So qualified, to say nothing of his gifts in tea-drinking, cassino, and quadrille (whist was too many for him), his popularity could not be questioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number] Reference
I hope that another venture for a cassino is put on the next ballot and the next etc until it finally passes. From Wordnik.com. [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference
Alas! one fatal night, prudence slumbered; she rose from the cassino table pennyless, and six hundred pounds in debt. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Mystery] Reference
Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss De Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her party. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Lady Caroline kept musing on pic repic and capot, the four honours, the grand decided cassino, at one deal! the subtle and quickly-gained reservé, and all the delightful visions of a run of luck at the gaming-table!. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference
After some time spent in saying little or doing less, Lady Middleton sat down to cassino; and as Marianne was not in spirits for moving about, she and Elinor luckily succeeding to chairs, placed themselves at no great distance from the table. From Wordnik.com. [Sense and Sensibility] Reference
Of the landlady who lived in the basement, and asked them all down, now and then, to play a game of cassino or double cribbage, and eat a Welsh rabbit: of things outside that younger people did, -- the girls at the warerooms and their friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Girls] Reference
August 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pm cassino says. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Powell: ‘Staying the Course Isn’t Good Enough Because a Course Has to Have an End’] Reference
A cassino in Macau was also on the list. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
I think we had best play old sledge or cassino. ". From Wordnik.com. [Blix] Reference
In the United States today, most people have at least heard of canasta, a Latin American invention, and also have heard of poker, rummy, bridge, gin, blackjack, war, go, cassino, keno, pinochle, and old maid. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He then declares that, after mature deliberation, “cassiamo, discacciamo, e togliamo” from the list of chappellary singers these three, and that they ought to be “cassati, discacciati, e tolti dalla cappella,” and that after the present order they “cassino, discaccino. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians]
Lady Caroline, Frederic Harrington, Sir Charles Sefton, and Lady Isabella (who hated whist, but yet would play to oblige him), made up a whist party; but as it was impossible to secure the attention of the volatite lady to so serious a game, they changed it to a cassino: she lost there immensely, threw up her cards, and challenged Edward Marsham, who had just finished a game at piquet with Mrs. Kennedy, to a game at chess, which he gladly accepted; while Mrs. Kennedy took the seat of Lady Isabella, and the cassino was again changed to whist. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference
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