Bless me, Hazeldean--why, they made three tricks in clubs, and you had the ace in your hand all the time!
And the squire might well be grateful, for the unfortunate adversary has led up to ace king knave, with two other trumps.
Does it need so long an exordium to excuse thee, poor Parson Dale, for turning up that ace of spades with so triumphant a smile at thy partner?
The squire, who is fourth player, drops the king to Captain Higginbotham's lead of the ace of hearts.
I'm the young feller that showed him where his ace was!
He'd find out what his particular ace was and play it to the limit every time!
Well, Hector's ace is his mad infatuation for his stomach.
Just think of it--Henry Thorne, star director of the great Ace Motion Picture Company, watching a high school play.
The Ace plant, one of the largest in Hollywood, was built in a rambling Spanish style.
The Ace publicity office just tipped us off that you were coming in this noon with a couple of girls from the midwest and that you think they're a couple of great film possibilities.
Almost every contract player on the Ace lot was in it, with a good, substantial role going to Curt Newsom, who was taken out of Billy Fenstow's western unit long enough to play the part of a bitter field manager.
Some of the most famous stars on the Ace lot were lunching there that noon and Janet and Helen enjoyed watching them come in.
Stage nine was one of the smaller sound units on the Ace lot, but the director had a camera crew, the sound men and an electrician awaiting their arrival.
Don't lead the ten of clubs by mistake for the ace of trumps and then get mad and jump seventeen feet in the air because they refuse to let you pull it back.
The Telenews ace signed off, Samms and Kinnison went to their respective offices, and Cosmocratic orators throughout the nation held a field-day.
But the Telenews ace who had once interviewed both Kinnison and Samms wasted no time upon small fry.
This was Parker of Washington, a Service ace for twenty five years.
In the circular cards described by Bartsch and Singer, the inscription on the Ace of Hares is in Latin, and the initials of the engraver, T.
As in the other pack, there is a red stamp on the Ace of Spades.
Each of the cards representing a Knave, is marked P, for Prince; and a stamp appears on the Ace of Spades.
In the superior suits, the ten follows next in value to the king and wuzeer; and the ace is the lowest card.
The Ace reminds him, amongst various other things, of the unity of the Deity; that Noah left the ark one year after the deluge; and that there is only one Catholic Church.
A red stamp on the Ace of Spades belonging to a pack which I have had an opportunity of examining, contains the words "Six pence.
Each card is neatly engraved on copper; and, from the stamp on the Ace of Spades, it appears evident that they were manufactured and sold for the purposes of play.
The five-fingers (alias five of trumps) is the best card in the pack; the ace of hearts is next to that, and the next is the ace of trumps.
In the annexed specimens, which are of the same size as the originals, the honours represented are the King of Clubs, the Queen of Hearts, the King of Diamonds, and the Ace of Spades.
He can point to the holes and say, 'Count von Herzmann, the German ace and spy, was just behind these holes.
In this case, an ace for an ace and a spy for a spy.
Wasn't that a careless thing for a great ace to do?
The presence of other planes, and his original plan, all were lost sight of in the pulse-quickening realization that he had crippled the plane of the famous ace in that first burst.
In like manner you place the seeming ace of hearts under the foot of another person.
In a common pack of cards let the ace of hearts and nine of spades be something larger than the rest.
You then take the ashes of that card, put them into a small metal box, and give it to him that has the ace of hearts, that he may himself put that card into the box and fasten it.
F, will be seen as an ace of clubs when placed in the machine, and viewed through a single plane glass only, contained in the tube E.
Z cannot afford to hold up the ace of spades, as the entire diamond suit is against him.
It is wrong to hold up an ace when one entire suit is against you.
There is little excuse for the dealer’s play of the ace of clubs at this point.
A can now count both B’s and Z’s hands; B must have four hearts and the ace of diamonds alone; Z has the remaining clubs, a diamond and two hearts.
Z has three good spades and the commanding diamond, Y the losing trump and the ace of clubs.
It would be bad play to hold up the ace of hearts.
In other words, he will lose if A has a four-or a five-card suit, and can only win if A holds a six-card suit and the ace of hearts.
The ace of hearts is now marked with B, and the Finesse Obligatory must be taken.
He cannot gain by holding up this high card unless the original leader holds a six-card spade suit as well as the ace of hearts.
How sombre-suited went the Queen of Spades, how pensive seemed her consort, while the savage Ace was hung with garlands of mourning and sable flowers of Proserpine.
The disappointment visible on her countenance recalled the incident of the Valentine, and he made haste to add: "Though now I come to think of it, I found him cutting out an ace of hearts one day last week.
Seven Diamonds, headed by Knave, Ten; Ace of Spades; Ace of Hearts; Aceand three small Clubs.
The Ace first, and then King, signifies no more of the suit, and a desire to ruff.
Should he fail to have either stopped, the Declarer's loss is so heavy that only with a long and apparently established suit and an additional Ace is the risk justified.
Instinctively I glanced at Mrs. Watkin, upon whose lips the passage of words like "as the proverbial ace of spades" was clearly to be seen.
She always said it was as black as the proverbial ace of spades.
Once I ventured to insinuate that perhaps it would be more nobly new to say "as black as the proverbial ace of proverbial spades," but the suggestion left her at peace with her custom.
Now that Ace had brought the matter to his attention he began to suspect that this had been the reason of the attack on Hollis.
He wasn't quite sure about it, he said, but if Ace could write poetry he hadn't any doubt that during the next few weeks there would be plenty of opportunity to print some of it in the Kicker.
Later he was informed that Ace had been so named on account of having once been caught slipping a playing card of that character into his bootleg during a game of poker.
It has taken you a long time to discover what Ace has apparently known for years.
Therefore Hollis was not surprised when in the afternoon he saw Ace loping his pony down the Coyote trail toward the Hazelton cabin.
The language had not been graceful, nor the diction, yet she knew that Ace had struck the mark fairly, for woman indeed needed no tutor to teach her to understand man--woman had always understood him.
For an instant it seemed that Ace would not see them, and Hollis rose from the rock on which he had been sitting and halloed to him.
Well, Ace succeeded in crowding a whole lot of truth into that effort.
That Ace was still active proved that the other man might have profited by keeping his knowledge to himself.
Thereupon Ace had importuned Norton to intercede with Hollis on his behalf.
An ace pilot, and he fought the mad actions of the plane tooth and nail.
As Dave locked looks with the famous ace he had the sudden impression that Manners was looking straight into his brain and reading all that was there.
