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Example sentences for "play cards"

  • More strictly speaking, I had noticed him when, on a previous occasion, he had come to play cards here, and I had followed him home.

  • Never at any time is the household wholly at rest, for always there are people sitting up to play cards.

  • It was this way: three of the boys came to my room to play cards--because their rooms were watched.

  • And I stole a deck of cards from the house and we went back in the stable; and that is the way I came to learn how to play cards.

  • My father did not think it was any harm to play cards in the parlor every night.

  • We had a young negro that used to wait on the ladies in the parlor, and he told me one time, "You steal a deck of cards and I will show you how to play cards.

  • They did not begin to play cards, to a certain extent from politeness, until the staff officers had left the room.

  • What then do you do with your money if you don't play cards?

  • After supper they sat down to play cards again.

  • They drank champagne, then took to vodka and began to play cards.

  • They lost no time, but sat down at once to play cards.

  • Having taken tea and kissed Anninka on the forehead, Yudushka crept back into his den, while Anninka went into Yevpraksia's room to play cards.

  • If we want to play a little game of cards, we play cards; if we want to have some hot tea, well, then we have tea.

  • But can't you give a party and invite Lord George and Hay, and then get them to play cards.

  • In that case I should advise you to play cards no more.

  • It was like her never to think of sitting elsewhere than in the old place--at her husband's side by the open window--after beginning to play cards.

  • But, my dear madam, you don't know how to play cards, do you?

  • Would you like to play cards, to kill time?

  • These complaints soon reached the ears of the gentlemen who had remained to play cards.


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