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Example sentences for "cribbage"

Lexicographically close words:
creyendo; cria; criado; criados; crib; cribbed; cribbing; cribriform; cribs; crick
  1. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

  2. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

  3. Then there was Mr. McQueen, who came to the house several times to play cribbage with John.

  4. Suppose, for example, that she forgot to have his senna tea for him at night or didn't care about playing cribbage for three-quarters of an hour after dinner?

  5. Henry was charmingly interested in the details of her trip, and the usual cribbage session was doubled.

  6. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

  7. One night, not long after the return, Scott and Matt sat at a game of cribbage preliminary to going to bed.

  8. It was warm and comfortable, and he was playing cribbage with the Factor.

  9. Mrs. Burney and Phillips take their chance at cribbage here on Wednesday.

  10. Like other great men I have a public day, cribbage and pipes, with Phillips and noisy Martin.

  11. Phillips was there, and Charles had a long batch of Cribbage with him: and, upon the whole, we had the most chearful evening I have known there a long time.

  12. The Captain was playing cribbage with Mr Toots.

  13. Sinclair looked up at him, but Avery, studying his cribbage hand, pretended not to notice he was passing.

  14. The cribbage game stopped at sight of him.

  15. Later still a stupid three-handed cribbage game was going on when, after eleven o'clock, Willett came briskly in.

  16. It was a bright afternoon, but they sat indoors, and Mrs. Riddel, after an animated description of a game at cribbage with Miss Philpotts the night before, got the cards out and challenged Halibut to a game.

  17. Phillips was there, and Charles had a long batch of cribbage with him, and upon the whole we had the most chearful evening I have known there a long time.

  18. The theory of Three-handed Cribbage is the same as that in Cribbage, which we have already described.

  19. He was in another sort of mood the next time, cribbage not interesting him in the least.

  20. Accordingly she took over the cribbage board, and came with unexpected hesitation face to face again with the swarthy man she had saved and tended.

  21. Her knowledge of the mysteries of cribbage extended no further.

  22. And it was a proof of the wonderful confidence the little woman had in herself, that, in an off-hand way, she should suggest cribbage as a means of passing the time, just as though she were mistress of the game.

  23. Now, it must be confessed that cribbage was a game of which Mrs. Nuttall was profoundly ignorant.

  24. I'll do the cooking, and between whiles we can sit right here and play cribbage day in and day out.

  25. But no: when he isn't out in the hills, he'd rather sit down in that back room at the Silver Dollar saloon, playing cribbage all day with a lot of drunken loafers.

  26. At the hour when he should have been dressed and ready I found him playing at cribbage with Cousin Egbert in the latter's apartment, and to my dismay he insisted upon finishing the rubber although guests were already arriving.

  27. The place was immediately packed and jammed by an anxious and irritated multitude that bought drinks, and for four weary hours watched Smoke play cribbage with his old friend Breck.

  28. She has picked up cribbage with remarkable quickness, and although this is only the third evening we have played, she was getting the better of me when Pasquale appeared.

  29. What does it matter to you whether she has a soul or not," says the voice, "provided she can babble pleasantly at dinner and play cribbage with you afterwards?

  30. In time she began to consider cribbage a somewhat slow amusement, and her mistress, nothing loath, undertook to open up for her the beauties of écarté.

  31. Now run an’ fetch the cribbage board off my chest of drawers.

  32. Strange to relate the following evening found Mrs. Gillison and Susan Copeland sitting at the same table with the same cribbage board between them, evincing the same determined interest in the game.

  33. There never was a better man than my husband, and me an’ him played cribbage every night of our lives.

  34. The prisoner who made the carved cribbage box would easily get the turned pegs finished off outside.

  35. Some of the bone articles have parts that have been turned; one of the minor exhibits is a pair of turned cribbage pegs.

  36. Cribbage Players Win Baxter Cup The aggregate scores for the season in the Vancouver inter-club and cribbage association show the Hudson's Bay Company players as winners of the T.


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    Other words:
    blackjack; bridge; game