I think he is a gambler and dealer in counterfeit money.
The gambler yonder, with a toothpick in his mouth, has of late succeeded in his tricks.
Calogero in the sea has as much connection with the meteorological conditions as the dream has with the lottery numbers; yet the treatment of the saint has the sanction of the Church and the act of the gambler is branded as superstitious.
This is not a good thing"; but it is a worse thing for the gambler who wins.
The peasant and the gambler are both playing for material gain, and S.
Calogero an act of faith," said the sceptical guard, "and yet when a gambler puts a few soldi on any number he may have dreamt of, we call it superstition.
A gambler once brought suit for the loss of his trunk, which contained a roulette table and other paraphernalia of his 'profession,' together with two revolvers and a bowie-knife.
The subject has taken on additional interest because of the suicide of a well-known gambler who was the fourth of his family in two generations to take his own life.
As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
He was not a rake and a gambler as Sir Francis was; but a man who cared for learning, and for freedom, and the thoughts that make people better.
You may be as prosperous as report says you are,” continued Fillmore; “but you are a gambler to the marrow of your bones.
You see, my dear, there was always a bit of the gamblerin me, and I used to have wonderful luck.
He was an expert gambler and trader, and very industrious withal.
It contained more gold than the same weight of minted coin; but the money used in nearly all transactions was gold dust; hence, every merchant, saloonkeeper orgambler had his gold scales at command.
He then took a favorable position and watched the gambler closely, and soon discovered the secret of his success, and concluded to beat him at his own game.
Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.
He brought David's servant, an accomplished gambler as well as a recruiter of brigosi.
You proved how good a gambler you are by losing to de Verceuil.
His is the typical look of the well-bred gambler who knows how to conceal his agitation.
Certainly the River Prophet and the river gambler were an interesting combination.
Hit don't bring a gambler any luck, bein' heard swearin', no.
It is by no means improbable that the gambler is now playing monte on some plantation in Cuba.
The daughter of the Medici became magnificent; her real self shone upon her face, which, like that of a gambler over the green table, glittered with vast cupidities.
The gambler laughed, and seated himself on the bed--the paper still in his hand.
Among those who were listening intently to the man’s carefully modulated tones, Glenister recognized Mexico Mullins, the ex-gambler who had given Dextry the warning at Unalaska.
The scheme took form without conscious effort on his part and embraced two things--the death of the gambler and a meeting with McNamara.
The gambler hesitated an instant while the crowd pricked up its ears, and the girl turned wondering, troubled eyes upon the miner.
The gambler handled himself with difficulty, offering in explanation: “I’m all sewed up in bandages of one kind or another.
The gambler was a revelation to her--his work was wonderful.
The miner could have killed him with a blow, for the gambler was seated and at his mercy.
The gamblershot a triumphant glance at the girl and acquiesced.
The gambler turned towards the three men who were hurrying from the beach, and, recognizing Wheaton, called to him: “Untie my feet!
Dextry and his companion had crossed to the other side and were approaching, so the gambler gained a fair view of them.
At that instant the sound told that the miner had won again, and it dawned upon Cherry that the gambler beside her stood too quietly, that his hand and voice were too steady, his glance too cold to be natural.
So Glenister was gambling, the girl learned, and with such luck as to break the Black Jack game and excite the greed of every gambler in camp.
That’s a hell of a question,” the gambler said, hoarsely.
She did not notice the Bronco Kid beckoning to her nor the man with him, so the gambler brought his friend along and invaded her box.
This god appeared on a second night and told him that if the king would make an idol of a certain wood growing near she would breathe power into it, and would make the gambler her priest.
Paris became an iridescent dream, and the gambler found his way to the Tortugas, where he doubtless shipped with Morgan, Teach, or some other of the scourges of the Spanish main.
Illustration: "I Got a Gamblerto Look Cross at Dad.
Dad didn't sleep good that night, and the next morning I got a gambler to look cross at dad and size him up, and dad didn't eat any breakfast.
Then Sengoun shot him through the head; and at the same moment somebody stabbed Curfoot in the neck; and the lank American gambler turned and cried out to Stull in a voice half strangled with pain and fury: "Look out, Ben.
The sportsman in him desired to witness a scrap; his artist's imagination was aroused; the gambler in him speculated as to the outcome of such a war.
Gambler that he was, he had once understood that patience is a gambler's only stock in trade.
He had waited many years for this--for material fortune--for that chance which every gambler waits to seize when the psychological second ticks out.
Sengoun," he said under his breath, "that type who just came in is an American gambler named Doc Curfoot; and he is here with other gamblers for the purpose of obtaining political information for some government other than my own.
I've talked with every gambler in town, an' the last one is agreed they ain't no such thing as system.
If a system can beat a system, then there's no such thing as system," the gambler went on.
And the foremost was Con Morton, the gambler who had threatened Jed, and who had robbed Gabe Harrison of nearly all his fortune.
Without stopping to think of the consequences of his act, he shot out his left arm, his fist caught the gambler squarely on the chin, and the fellow fell flat on his back, after a desperate effort to retain his footing.
Now Jed had never told a lie, and he did not want to begin now, though the gambler asked a question he had no right to have answered.
Old Sim Butterfield, the fellow that had one ear bit off in a fight, got into trouble with a gambler out here the other day, and now the other ear is gone.
If I had the money the gambler swindled me out of I'd be in good shape now.
Maybe that gambler your friend wrote about is the same one who swindled you," suggested Jed.
That fellow was Con Morton, the gambler who robbed me of nearly all my fortune," replied Gabe, to the surprise of the boys.
I desire that my girl, who is a loving girl, with a heart of gold, should be wooed and married by a gentleman whom she will respect and honour--not a drinker nor a gambler nor a profligate.
She was enjoying, in fact, the rapture which fills the heart of the gambler and makes play the only thing desirable in life.
That you are a gamblerand a rake; that you have ruined many; that you are ruined yourself.
