Number twenty-seven came up, and the croupiers flung over three gold pieces and five florins to Lady Kicklebury, which she raked up with a trembling hand.
The countenances of the croupiers were cold, passionless, and totally devoid of any animation.
The Croupiers put on their imperturbable countenances as easily as if they were masks; and the Bonnets appear to be as intent upon the game, as if its results were to them perspective life or death.
The Croupiers are usually trustworthy persons well known to the proprietor, or else shareholders themselves in the establishment.
A huge pile of notes and gold lay before him; but at rapid intervals one of the Croupiers raked away the stakes which he deposited; and thus his heap of money was gradually growing smaller.
Then the croupiers paused, as it were, by common consent; and all eyes were directed towards the object of universal interest.
From their points of vantage the eight croupiers alternately did their business and regarded the assembly with a bored air.
Of the seven beings gathered about the table, six were croupiers and the seventh was reading Le Temps.
This official sat in the center, flanked on each side by croupiers with rakes; but at each end of the table there was also a croupier with his rake.
He will be cautious at starting, as one who opens trenches for the siege of Mammon; but soon the veteran will get heated, and give battle; he will fancy himself at Jena, since the croupiersare Prussians.
They got excited, and bet higher; the croupiers pelted them with golden coins, and they began to pant and flush, and their eyes to gleam.
The book is a full and descriptive account of the methods of croupiers in dealing with players, of the observation maintained by the officials over both croupiers and the players.
She had supposed herself to be unknown there in the salon, but no doubt all the croupiers and half the company knew well enough who was the new customer at the table.
One of the croupiers had said a word, as though calling his attention to the game, but he had merely shaken his head.
They at first walked through the different rooms, whispering to each other their comments on the people that they saw, and listening to the quick, low, monotonous words of the croupiers as they arranged and presided over the games.
We afterwards recognised them as the croupiers who ran the Petits Chevaux.
Henry was so absorbed that he did not observe a colloquy between two of the croupiers at the middle of the table.
There are two chefs-de-parties employed to supervise the game, and four croupiers to receive the losing stakes and pay the winning ones, one of the croupiers also being the tailleur, or dealer of the cards.
While on the subject of where to stake one's money, the reader, if a novice at Monte Carlo, is recommended to hand the amount of his wager to one of the croupiers to place on the table for him.
The croupiers and the clerks, the Jews who lend money at high interest, the Christians who let lodgings, all the rogues and swindlers who one way or another make a living out of the play, fill the air with their complaints.
The croupiers seem to be always on the look-out for cheating.
But "Mademoiselle," as the croupiers always called her, was usually lucky.
The croupiers at that table are ever watchful of the visitor who, all unawares, occupies that fatal chair.
The excited crowd sitting and standing around the table exchanged smiles and glances, and at that moment the croupiers changed.
It is often remarked by professional gamesters that luck departs from the fortunate when the croupiers are changed.
At that moment two players rose from their chairs, and the pair so well-known to the croupiers and attendants "marked" their places.
The bank must win to pay for the croupiers and keep the place going," I said.
I entertain a hope that if you have ever taken part in that orgie, at which every one with the exception of the croupiers looks greedy and hungry, that you will in the future abstain from it.
I had heard that the rule forbidding all tips to the croupiers had been recently abrogated; so that I feed the men in my neighbourhood magnificently.
Of course, I lost many times, but I am sure I gave the desired impression to the croupiers at our table where the marked wheel is, that I was a wealthy gambler indifferent as to whether I won or lost.
The long rakes of the croupiers shot out from every part of the table, threading their way in and out among the masses of gold, silver and bank notes with extraordinary rapidity and the most delicate manipulation.
He glanced again at his watch, as the croupiers began to croak their "Faites vos jeux" and gazed moodily round the table, which was now beginning to fill up.
The whole crowd, the croupiers also, were waiting to see what he would do.
At all events, the croupiers of Roulettenberg seemed to look upon the Grandmother as their lawful prey--whereafter there befell what our party had foretold.
In fact, I cannot have been in possession of all my faculties, for I can remember thecroupiers correcting my play more than once, owing to my having made mistakes of the gravest order.
The croupiers were making up a heavy packet of coins, sealed in blue paper, and containing fifty ten gulden pieces, together with an unsealed packet containing another twenty.
He played on till the croupiers were clearing the tables for the night.
Mary's seat was near the spinner, one of the croupiers who had seen her sensational wins twelve hours ago.
Meanwhile, different relays of croupiers and inspectors had come and gone, and the crowd round the table had changed.
It all came from his obstinacy in believing that the croupiers at trente et quarante were signalling to him whether it was going to be inverse or couleur, when they were really only licking their thumbs to deal the cards better!
Lots of people like zero better than anything, because they think the croupierstry to spin it, for the good of the bank.
Many players followed her lead, and every one was calling out "zero" and pushing or throwing coins to the croupiers to be staked on that chance.
Probably many of the croupiers in the Casino and their families had houses there, and perhaps many were shopkeepers down in the Condamine, where the cheap hotels and lodging-houses were.
The neat piles of money which she had reduced to ruin and confusion were sorted out again between croupiers and players, while the game obligingly waited.
The croupiers and dealers nodded to him genially; those of the "guests" Whom he knew did likewise.
And as the Croupiers may not play themselves, and would have the play of no one to superintend, they, too, might be excused, as their labour would be in vain.
Naturally the lower orders would follow the lead of the upper classes, and then there would be only the Croupiers left.
The double zero seemed to obey him; so that the croupiers wondered at his fortune.
The crowds and the music, the gambling-tables and the cadaverous croupiers and chinking gold, were far out of sight and hearing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "croupiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
