but they had taken some trouble to arrive at it. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Handicap] Reference
He admitted, indeed, that for the higher walks of life, such as whist and nap, he had no aptitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
T. and myself to have a game of bridge whist on board. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
After tea, three rubbers of long whist closed the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
His games are whist, progressive euchre, and sometimes poker. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Good conversation, then, is like a well-played game of whist. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
The other girls were at whist with their father and the aunt. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
She soon sat down to whist with her husband, Butera, and the old. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
It is as interesting as a game of whist, and much more profitable. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
"Well, I can make a stab at whist, but I'm no wonder," confessed Joe. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
You see they were in one room at their whist, and we were in the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
During this time the General played whist with Madame de la Roche-Jugan. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Barnabas postponed the whist-table for a full hour after the usual time. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
After supper Mademoiselle de Corandeuil proposed a game of whist to M. de. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Can your aunt neither reason, calculate nor combine anything except whist?. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Wagner, Major Wood, Captain Abbott, and others are having a game of whist. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
There wasn't any whist, and so I had to do the agreeable to the whole party. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
The foreigner slipped away as he spoke, and sat himself down beside the whist-players. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Suddenly a "Confound it, Jim, do hold your tongue!" from the whist-table caught her ear. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Many a time, when too hot for sleep, have I played whist till three o'clock in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
At length released, Lady Mary crosses to the whist-table; but the conversation has dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
The following week M. de Camors was at the club one evening, playing whist with the General. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is the combination which effects what a single whist-playing genius could not accomplish. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
While studying at home, Balzac frequently spent his evenings playing whist or Boston with her. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
He won at White's one million dollars, owing to his sobriety and knowledge of the game of whist. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
After a couple of rubbers of whist, the colonel, and most of the older officers and guests, retire. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
There is too much hard work in chess and whist and too little sociability to make them in any way desirable. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
The old lady, stretched out in her chair, had decided to be unfaithful to her whist in favor of conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Both parties soon set up a lively jabber in Sioux; but General Parker gave a sign, and all were as whist as mice. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
John Randolph spent the night before the duel in quoting poetry and playing whist while his will was being amended. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
I firmly believe they would not have looked up had Cavendish come to deliver a discourse from the platform on whist. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Counsellor Mouillard has finished his pleadings and must be sitting down to a game of whist with Counsellors Horlet and. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The band retires, whist tables are laid, brandy and water and cigars make their appearance, and the mess-room is soon in a cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
I had been at Mrs. Palmer's playing whist during the evening, and about eleven o'clock two of the ladies came down to the house with me. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Baccarat, roulette, piquet, even whist, -- Ivan won at them all, till one drawer in his escritoire was stuffed full of lightly won notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
He uses them as places in which to play poker or whist, to dine his men friends, and in a great measure because it is the "proper thing.". From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
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