“Really … because I’m what one might call a cribbage master,” Ben said. From Wordnik.com. [Elixir] Reference
He loved fishing, camping and playing card games such as cribbage and Texas hold 'em, she said. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
Nights with my boys again, cribbage and lots of food. From Wordnik.com. [motivate-me1 Diary Entry] Reference
There were no rockers, just a table and a cribbage board. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Goin 'to movies on the weekend and playing cribbage all day. From Wordnik.com. [Farmer in Florida] Reference
The game of cribbage was over, and conversation began again. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
That evening she did not merely consent to play cribbage with. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
“You tell the jigger-dubber!” answered the cribbage player. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
I've seen cribbage tournaments with more excitement than NASCAR. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
"She didn't know cribbage, but she picked it up really quickly.". From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
He and I played cribbage once in a while, and chess a few times. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Can Be Fun]
And they played many hundred thousand games of cribbage together. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
Charis was playing cards — cribbage — with Alan in the great room. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
After losing nine straight games of cribbage, I quit, and got to my feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Risk Profession] Reference
“Have you finished your cribbage?” she asked, with hasty evasion of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
Have we not played cribbage with "the Marchioness," and quaffed the rosy with. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Some of his men slept, some clenched muskets, others played cribbage or dice. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
In the evening he came in again to have a game of cribbage with Mrs. Caldwell. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
It taught her that chess was wrong, but that whist and cribbage did not matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
“With bunks and little curtains, and a cribbage board and a paraffin heater.”. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
"No, thanks, not up to cribbage to-night," he replied, shaking his head and chuckling. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
After tea we had a cribbage-table, and he and I won two rubbers of his brother and Mrs. Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Then Maggie said, "Let us seek a shady place a short distance away and I'll play ye at cribbage.". From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Then they began their inevitable game of cribbage, while I sat near the fire with Baby on my lap. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
I mean, Lou, these guys are sitting there playing cribbage with terrorists for the past 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2006] Reference
I could go back to the warm lodge, enjoy a hot dinner of beef stew, and play a few games of cribbage. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
She had spoken one evening of a game of cards, saying that a game of cribbage would have consoled her. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
In a corner near a side door, two codgers in rocking chairs played cribbage by the crackling fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Or, if need be, they played at cards, always the same old games — cribbage, ecarte, or double-dummy whist. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
Saying "You play the cribbage and I'll stick the pegs" cho: Singing blow the wind westerly, let the wind blow. From Wordnik.com. [Blow the Wind Westerly] Reference
In the lower window are seen two bagmen playing apparently at the game of cribbage, over which they yawn much. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Flat cribbage-boards can be bought at a very low price, and folding ones which hold the cards are not expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
For the better preservation of his cheerfulness, therefore, he accustomed himself to play at cribbage with a dummy. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Girls from Dickens] Reference
Too busy playing cribbage in the kitchen, amidst the smells of bacon and eggs cooking, along with sausage and coffee. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
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