And oftener than before he had his trap hitched up and drove down into Weimar; or else he went shooting over his own ground, or to Sperber's to play bulldog with the old man and any one who happened in, or bezique with the pastor.
So he held the old sinner's hand, with whom he had played so many games of bezique and had so many good drinks, while the poor foolish soul in mortal agony fluttered over the threshold of the door that leads from life to death.
Bevis did not care to write up his journal, so at last they fell back on their cards and played bezique on the bed.
They played two games at bezique under the awning, and drank the last drop of sherry mixed with water.
In the case supposed, it would be the policy of the opponent, knowing or suspecting that Double Beziquewas aimed at, to keep the queen of spades in his hand as long as he possibly could, even at some considerable sacrifice.
After scoring Bezique, the declared cards should still be retained until it becomes clear that Double Bezique is unattainable.
Rubicon Bezique is played with four packs of thirty-two cards, shuffled together.
On ordinary occasions she proposed a game of bezique to her old friend; on others she would read the Figaro, in which the theatrical echoes and the fashionable news interested her.
The count put up with the stupidity of Mme Maloir, playing bezique with her in spite of her musty smell.
Just imagine, at night when he was going to bed he hid his gold in his boots, and when we played at bezique he used beans, because one day I pounced down on the stakes for fun.
I--I'm going to play a game of bezique with Madame Maloir.
He said: 'I am going to play a game of bezique with you this evening.
I remember now that it's Monsieur Monleard whom I have seen play bezique for five hundred francs a game.
That is very good of you; in return, we will have a game of bezique for your benefit.
A game of bezique succeeded Craddock's stroll with Joyce and a cigarette with a whisky and soda consoled him for the withdrawal of the ladies.
The most I shall ask of you is that you play bezique with my father by and by.
Thus with four kings declared, including the king of spades, bezique can be declared and scored, but the spade marriage cannot be scored till the holder wins another trick.
All may be declared together, or a double bezique may be added to a single one, or a third bezique may be added to a double bezique already declared.
A second double bezique or triple bezique may be scored as before; to form them the beziques may be declared from the hand of either partner.
To score all the combinations with these cards, after the knaves are declared and another trick won, bezique must next be made, after which, on winning another trick, the three queens can be added and four queens scored.
The scores are shown as follows:-- Table of Bezique Scores.
As four packs are used, triple and quadruple bezique may be made.
If double bezique has been scored, and one pair has been played, a second double bezique may be made with the third pair and the pair on the table.
All the cards of the triple bezique must be on the table at the same time and unplayed to a trick.
In addition to the ordinary bezique declarations, sequence, counting 150, can be made in plain suits.
A variation provides that when the trump is either spades or diamonds, Bezique may be queen of clubs and knave of hearts.
Four-handed Beziquemay be played by partners decided either by choice or cutting.
And after dinner I shall play bezique with my employer; only I must take care not to beat her, because she doesn't like being beaten.
And the incident had ended, as always, with a few angry tears on Nora's part, as a preliminary to the inevitable game of bezique which finished off each happy day!
It was she who in the last years of the Second Empire had taught him bezique in all its varieties--Japanese, Chinese, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bezique" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
