A died (one of these cards may say) and left his estate to B, his widow, naming C as executor.
Several other callers were ahead of us here, and we sat down in the outer office when we had presented our cards to a very kind and attentive young man who appeared to be in charge.
In Los Angeles (that other nation's playground of holiday makers) perhaps even more picture cardsare displayed for sale.
Such picture cards of gaiety of course may be found in windows here and there on some streets in New York and other cities.
As we gave him our cards a young man asked us if we knew "the Colonel.
On a number of the tables are cardsmarked "Reserved.
Him and me got wedding cards a week ago, so I suppose "Jonesy" and Mabel are on their honeymoon now.
We done it--I holding my hat to shut off the wind, while Jonadab used up two cards of matches getting the first light.
Allie played his cards well; he'd set into a good many similar games afore, I judge.
Salome, standing, deals the cards which the guests hand one to the other.
Formerly the cards were solely our diversion; but they have taken them away from us.
These schools were supplied with collecting cards also, together with a number of private schools and academies in Montreal and the surrounding districts.
The second step was that of forming a committee and having collectingcards printed.
In 1871 the first post cards issued by the Dominion postoffice were welcomed in the city.
A party of twenty courtiers was seated at cards round a large table on which gold was heaped in mountains.
He would play his cards out to the end, without whining, no matter how the game might go.
Nobody but a darn fool makes a gun-play when the cards are stacked that-a-way.
It might be on the cards that some day she would be more to him than a friend.
Lee was thinking that for Melissy's sake he should have made a friend of the man he hated, since it was on the cards that within a few days she might be in his power.
The coterie of gentlemen looked at one another in disconsolate uncertainty, and one turned his cards face downward and laid them resignedly on the table.
He turned up his florid face with its auburn mustachios and Burnside whiskers from its bending over the cards and showed a broad arch of glittering white teeth in an ungenial laugh.
The cards were duly dealt, the draw was on, when suddenly the door opened and old Mr. Whitmel, his favorite meerschaum in his hand and a sheaf of newly arrived journals, entered with the evident intention of a prolonged stay.
Mrs. Randolph did not see the wordless scene, as she was busy reading cards and making characteristic comments.
Derby looked perhaps a trifle chagrined at the profusion, as Nina gave a cursory glance at the cards that Celeste had affixed to each opened box.
That the invitations were merely visitingcards with "Informal Dance" written in the corner, and a date not forty-eight hours ahead, astonished her.
The Countess Kate played as placidly as though she were dealing cards for "old maid," while her husband reminded Nina of a squirrel sitting up and nibbling at a nut.
But aside from this, cards and horse races and trips to Monaco had limited their living in luxury to a periodic pleasure of three or four months.
Cards in his pocket had identified Warrington and Dr.
A door was burst in, cards and gambling paraphernalia were scattered about and hidden, men rushed to escape, and the sounds were much like those on the night of the raid.
Keno was, we soon found, a development or an outgrowth of lotto, in which cards were sold to the players, bearing numbers which were covered with buttons, as in lotto.
Cards were whisked away as if a ghost had taken them.
For the average girl the designing and making of Christmas cards and book covers, or even the prolonged study of great paintings, is a less productive use of time than the designing of cushion covers, curtains, bureau scarfs, or candle shades.
A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.
With sudden professional earnestness she ran her fingers through the catalogue cards and picked out one and slapped it down in front of Sagner.
For a moment Madge Hubert dallied to shuffle one half of her pack of cards into the other half.
I played cards with them all and can truthfully say I won most of the games played to which I refer, with the exception of those played with the 'Lone Wolf,' hanged recently, if you recall.
But at that I can fully recommend a good, sociable game of cards as the best way for a doomed man to pass the few hours before the arrival of the fatal moment.
But, as the men said they wanted to have some amusement, I went to an officer's billet and got a pack of cards for them, and they settled down to a game of poker.
The shops around the square were still carrying on their business and people there were selling post-cards and other small articles.
The party seemed very pleased with my remarks and we all exchanged visiting cards and separated good friends.
One of the men who was playing cards responded "If you will wait till we have finished this hand, Sir, we will all come too.
An hour later Mary was going through her lists of cards and addresses with the typewriter when she suddenly said: "Oh, Miss Wilson, I'm writing a sort of story.
I should like her to look like some of those little cards on cigarette boxes, or like a picture post-card, if you want to know," he admitted candidly.
I find I've been so careless and forgotten all the addresses and lost the cards of people that we used to know.
He looked at some invitation cards on the mantelpiece.
Pembroke dealt the cards about for the first round.
Such a run of cards was never seen in this room since Rigby, of the Tenth, made his great game four years ago.
Tis an hour of night when one gains an appetite for one thing or another, cards or cold joint.
Lady Catharine, if he sat not there cool as my Lord Speaker in the Parliament, and saw the cards run to trente et le va, as though 'twere no more to him than the eating of an orange!
Back to Europe, back to the gaming tables, to the wheels andcards I go again, and plunge into it madder than ever did man before.
When they saw him leaning out from his bunk Lonesome Pete put down his cards and came to him.
These were the sort of men who would want to see the other man's cards laid down on the table.
While he was dictating, two or three cards were brought in, also some books with a request for the President's autograph, and there were some other interruptions.
Julia, love," said her husband, "my father asks you if you choose cards or dancing.
Cards were a matter of course with Sir Sampson and his lady; but as whist was the only game they ever played, a difficulty arose as to the means of providing amusement for the younger part of the company.
The cards were slowly doled out by Miss Jacky; and Lady Juliana was carefully instructed in the rules of the game, and strongly recommended always to try for a sequence, or pairs, etc.
Miss Jacky, advancing with a pack of cards in one hand, and a box of counters in the other.
Her Grace had issued cards for a concert; and after mature deliberation it was decided that her rival should strike out something new, and announce a christening for the same night.
If you dream of cards named spades, you will be enticed into follies which will bring you grief and misfortune.
