Her appearance used to create not a little excitement in the Saloon of Roulette, the game which she patronised, it being more “fertile of emotions” than the slower trente-et-quarante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Town Hall and the Redoute, and in the former place there was a room for trente-et-quarante and roulette established, for the week of the festivities only, and by one of the great German companies from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought, nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup of trente-et-quarante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Skin] Reference

Pall Mall loungers bound for Ems and Wiesbaden and a course of waters to clear off the dinners of the season, and a little roulette and trente-et-quarante to keep the excitement going; there was old Methuselah, who had married his young wife, with Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

The visitors find at its Casino all the best newspapers and magazines of civilization laid out for their amusement, to which are added an excellent theatre, an unsurpassed orchestra, and -- 'pour comble de malheur' -- open tables at which any stranger can play at roulette, or at trente-et-quarante, upon presentation of a card of address.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Page 82 trente-et-quarante room and put the maximum on three of the tables there.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Marse Henry" : an autobiography,] Reference

Benazet will not accept as a stake; if he would, there are plenty here, believe me, who would set it on the trente-et-quarante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Non-players or discouraged losers bore down upon the "architect's table," running even from the distant trente-et-quarante room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference

Besides roulette and trente-et-quarante, a number of amusing games are played at Baden, which are not performed, so to speak, sur table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Recognizing that this perhaps might be his lucky day, the player wended his way to the trente-et-quarante room and put the maximum on three of the tables there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography] Reference

Yiddish, but soon he or she, when initiated into the games of roulette and trente-et-quarante, quickly gets bitten by the fever and enters into the spirit of the discussions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

Around the tables, and at the further end of the room where the trente-et-quarante table was set out, there may have been gathered from 150 to 200 gamblers, ranged in several rows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gambler] Reference

Her appearance used to create not a little excitement in the Saloon of Roulette, the game which she patronised, it being more "fertile of emotions" than the slower trente-et-quarante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

He left the trente-et-quarante, hearing that the black had come up sixteen times at the roulette table, and was about to put five thousand francs on the red, when the black came up for the seventeenth time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Celibates] Reference

And the dear jingling diligences, with very little harness to speak of, but any quantity of old rope; and the bad wines, and the dust, and the cathedrals, and the beggars, and the trente-et-quarante tables, and in short everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference

Besides the Court balls, public balls were given at the Town Hall and the Redoute, and in the former place there was a room for trente-et-quarante and roulette established, for the week of the festivities only, and by one of the great German companies from Ems or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

Before the palace of Lenoir there is a grove of orange-trees in tubs, which Lenoir bought from another German prince; who went straightway and lost the money, which he had been paid for his wonderful orange-trees, over Lenoir's green tables, at his roulette and trente-et-quarante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

Carlo will never do that, "was the other's reply as they moved away together down the long saloon towards the trente-et-quarante room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

Lenoir bought from another German prince; who went straightway and lost the money, which he had been paid for his wonderful orange-trees, over Lenoir’s green tables, at his roulette and trente-et-quarante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference

The programme was to hear a reigning farce at Hooley’s, then to sup at the Richelieu, and finally to visit a certain exclusive gambling-parlor which then flourished on the South Side — the resort of actors, society gamblers, and the like — where roulette, trente-et-quarante, baccarat, and the honest game of poker, to say nothing of various other games of chance, could be played amid exceedingly recherche surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

Wiesbaden and a course of waters to clear off the dinners of the season, and a little roulette and trente-et-quarante to keep the excitement going; there was old Methuselah, who had married his young wife, with Captain Papillon of the Guards holding her parasol and guide-books; there was young May who was carrying off his bride on a pleasure tour (Mrs. Winter that was, and who had been at school with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

The fourth room, ornamented with panel paintings by Clairin and Boulanger, representing young lady riders, croquet-players, fencers, fishers, archers, mountaineers, shooters, and sailors, is devoted to trente-et-quarante, at which the smallest sum admitted is 20 frs., and the largest 12,000 frs. or £480.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference