When you return to the room you subtract the number of pips on that card from ten and the product will show the number of the card from the top, the pips on which indicate the number of cards your friend has moved.
On each of these must be placed as many cards as will, with the number of pips on the card, make fifteen.
The remaining cards are to be handed to the performer, who goes through any farce he chooses to make the audience believe that his calculations depend upon the pips of the cards handed to him.
This counting will, of course, be done with many apparently intricate calculations, founded upon the pips of the cards in the performer's hand combined with the packs on the table.
The two cards must be placed as the three described in the first method, and each have placed upon it sufficient cards, with the number of pips on the card, to make up twenty-five.
The table annexed will show the pips on the bottom cards of the respective packs, with the number of cards in each pack:-- Bottom Card Number of Cards Counts in Pack.
He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table.
There he was, sitting with a newly opened envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the outstretched palm of the other one.
Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others.
Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and John Swain, of St. Augustine.
Have a large basin near you with some cold water in it, to throw the pips and peels into--a pint is sufficient for a dozen oranges.
Apples intended for dumplings should not have the core taken out of them, as the pips impart a delicious flavour to the dumpling.
It had been impossible for the British forces to push forward before as we had only captured Pips 4 and 5 on the “P” ridge a few days previously.
The capture of these two pips enabled our men to occupy more advanced positions without being under the direct observation of the Bulgar.
IV Nancy Whitman arrived at Woodbridge Center as planned, and her brother and nephew were at the station to meet her, the latter with his collection of ninety-six orange pips in a candy box.
It seems to be a rule of the collection that his pips can only be taken from oranges he's eaten, and as he only gets one a day at his breakfast, there is no help for him.
It seems that he has been very much impressed by a postal card from his Aunt Nancy showing a California orange grove, and so he has been collecting orange pips ever since!
When one of the players has used up all his dominoes, his opponent turns up those he has left, the pips are then counted, and the number of pips is scored to the account of the player who was out first.
The one who draws the stone with the highest number of pips on it takes the lead.
Nor do the German pipsand cards lend themselves to the chief features of the game, particularly since they have no Joker, which is the most important card in Euchre.
The pips of the Rod and Cup suits indicate that which comes from within or at home.
The pips are Books, Winepots, Cups, and Printer's Balls.
The fragments of the second pack, that apparently belong to the same period, closely resemble those with which we are familiar, since they are not Tarots but bear the pips invented by the French, and M.
The pips of the Money and Sword suits indicate that which comes from outside or abroad.
We had succeeded in raising several young orange trees from the pips she had brought in her basket; and they promised to supply us with plenty of their luscious fruit.
Herbalists sell dried orangepips to be crushed to a powder and taken in the proportion of 1 teaspoonful to a cup of hot water.
Then cut out the spots very neatly and paste them on two of the blank cards, taking care to get the pips at the corners in the right positions.
The other method of preparing the cards (presuming that you do not wish to invest in several packs) is to float off the backs of a couple of cards, dry them, paste white paper on them and then stick pips on the paper.
Now you have to exchange that card for another with only three pips on it, the pips being diagonally across the card.
Repeat the experiment, but this time wash away the two corner pips at once, leaving only one pip in the centre of the card.
This action reduces the number of pips on the card to three, arranged diagonally across the face of the card.
Still, we tried another deal, by way of experiment--I wearing the ring; and even with the naked eye I was able to distinguish in every case the suit and pips of the card that was dealt me.
The pips of the fruit are large, often an inch over; and it attains a large size, weighing from three to four pounds.
The leaves of a dark brown, inclining to purple in the inside; fruit middle-sized and tun-shaped, and the pips or protuberances of the fruit larger and flatter than in the other kinds.
All the Pine plants which we have seen in France, and also in Italy, had this yellow sickly appearance; and the fruit produced was universally of small size; one of three pips is thought worth presenting to table.
Think PIPS Senior, as an Admiralty official, will be at the Court Ball with Madame PIPS.
In apple-pips or other substances the smell would not be given off until disengaged by some process for that purpose.
The pips of bitter apples are bigger, more numerous, and weigh about three times as much as those of sweet apples.
As to the contents of the stomach: “There was undigested flesh and a pulpy mass of which I could make nothing, and some portion of apple, but no pips either partially digested or undigested with the apple.
Norblad, Champneys, and myself had distinctly seen among the contents of the stomach some undigested apples, that the seeds or pips of the apple might give rise to the formation of prussic acid by distillation.
He pointed out that from all the medical evidence, it was proved that, that acid was contained not in the apple, but in the pip, and that pips were not found in the pulp in the deceased’s stomach.
If the apple-pips on which I operated had been macerated, I cannot say that I should have obtained more Prussian blue.
Did Mr. Cooper then apply a process which would set free prussic acid from apple-pips and other substances?
It was also proved that prussic acid had been obtained from the pips themselves only by a process of distillation, and was not produced by the mere natural process of digestion.
I am not prepared to say that the pips of this apple contained more prussic acid than others.
Let a party make up parcels of cards, beginning with a number of pips on any card, and then counting up to twelve with individual cards.
Thirdly, now, as the seven parcels are made up both of the pip cards and cards, it is evident that we have only to find the number of cards got at as above, to get the number of pips required.
First, this proves that there are 47 cards in the seven parcels made up of pips and cards.
Subtract the number of pip cards therefrom, deduct this last from the number made up of the number of parcels multiplied by 12, and the remainder will be the number of pips on the first cards.
It, and the Yellow Ingestrie, were the produce of two pips taken from the same cell of the core.
The dominoes are either held in the hand, or set on their sides on the table, so that the pips are visible to the player only.
The player holding the highest double then plays first, and then each plays in turn by placing a domino of the same number of pips to the domino played at either end when you both have played.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
