She learned without difficulty to play at backgammon while in this state, and would generally beat her antagonist, though in her normal state she knew nothing about the game.
He pulled out a whisky bottle and backgammon board, but I could not face it.
The playing atbackgammon and draughts had been a frequent amusement of Mr. Whackbairn, Butler's principal, when at Liberton school.
Peter played backgammon with her on the front steps, and later on--chess.
Mamma wants a daughter, and papa wants a reader and a backgammon prayer.
But pardon me, you seem quite to have forgotten that reading to the old general, and playing backgammon with him, are among your specified employments.
The records of this period are few and scanty, but they are full enough to show that some of the clergy of the Athols knew more of backgammon than of theology.
I have said what true work for religion Nonconformity must have done in those evil days when the clergy of the Athols were more busy with backgammon than with theology.
There will be no more need for you to pursue Count Simon, my dear, or for Messer Lorenzo to play backgammon with the French cardinal.
How badly, I wonder, did you have to play at backgammon to keep de Verceuil occupied all this time?
She had got the habit of playing backgammon with Willie, after he became too weak for more active occupations, and they had kept the score in a little green blank-book.
But for her backgammon it would be difficult to imagine what Mrs. Tarbell would have done with her evenings, for her eyes were not strong enough for reading or sewing.
So what with working and housekeeping, and lessons to Charley, and backgammon in the evening with my guardian, and duets with Ada, the three weeks slipped fast away.
We are doing it to take the conceit out of a young man we know, who declares that there's nothing in backgammon that he didn't learn the first time he played it with his grandfather.
I want something for a booby prize for a backgammon tournament.
I don't suppose anybody ever heard of a backgammon tournament before, but it's going to be great fun.
The other men looked on, Pen, of course, among the number, who had never used the dice as yet, except to play a humdrum game of backgammon at home.
A dinner with Doctor Portman or a neighbouring Squire now and then; a dreary rubber at backgammon with the widow, who did her utmost to amuse him; these were the chief of his pleasures.
Our evenings were spent playing cards or backgammon or listening to the chatter of our host by the fireside.
We played backgammon and Old Maid and Everlasting until Mr. Hacket returned.
Morris finished his cigarette and went back to the drawing-room where Mr. Taynton was already engaged in the staid excitements of backgammon with his mother.
A kind of backgammonplayed both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men.
The recreations suited to a prince, were to sit in a cloud of tobacco smoke, to sip Swedish beer between the puffs of the pipe, to play backgammon for three halfpence a rubber, to kill wild hogs, and to shoot partridges by the thousand.
He shirked the duties of the parade; he detested the fume of tobacco; he had no taste either for backgammon or for field sports.
I spent an evening at the house nearly two weeks ago, and played backgammon with her.
Then I'll get thebackgammon board, and we'll have a game.
Backgammon is said to have been invented in the tenth century.
The games of chess and backgammon were both known, or at least games very similar to them.
The recreations suited to a prince were to sit in a cloud of tobacco smoke, to sip Swedish beer between the puffs of the pipe, to play backgammon for three half-pence a rubber, to kill wild hogs, and to shoot partridges by the thousand.
I do not think,” says one of them, “that honest Martin Luther committed sin by playing at backgammon for an hour or two after dinner, in order by unbending his mind to promote digestion.
The Colonel had made a backgammon board, and we used to sit in his tent and play a good deal of the time.
She makes more blunders at piquet and backgammon than you would expect from her; and the servants find her awake and dressed, however early they may rise.
He sometimes played backgammon with his mother, or took dinner with Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backgammon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
