The gamble which had brought him down till his throat at last was at the mercy of a bullying hound.
We were lazy lurdans, nestling there in the moonlight, but time is the precious gift of the Almighty and man may gambleit away if he chooses.
Gamble argued with him, but in vain; die he must unless the hair and the plantain leaf were brought back to him; and to obtain them he had offered the Happahs the greater part of his property.
A Marquesan chief told Lieutenant Gamble that he was extremely ill, the Happah tribe having stolen a lock of his hair and buried it in a plantain leaf for the purpose of taking his life.
How many would be brave enough to take a gamble like that, on a fellow's mere supposition?
I can't be certain, but I'm willing to gamble on it, if you are.
If I can't gamble with gentlemen I'll gamble with rustlers.
Russ, we're all with him, an' I'll gamble that the honest citizens of Linrock will flock to him in another day.
Her husband did not drink enough to complain of, but he liked to gamble and he had been fleeced by a crooked game in Jack Martin's saloon.
Moreover, the goings-on among the habitues of the resorts and the cowboys who came in to drink and gamble were unusually mild in comparison with former conduct.
At last she said, "And do they leave this paradise to gamble in a room?
Every move has been tried before you existed, and the result of all is that to bet against the bank, wildly or systematically, is to gamble against a rock.
I've stopped his allowance for the rest of the year, so he can't even gamble on credit, and I've subscribed a lump sum to the church offertory in his name instead of giving him instalments of small silver to put in the bag on Sundays.
The thing had ceased to be a mere sporting gamble with himself and a few other chosen spirits matched against a gang of criminals; it had become--if his surmise was correct--a national affair.
Accustomed to play with great stakes, he had just dealt the cards for the most gigantic gamble of his life.
Remember this--you, too, Lone Bull: those who gambleare always poor.
U's are accepted; and a drunken fool may gambleaway not only all he has with him, but all he has elsewhere or ever expects to have, and more.
He has a hold over me; he tempted me to gamble in one of his houses, and I--well, he has a hold over me.
You brought your friends and encouraged him to gamble and waste his money in his old age, when his mind had become enfeebled.
You drained him of his last penny, and then you offered him ten thousand dollars to gamble with in Quebec, telling him of the delights of the city and promising him immunity," the girl went on remorselessly.
It was just straight water, and you can gamble I filled up on it a-plenty.
Ruins don't interest me much, though I was kinda surprised to run acrost that one, all right, and I'm willing to gamble there was warm and exciting times down there when the place was in running order.
He's liable to be most anything, and I'll gamblehe can build a good dinner for a hungry man.
Now and then a miner, dirty and disheveled, came in ragged clothes to gamble or drink away the contents of a pouch of "dust.
He'd a bag full of dust, so he'll gamble and guzzle till morning most likely.
I wouldn't gamble a pea-shuck he hasn't quite a dandy bunch of notches on his gun.
Anything to do with Jeff Masters, anything of his was good enough for her to gamble on--even with her life.
He don't kick reasonably or unreasonably, and I'd gamble you a new hat he hasn't a notion what he's getting for it.
Not so harmless if they gamble to the extent of owing each other a hundred dollars," remarked Mary Louise shrewdly.
That won't be so nice for him, especially if he likes to gamble and needs the money to pay his debts.
On a one-shot gamble of this kind, the 'laws' of chance are no good at all.
Your intuition for the one-shot gamble was the one thing that bailed us out this time.
But it's the biggestgamble there ever was, and I think we need an expert.
For that matter, the so-called ESP experiments showed us long ago that even the way we construct random tables is full of holes--and that a man with a feeling for the essence of a gamble can make a monkey out of chance almost at will.
Once I 'appropriated' money from my mother's purse togamble with.
He had sworn not to gamble again, and he had broken his oath.
Because some vulgar and fast people gamble with them is nothing.
You will take a sleigh-ride with us to-morrow, and yet loud jockeys bet and gamble over horses half the year.
From what I hear, men bet and gamblewith all uncertainties.
He did not gamble more than the others, but he had other expenses.
He might almost have been called a professional gambler, though he was known to gamble perfectly honourably and straightforwardly.
The officers would play, and if they were not allowed to play in the barracks or the mess-room, then they would gamble in some club or in another regiment or in their own homes.
No gamble about Mary," Dad said, in deep earnestness.
You can gamble on it he's got an automatic in his pocket when he don't strap it on him in the open.
If labour did not create wealth, there would be nothing to gamble with or to gamble for.
