There is an axe in the theatre," continued Poole; "and you might take the kitchenpoker for yourself.
Great quantities of liquor were being consumed at the hotel bar, poker games were in full blast, and there was a cemetery handy.
He took the train going East according to schedule, and found Darcy playing pokerin the smoking car.
Well, I reckon I've played my last game of poker in Nevada City.
I found a letter you had dropped; that brought me to Poker Flat.
Takes off his coat, seizes poker from grate, and approaches safe.
Not more strange than that I should find Harry York, the spendthrift of Poker Flat, the rich and respected Mr. York, produce merchant of San Francisco.
Last Sabbath Brother Hawkins of Poker Flat related with touching effect the story of your prodigal to an assemblage of over two hundred miners.
He will remember Jim Parker,--Limping Jim, of Poker Flat.
Put a white-hot poker into a box of dynamite, and it will only burn; but let the poker cool down until it's only red-hot and the dynamite will explode.
With that axe and poker an old woman killed a little boy.
Frankly, Captain, I was playing a little poker in the room behind where the desk is.
Could I shrink myself back to my previous dimensions, I could once again fit into the world of job and Charlotte and blue draperies and a yellow kitchen and the Saturday night mixed poker game with our crowd.
Beware of playing cards with strangers who wish to start a friendly game of euchre which is subsequently changed to draw-poker or some other seductive and costly amusement.
Poker was all there was in that God-forsaken desert to save a man's reason, Batty declared, so they played it from breakfast till bed-time.
A seasoned old poker player like you stooping to pick up the joker!
Jimmy was moving a table into the shadow of the tents, in order that the daily game of poker might begin.
Evan sneaked in quietly and had learned something about poker before he was noticed.
If he had even been able to take a friend out to the theatre occasionally, those cool spring nights, without borrowing the money, would penny poker have so interested him?
He took the memorandum he had written above the bank, and dealing out a poker hand to four imaginary players and himself, proceeded to create flushes and other combinations.
Being without the money to participate much in a city's recreation, he welcomed the opportunity of getting something for nothing, which it seemed he would do in an odd game of poker at one penny ante.
I haven't got any to throw away," replied Nelson, annoyed that on top of his recent surrender to poker someone should try to coax him into playing the races.
Evan made a sudden resolution that he not only would not bet with them that day but that he would pass up the poker game that night: it would show them that he had a mind of his own, even though he did want to be sociable.
Sikes, seizing the poker in one hand, and deliberately opening with the other a large clasp-knife, which he drew from his pocket.
The Sergeant gives thepoker a savage twist; He is as purple as the cooling horseshoes.
The old Sergeant seizes a red-hot poker And advances, brandishing it, into the shadows.
John Gordon did make an appointment to meet Mr Poker in the city later on in the day, and then was left together with Mr Whittlestaff at the club.
He knew Poker & Hodge to be moneyed men, or to be men, at any rate, in command of money.
Let Poker & Hodge have them, and I shall bless you for ever.
Poker & Hodge will buy your shares for the sum named.
There is Mr Poker in a hansom cab outside, and ready to go with you to the bank at once, as the matter is rather pressing.
Poker & Hodge have the money down, and when I have arranged the sale, will undertake to give me the agency at one per cent on the whole take for three years certain.
Poker is a science; the highest court in Texas has said so, and I want some little show for my interest in that speckled egg.
As soon as supper was over and the first guard had taken the herd, the poker game opened, each man being given ten beans for chips.
A good stiff pokeresque lyric, and your characterization of the poker as the 'Warder of the Grate' gives it a flavor of romance.
I informed her in turn that Invern hated poker too much to run a rival establishment under the same roof.
Besides, he was only obliging his confrère, the music-critic who had a poker party on at his house.
No doubt in the drawing-room, or, perhaps, Godard has been drawn into the poker game.
He could hear the poker players in Madame's room, but he had no stomach for cards and he went to his own glass door.
Best pokerplayer down there, and that's saying something.
The table had held a poker game which seemed to have been interrupted suddenly.
Sawtell was in another chair a little distant, keeping one eye on a red-hot poker in the coals, the other on two bound men on the floor.
Sawtell nodded, and the former gambler grabbed the poker in lean fingers and shoved it deep among the red-hot coals.
At the poker table he paused and examined a few of the cards.
If you find that it is a fairy in the cradle, take the red-hot poker and cram it down his ugly throat, and you will not have much trouble with him after that, I promise you.
Kid Rickard, his sullen eyes wide with their pain, lay half under a poker table.
But after Kid Rickard's jarring mirth it was strangely still in the Casa Blanca; no noise of clicking chips bespeaking a poker game, no loud-voiced babble, no sound of a man walking across the bare floor.
Cecily, in all good faith; 'there's sure to be a red-hot poker in the kitchen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
