In association with the men who have the games are pickpockets and other professional thieves,--indeed the gamesters themselves can frequently change clothes with the pickpockets and let the thieves attend to the games while they pick pockets.
For Peggy she knew right well, Although she was but a Woman; That Gamesters Drink, and Fidlers Wives, They are ever Free and Common.
In the first case they are allowed a minute's time; and go on again; in the latter another pair of gamesters are called on.
Other gamesters followed, to the number of seventeen, affording most excellent sport to a numerous and well-dressed field.
Twenty-four gamesters contended manfully at Harrow-on-the-Hill for a prize of a hat and purse, at the right valiant game of backsword.
I found there a charming girl from Strasburg, named Salzmann, three or four gamesters who had come to drink the waters, and several ladies, to whom I shall introduce the reader in the ensuing chapter.
The drunkard, and riotous, and gamesters expect their parents should maintain their sin.
Here there are also your gamesters in action; some turning off a whimsey, others throwing for pewter, who can quickly dissolve a round shilling into a three-halfpenny saucer.
Since my last, I have received a letter from Tom Trump, to desire that I would do the fraternity of gamesters the justice to own, that there are notorious sharpers who are not of their class.
From felon gamesters the raw squire is free, And Britain owes her rescued oaks to thee.
The most noted female gamesters were Lady Buckinghamshire, Lady Archer, Lady Mount Edgecombe, a trio who had earned for themselves the soubriquet of "Faro's Daughters.
Staggering out broken-hearted, in the dark midnight, dozens of ruined gamesters have wandered from these fatal doors into the plaza.
Near him stands "French Charlie," one of the deadliest gamesters of the plaza.
As soon as the door had closed behind him, several of the gamesters exchanged sententious nods and glances.
But I took care to betray no sign of surprise, and quietly observed the games and the gamesters with almost as impassive a demeanour as that of my companion.
Experienced gamestersthrow up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand.
This makes him venture to talk and scribble, as chouses do to play with cunning gamesters until they are cheated and laughed at.
The betters are the factious noise of the alley, or the gamestersbedesmen that pray for them.
How Gamesters are caress'd at many Womens Houses, and the great Emoluments of Gaming, 201.
It is certain, that at many of the Womens Houses, the Gamesters are as much pamper'd as a Father Confessor is by his Female Votary.
The poet says, The first game was the best, when free from crime, The courtly gamesters all were in their prime.
Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.
So as I stood there and looked upon the gaming-place and the gamesters in their folly, my governor asked me how the thing pleased me.
So will I shew to all Christendom that the dear God is more blasphemed by a single regiment of gamesters than by a whole army with their curses.
Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand.
Her room was so located that thegamesters came and went without going near her room.
Therefore, being well aware of the fact, no serious anticipation was held as to how the gamesters would be dealt with, since they had been caught after midnight Saturday night.
He went into another place, where most of the gamesters were men from the country, whom a few hardened rooks of the town were fleecing.
The women were dividing their attention between the gamestersand a lean greyhound, for which they would toss occasionally a bit of food into the air.
Gamesters worke not with their hands the thing that is good, to be free from stealing (Ephe.
Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most Famous Gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles II.
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