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Example sentences for "gambling house"

  • Why, I reckon that's a gambling house," was the reply.

  • I've never been in a gambling house, Hugh.

  • It's about the last place in which I'd want to be shot, a gambling house.

  • Possibly--so far as concerns your maintenance of a gambling house.

  • Thrown with wild, uncouth men, and being reckless in the extreme, he opened a gambling house.

  • I was near a gambling house, but I was too tired to care, nature asserted herself, and I gently crossed the river into the land of Nod.

  • In the conduct of a gambling house of the first class, the gambling king needs for himself and for his patrons the assurance of uninterrupted play.

  • In the same year numbers of young persons robbed their masters to play at a certain establishment called Morley's Gambling House, in the City, and were ruined there.

  • Master Ben has been seen coming out of a gambling house.

  • Who could have invited him to a gambling house, and with what object in view?

  • Novice as he was, a glance satisfied him that he was in a gambling house.

  • I suppose it is a gambling house," Ben answered, without hesitation.

  • Edouard looked on and listened with astonishment to what was taking place before him for the first time; for before his marriage he had never chosen to enter a gambling house, being prudent enough then to distrust his own weakness.

  • There is a house in Buckingham Street that we have had our eye on for some time; it is a gambling house, but with that we have nothing to do unless complaints are made, but we have had several complaints of late.

  • I was for three years in a gambling house in Paris, where every other man was a sharper.

  • A gambling house at the end of the last century was conducted by the following officials:-- 1.

  • One of the fashionable young men of Lord Orford's day had been unhappily decoyed into a gambling house, where his passion for play became so great that he spent nearly the whole of his time in throwing the dice.

  • If there is a gambling house running in my section of the country, it'll not run long!

  • Sheriff Kowen had not had a chance to raid a gambling house of any importance for more than a year; and raiding a gambling house was his pet sport.

  • When Sheriff Kowen raided a gambling house, he did not do things by halves.

  • Crockford, or Crockey, as he was familiarly called, his was perhaps the most celebrated gambling house in London, and deserves especial mention.

  • He seemed to be in favor rather of regulating, than of attempting the impossible; still, if McCrasky brought him undoubted evidence that a gambling house was in operation, he would consider it his duty to make a raid on it.

  • The idea of the guardians of the city standing in with a gambler or a gambling house!

  • Didn't you know it was against the law to keep a gambling house in this state?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gambling house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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