They had gambled in the most lucrative lottery in Europe, presided over by a man who excelled in dubious witticisms.
Beside the great oak-tree the lotteryman was holding forth as fluently as ever.
Lend Fortune a helping hand,' as they say in the lottery advertisements.
Children's Lottery Print (first published in 1804, by W.
Cruikshank himself averred that one of the first etchings he was ever employed to do and paid for was a sheet of Lottery Prints (published in 1804) of which he made a copy in his eighty-first year.
The Princeton College lottery was drawn this morning, and guess who drew a prize?
A hundred lottery chances I have bought, and never a cent the richer.
But the lottery prize; I shall hear about that, and so will my mother, too.
Pearl and the sweet mother shell--she that made it--to take that lottery prize.
If the owner of the prize in their lottery would not take it, to whom did it belong?
The "Exchanges" are the lowest class lottery offices, and they are doing a good business to-night, as you may see by the number of people passing in and out.
The Havana Lottery is managed on the single number plan.
In 1756 the first lottery ever seen in the city was opened in behalf of King's (now Columbia) College.
The numbers may be so manipulated as to be entirely in favor of the proprietors, and in the fairest lottery the chances are always very slim in favor of the exact combination expressed on any given ticket being drawn from the wheel.
The lottery business of New York is extensive, and, though conducted in violation of the law, those who carry it on make scarcely a show of secrecy.
The amount annually expended in this city in the purchase of lottery tickets is princely.
Many of the Bowery people, alas, have no money for either the banks or the lottery offices.
In this way many prizes are drawn by tickets which remain unsold in dealers' hands after they have reported to the agents; and the lottery makes it clear.
Policy dealing is closely allied with the lottery business, and is carried on by the agents for their own benefit.
It consists of betting on certain numbers, within the range of the lottery schemes, being drawn at the noon or evening drawings.
At the rear end of the front room is a door which leads into the office in which lottery tickets are sold.
The principal lottery office of the city is located on Broadway, near St. Paul's church.
The taste for adventure, is not repressed in boys by the impossibility of its indulgence; the world is before them, and they think that fame promises the highest prize to those who will most boldly venture in the lottery of fortune.
So, being wishful to dream another lottery number, he brought back with him a fanciful tale designed to quiet his employer and to assure himself ample leisure in the future.
No lottery shall hereafter be authorized by law; and the buying, selling, or transferring of tickets or chances in any lottery shall be prohibited.
Gob, if he got that lottery ticket on the side of his poll he'd remember the gold cup, he would so, but begob the citizen would have been lagged for assault and battery and Joe for aiding and abetting.
Windy night that was I went to fetch her there was that lodge meeting on about those lotterytickets after Goodwin's concert in the supperroom or oakroom of the Mansion house.
I should be very glad to see a Speculation or two upon lottery Subjects, in which you would oblige all People concerned, and in particular 'Your most humble Servant, 'George Gossling.
Lottery now drawing; which is a Secret I have communicated to some Friends, who rally me incessantly upon that Account.
I have sacrificed my Necklace to put into the Publick Lottery against the Common Enemy.
They all of them have the same Pretensions to good Luck, stand upon the same foot of Competition, and no manner of Reason can be given why a Man should prefer one to the other before the Lottery is drawn.
Indeed, it was generally thought to be just as respectable to sell lotterytickets as to sell Bibles; and we have them classed together in the same advertisement.
Quoth Pantagruel, That sort of lottery is deceitful, abusive, illicitous, and exceedingly scandalous.
How Pantagruel doth explore by the Virgilian lottery what fortune Panurge shall have in his marriage.
Footnote 41: In consequence of a very accurate inquiry which has been made, and of information derived from different sources, it appears that fraudulent Lottery Insurances have not diminished.
That all persons taking out licences to sell Lottery Tickets, shall (instead of the bond with two sureties for one thousand pounds, now entered into under the act of the 22d George 3.
At the close of the English Lottery drawn in 1796, the Civil Power was trampled upon and put to defiance in a most alarming and shameful manner, disgraceful to the Police of the Metropolis.
To individual families in easy circumstances where this unfortunate mania prevails, as well as to the mass of the people who are fascinated by the delusion of the Lottery Insurances, it is the worst of all misfortunes.
My dear cousin, before having distributed the list of lottery winners, I've sent you a false list, as you asked me to do, so you can have a big joke in your village.
I dare to hope that the list of winning lottery numbers is in this letter.
Perhaps the lottery theory of marriage was never stated more strongly or with greater cynicism; but is it true?
The consequence is that nearly all persons who are ignorant of the scheme which the Government has laid to tax them, spend more or less every year for lottery tickets.
Barnum first started as a store-keeper, and was also concerned in the lottery mania then prevailing in the United States.
The proclamation is reproduced in fac-simile in Three Proclamations concerning the Lottery for Virginia, published by the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.
The method of allotting lands by lottery is described in Gomme's Village Community.
The last drawing under the king's sanction made everyone in good spirits, for the lottery lost twenty thousand crowns.
Hitherto the lottery had always been a gainer, but its late loss could not have come at a worse time.
Lefort was an example of the inconstancy of fortune; he was then in disgrace on account of a lottery which he had held at Moscow to celebrate the coronation of the empress, who had furnished him with the necessary funds.
After this lucky drawing it was easy to find guarantors, and the lottery went on successfully for two or three years.
Your majesty is right, for the confidence which makes the people risk their money in a lottery is perfectly fallacious.
He promised that the lottery should bring in an annual revenue of at least two hundred thousand crowns, and only asked a percentage of ten per cent.
He wanted capital to the amount of two million crowns, for he foresaw that otherwise the lottery would collapse, as people would not risk their money without the certainty of being paid in the event of their winning.
The czarina spoke to me about the fondness of the Venetians for games of chance, and asked if the Genoa Lottery had been established there.
The lottery had been broken and the fact was attributed to the baron's supposed dishonesty.
Calsabigi had no difficulty in obtaining permission to continue the lottery on his own account, and he boldly announced that henceforward he would conduct the lottery on his own risk.
The next drawing, he said, would be at the king's risk; but the public would have to be informed that in future the lottery would be a private one.
The first visit I paid in Berlin was to Calsabigi, the younger brother of the Calsabigi with whom I had founded the lottery in Paris in 1757.
And now the king has withdrawn his countenance, the lottery will fail, and Calsabigi will inevitably become a bankrupt.
The Doctor naturally enough invested in a good many more lottery tickets, but without any further return.
City of Paris Bonds issued on this system are very popular among French people with small savings; but, on the other hand, many ventures, whoselottery stock has been authorised by the Legislature, have come to grief and ruined investors.
And when Hyacinthe had gone off, passing with perverse contempt beside the lovely girls who were selling lottery tickets, the journalist ventured to murmur: "All the same, it would do that youngster good if a woman were to take him in hand.
And now, on his return from them, he had his hands full of lottery tickets: "Ah!
It was at the time when the Chamber was asked to authorise the issue of lottery stock.
Souls in Purgatory begged for: Lottery of Purgatory.
The religious ingenuity of the Catholics has gone so far as to publish the scheme of a lottery for the benefit of such souls as might otherwise escape their notice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lottery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blackjack; bridge; drawing; game; raffle; sweep
