That lady had as keen a scent for money as Kit herself, and evidently if Kit denied herself the pleasure of causing a scandal over this cheating at baccarat (a piquant subject), she must have a strong reason for doing so.
Let's see, baccarat is the game where you have to try and get nine, isn't it?
In any case, the last thing we want is a scandal, for it never looks well to see in the papers that the 'Marchioness of Conybeare, while entertaining a large baccarat party last night, detected one of her guests cheating.
Death and baccarat are great levellers, and Kit in her more sententious moments used to call the latter an escape from the trammels of civilization, and a return to the natural savage instincts.
Before long a baccarat table was made up, but he did not move from his place by the piano.
It even gave him a little pleasure to see her flounder in so stranded a fashion, for he had not effaced, and did not mean to efface, from his mind the very shabby thing she had chosen to do to him on the night of the baccarat affair.
He was slow at cards, displayed an inordinate greed for his stake, and had been known at baccarat to consider whether he should have another.
Now, I ask you, the few times we have played baccarat together, did you ever see me fail to stake?
The tiresome baccarat incident had now been unanswered rather more than a fortnight, during which interval Kit had not seen Mr. Alington.
The thing had gone wrong; she had meant to have got first innings on the subject of baccarat cheating, and she was rather afraid she was clean bowled.
The headquarters of the 37th Division were at Baccarat on the Alsatian border.
Military trains were placed on the sidings in the railway yards at Baccarat to be loaded with men, horses, and equipment.
Later, when I was in the Baccarat sector, I met a most interesting and effective man who was in the Supply Department of the "Y" on week days, and conducted services in outlying camps every Sunday morning with great success.
For two nights steady streams of French troops, ammunition wagons, guns, and army trucks had poured into Baccarat on their way to relieve the various units of the Ohio Division.
It was a splendidly camouflaged camionette that I inherited from Hughes when I went to Baccarat on the Alsatian border.
The other was at Baccarat near the Alsatian border.
I find that he refers, in passing, to that dramatic moment when we stood on a hilltop and watched the bombing of Baccarat just below us, while the Boche machine passed very close overhead.
Many Chinese troops in French uniforms passed through Baccarat the next day.
Sometimes he playedbaccarat and won; oftener he played baccarat and lost.
For pastime she played baccarat at Curzon Street and lost six hundred pounds.
It was that evening you played baccarat at Curzon Street--about ten days ago.
Paris gave him the title of Le Roi Baccarat, and in the morning papers the latest doings of the baccarat king were as much a matter of course as the stock market reports.
The fashionables of Nice choose the baccarat club-rooms for their rendezvous, and it is there that you must go to see modish women and well-known men gossiping, flirting, and playing high.
Baccarat was the game, and the New Yorker's luck held.
One day the baccarat king began to lose, and he was as persistent in losing as he had been in winning.
And did you not play baccarat at Wilson's, and lose eighteen hundred francs?
Now, you gamble yourself, and know how much money can be squandered in one night; the losses ofbaccarat must be paid within twenty-four hours.
Now my testimony as a youngster would go a very little way, if unsupported against his; but if you will give me a solemn promise that you will never play baccarat again, I will get two or three fellows to watch him.
At Baccarat you will know what cards you have given the players, and what you will draw if you take one.
We will suppose that the field of action is the card-room of some small club, where baccarat is played clandestinely, and for heavy stakes.
At baccaratcollusion and conspiracy are generally used for the purpose of 'rooking' some particular individual of the pronounced 'Juggins' type, and the plan of operation is somewhat as follows.
It was worked with the assistance of a confederate, and baccarat was the game principally favoured.
A game of baccarat followed, and a friend of mine was fortunate enough to win some hundreds from our host.
He had stood by the young man the night before at baccaratand seen him lose enough to keep a little family of Trouville fisherfolk for a year.
I lost at baccaratlast night, and I haven't a sou for the race.
There was a mixture of amusement and reproach in Bulstrode's tone--"and you have found nothing better to do than to throw away at baccarat what money you had, and have found no other solution for the future than to.
Hence the most regrettable feature in the famous Baccarat case of 1890 which was, for a time, one of the most talked-of and preached-at incidents in modern social life.
When each day's racing was over and the company had returned to Tranby Croft and finished dinner, Baccarat was introduced as the amusement of the evening and played for a couple of hours.
I prefer some place that has to resort to art, too, and make itself up a little with gorgeous hotels, casinos, theatres, and baccarat tables.
I The Baccarat Table in the Villa des Fleurs, Aix-les-Bains.
The baccarat rooms of the International Club were deserted, and it was the same with all other amusements and recreations.
Even the week you've been in the Shires you haven't trained a bit; you've been waltzing or playing baccarat till five in the morning, and taking no end of sodas after to bring you right for the meet at nine.
And that night we played baccarat by his bedside to amuse him; and he played just as well as ever.
I did but say, again indulgently, that I supposed baccarat to be as good a way of wasting time as another.
I was thinking of--oh, lots of things; baccarat included, yes.
Baccarat and chemin de fer, the Vanity and the Orient, smart little dances and rowdy little suppers, Mrs. Foster-ffrench and the Hon.
The mistake I made was playing baccarat with my ready cash.
A couple of weeks at Monte Carlo, a week at Sorrento, and a fortnight at Rome, in which to win the Titian from the Marchese degli Abbraccioli, by baccarat if possible, or by banknotes should fortune prove unkind.
It had been an inspiration, this proposal of Monsieur Michel's to settle his claim upon the Marchese for his overwhelming losses at baccarat by taking over one of the two Titians which flanked the chimney-piece in his study.
I sat down at a baccarat table which had just been made up.
I had no means of knowing that, for the very simple reason that I myself have not put my foot inside that door since--yes, since the night we played baccarat together, against Madame Dauberny.
His attitude in this baccarataffair has been strictly honourable, although open to criticism.
Baccarat is never played at Sandringham, and the smoking-room cohort breaks up early.
We remained thus aloof from the crowd who were intent on the calculation at the baccarat table.
He had played baccarat in all the clubs of Europe, and had never received such treatment.
I compromised with a smile on the last alternative, and baccarat being a dreary game to watch, I strolled off to the nearest ecarte table, and, to justify my presence in the room, backed one of the players.
Some thirty men were sitting or standing around a baccarat table in the centre, and two or three groups hung around ecarte tables in the corners.
Presently my attention was called to the baccarattable by a noise as of some dispute, and turning, I saw the gentleman in the dinner-jacket hurrying to what appeared to be the storm centre, the place where Anastasius was sitting.
Then spying a vacant place behind the chairs at the baccarat table, he darted thither, and I followed in his wake.
He had never gambled, and hardly knew one card from another, but baccarat can be learned with such facility that after two deals a raw recruit can argue with a veteran as to whether it is better to stand on five or to draw.
An hour later Mr. Incoul was watching a game of baccarat at the Cercle des Capucines.
Baccarat for that night, at least, had lost its allurement.
Were the gambling laws less drastic in this country, I can easily conceive that a fortune might be made by the proprietor of a roulette and baccarat club.
He had previously run the concern as a baccarat club, its useful career in that direction having ended in a raid, and a prosecution of the greatest number of persons ever called up at Bow Street to answer a single charge.
He did not need the excitement of baccarat nor the stimulus of brandy and soda, for his brain was already both excited and stimulated, though he was not at once aware of it.
But he vowed a bitter revenge and swore to dance till three in the morning at the Montevarchi's and finish the night with a rousing baccarat at the club, which projects he began to put into execution as soon as was practicable.
When you have paid the stamp duties, you may go to the club and lose the balance of your capital at baccarat if you please.
This question always divides baccarat players into two camps.
After wandering about the room for a few minutes, and watching the chemin de fer, they found a baccarat table in the opposite corner.
We have all seen the sweet English chatelaine at her roulette wheel, and ere long it may be that tender parents will be writing to complain of the compulsory baccarat in our public schools.
Baccarat may rival dead faro in the tale of her devotees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baccarat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blackjack; bridge; game
