He is usually here playing dominoes with somebody about this hour.
Psmith, moving a box of dominoes on to the next table, sat down.
Except for him, there has been little dominoes talent in the Psmith family.
A cousin of mine, who secured his chess blue at Oxford, would, they tell me, have represented his University in the dominoes match also, had he not unfortunately dislocated the radius bone of his bazooka while training for it.
Her abode was truly an enlivening scene, with its variety of maskers, bright dominoes and vizards.
The gallants mixed masks and dominoes in obedience to the royal wish.
Friends," he continued, "we will mix masks and dominoes and to't again to drown our sorrow.
Well, this was but the beginning of a series of evenings, until it came to be understood that these three dined together each night, subsequently returning to old George Bethune's rooms, for a little music or dominoes before parting.
There I shall end my days sadly, playing dominoes with polar bears, or spreading the elements of journalistic training among the seals.
Very well," said he, and he pushed away his paper and emptied the dominoes out on the table.
In a few minutes I took the box of dominoes in my hand and went over to Colbert.
While I was looking over the things in my trunk, I came across the box of dominoes that Corny had given us to remember her by.
Here is a trick played with dominoes which may be new: Spread out a set of dominoes upon the table, being careful to extract one for your own use.
Inform the company that if they will match the dominoesyou have laid down, using every domino, you will, after leaving the room, determine the numbers at either end of the match.
The village aristocracy were engaged atdominoes in the kitchen; and the time which we wasted in dining they attempted to utilise more profitably by mastering the English tongue.
Not but that dominoes (as played in a Spanish cafe) is an exciting, even an athletic, pastime.
This effort resulted in six of the supers, who were gotten up in voluminous dominoes with elaborate, but inexpensive, pasteboard trimmings, and who were within hearing distance, falling stiff and stark to the stage.
Thus, the vicomte still shuffled the ebon dominoes of a night and sang out jovially, "Doubles!
Eh, well, Chevalier, let us go and play dominoes with Monsieur Nicot.
One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen.
After many other performances Mr. Leonard invited Mr. Blanc, a gentleman present, to play a game of dominoes with one of his dogs, which he consented to do.
This method of playing a game of dominoes must have been entirely the result of his individual observation and judgment.
Six dominoes were placed on their edges, in the usual way, before the dog and the same number before Mr. Blanc.
A fresh lot of six dominoes were then served out to each competitor and Mr. Blanc (just to test the dog) intentionally put a wrong number in the course of the game.
Following this, a Spanish dancer, whom the sixdominoes recognized at once as the treacherous Miriam Nesbit, gave an exhibition of her skill.
In the darkness the six dominoes made for the stairs, rushed along the gallery, and were admitted to the laboratory by the duplicate key.
Six figures, well disguised in dominoes of as many hues, presently appeared on the ball room floor, just in time for the grand march.
An expectant hush fell over the company as the six dominoes filed out of a side room and stood, for a moment, in full view of the sophomores.
That is the province of the milksop, who wastes his evening at home playing dominoes with his wife.
That evening she played dominoeswith Maida and Adelaide, and always after that a game followed dinner.
I suppose that is why she playsdominoes with Amy," said Maida in her old voice.
One piece taken from a set of dominoes invariably indicates by its numbers the numbers at the two ends of a row when the pieces are all properly matched.
Return to the table, turn the dominoes over again, shuffle them as before with the right hand; again turn your back, and call out the end numbers.
But, in the diagram, each row of four half-dominoes contains a different number of spots from any of the other rows.
Eight dominoes placed together form a square composed of sixteen half-dominoes, as shown in the diagram below.
It is required to make a square of eight dominoes of the same set, in which each vertical, horizontal, and diagonal row of half dominoes shall contain exactly sixteen spots.
Corso was crowded with all kinds of costumes and masks in carriages and on foot; the windows and balconies and roofs were thronged with dominoes and fantastic costumes; bouquets of flowers and comfits showered down through the air.
And his piercing green-grey eye scanned the dominoes that shrouded the graceful figures of his wife and her sister.
Dominoes there were, doubtless; and, of all colours, black amongst the rest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dominoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
