The first pair of shoes that Red bought after his wedding were not patent leather, and, though the porter of his gambling place blacked them every morning, still they were common leather, and the boy noticed it.
We three 'll put in our nights ranging about town, lookin' into the gambling dens, saloons, and hotels.
And under the very shadow of the cathedral walls a group of native Mexicanos were busily engaged in their favorite amusement of gambling with cards or in cock-fighting.
He had found the road from gambling to forgery a natural and easy one.
If they had only known it, the person they were looking for was inside that gambling den at that very moment.
If he gets into a private game of cards he reports a gambling game and has gentlemen arrested.
The men entered the house and Girard said: "My gamblingbox is on the top floor.
Gambling is a fatal amusement and sooner or later leads to disaster.
He had seen so many men drop down to poverty who had taken their first step back in a gambling den, and during the course of his career he had warned, and in some instances saved young clerks who were just beginning to slide downward.
Oscar had not been long in the gambling den when his original suspicions were all fully confirmed.
He had learned the various games merely as aids in his profession, for most criminals are inveterate gamblers, and it is in gambling dens where detectives find their richest fields for "dead shadows.
Darkly the investigator painted the gambling evil of the New York of the sixties.
On my way I met a soldier at Kieff who bought me a golden bag for no other reason than because it seemed to him that to give pleasure to somebody else was a better way of spending his money than in gambling or self-indulgence.
He had told her, when she had protested against his generosity, that before he was lost in the war his money would be better spent in giving some one something that was desired than in gambling it all away.
You could hear him saying to himself, "Serves me right for gambling with a stranger!
No gambling house on earth would have the nerve to put her right age on a wheel!
Ain't it funny how they get the gambling spirit so young?
It would just be in the nature of a friendly contest, which he feels very much like having one, since he can be pushed just so far; but Cora says gambling has brutalized him.
One says, Ye Olde Tyme Saloone; and the other says, Ye Olde Tyme Gambling Denne.
Cousin Egbert overheard this and snorted like no gentleman had ought to, even in the lowestgambling den.
All eyes looked to Sir Robert Walpole, and he did all that financial skill could do, to repair the evils which speculation and gambling had caused.
If he gained from it, rather than from Dumas or Mérimée, the idea of his gambling scene, he does not follow his model closely.
It is doubtful whether Espronceda owes anything to either of these French works, although both works contain gambling scenes very similar to that in which Don Félix de Montemar intervened.
He had a bias in favor of Mexican associates, and much of his time was spent down under the river bank, where a few small wine-shops and gambling establishments still existed in those days.
There were also rumors of drinking and gambling orgies in the house under the mesquite-tree, and people said that many strange customers traversed that path through the mesquite, and entered Little's back door.
The magistrates took away his licence for allowing gambling to go on at his house.
Cheating, lying, andgambling looked as if they would pay after all!
How Cripps had used his advantage to drive the boy from one wickedness and folly to another--from deceit to gambling, from gambling to debt, from debt to more deceit, and so on.
And gambling at cards, or gambling or betting of any sort whatever, is a practice in which no self-respecting young fellow can indulge.
It is gambling just the same; it is wicked; it leads to so much that is bad.
Fauvel, having small sums doled out to you to pay your little gambling debts.
After leaving the army we lose sight of him; all we can discover is, that he went to England, and thence to a German gambling resort, where he became notorious for his scandalous conduct.
Clameran, in a scandalous gambling affair which took place at the house of some disreputable woman, and wound up by being tried before the police court.
Notwithstanding the expensive free lunches given by thesegambling houses every day, they made immense amounts of money.
For those whose recklessness in younger years had dulled their desire for women, there was gambling and drinking to suit any taste or pocketbook.
This little girl was taken from a gambling den at Isleton, a small town on the Sacramento river.
In many cases girls are thus sold by their parents for the payment of gambling and other debts, and sometimes, alas, to provide money for the purchase of opium.
Since then, the principality's mild climate, splendid scenery, and gambling facilities have made Monaco world famous as a tourist and recreation center.
The Isle of Man also attracts online gambling sites and the film industry.
There he was set upon in the taproom by certain old friends and gambling associates, who accused him of wilfully attempting to injure Miss Vancourt.
Badsworth Hall, a fine sixteenth-century pile, had, through the reckless racing and gambling propensities of the last heir, fallen into the hands of the Jews.
It is a species of gambling as pernicious to public morals as it is contrary to public policy.
Ordinarily the gambling would have had no fascination for him.
He had won the money in gamblingthat it might be used for a right purpose.
With the drinking there was gambling with cards and dice.
London swarms with vile clubs which are merely gambling saloons; professional men, tradesmen, clerks, and even artizans crowd into these horrid holes, and do business with the professional gamblers.
Drink first, gambling second, lubricity third--those are the chief interests of the young men, and I cannot say that the interests of mature and elderly men differ very much from those of the fledglings.
We talk of the Italians as a gambling nation, but they are not to be compared with the English for recklessness and purblind persistence.
I said that racing is a delightful pastime to those who go to watch good horses gallop; the miserable thing to me is seeing the wretches who do not care for racing at all, but only care for gambling on names and numbers.
That seems to point out rather an extensive gambling business.
The paralysis at once of intellect and of the sense of humour which attacks the man who begins flirting with the gambling Enchantress struck me with a sense of helplessness.
Bookmaking is a business which is carried out in its higher branches with perfect sobriety, discretion, mid probity; the gambling element does not come in on the bookmaker's side, but he deals with gamblers in a fair way.
The same middle class which is envenomed by the gambling madness is also the heir of all the more vile habits which the aristocrats have abandoned.
I have drawn attention to this new evil because I have peculiar opportunities of studying the inner life of our society, and I find that the gambling epidemic is spreading among the middle-classes.
What would Lord Sandford say if he suddenly expressed his intention of giving up gambling in all its many insidious forms, in order to enter upon a life totally different from that of the past weeks?
Why was Mr. Thomas's son, here, shot in a gambling house?
His own sons had turned out badly, and it was not a year since one of them had made his last trip home in the express car, shot in a gambling house in the Black Hills.
They are woefully hard up--the result of heavy gambling in a past generation, and the depreciation of land in this.
My faith, it will be a heavy change if they make that into the fashionable gambling hell of Europe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gambling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gambling; play; playing; prostitution; racket; rackets; speculation; sporting; syndicate; usury
