It shuffles the stars and planets to see what may chance from their combinations, and careless of the consequence, from everlasting to everlasting it shuffles and plays, and shuffles and plays again.
The croupier shuffles the cards, and then passes them on, each player having the right to shuffle in turn.
When it is ascertained who is to deal, the player on his left shuffles the cards, and the dealer may shuffle them after him if he chooses.
Where the first mentioned rule prevails, the pone collects the cards thrown up at the end of each hand, and shuffles them in readiness for the {163} use of the dealer, but does not hand them to him till the first supply is exhausted.
In taking up the pack of cards, the juggler, with a pretended awkwardness, shuffles the cards in such a manner, that many of them are turned face to face.
To facilitate this manoeuvre, the rogue takes care to bend the cards whilst he shuffles them.
The adversary shuffles the cards, and, that he shall not notice the diminution of the pack, you distract his attention by an animated conversation.
If we except the improved methods of 'stocking' and so on, which have resulted from the introduction of new shuffles and certain methods of preparing the cards, there are hardly any new developments to record.
At the present day the foregoing trickeries would be inadmissible owing to the fact that only the most juvenile card players would ever use the form ofshuffles they involve.
This one instance will serve to give the reader the basis of all the othershuffles in which the cards are arranged.
This fine advantage works fine single handed, or when the left-hand man shuffles and offers the cards to be cut.
This advantage works fine single-handed, or when the left-hand man shufflesand offers the cards to be cut.
In this position they are held by the left finger and thumb, whilst the right hand shuffles the second packet into the cards remaining on the table.
Of the first kind of these shuffles there is a great variety.
The principal shuffles of modern times are three in number:-- 1.
The last of the three kinds of false shuffles enumerated is of course the most generally useful in almost any game.
With these higher class shuffles then, it is evident that more improved methods of manipulation must be adopted to render them amenable to the purposes of cheating.
If it swings from the centre the bar is rounding, while if it shuffles across first at one end and then at the other the bar is hollow in its length and we must find at which end of the bar this spring exists.
The Ghost shuffles the cards on the table, then lays down the pack in front of Lon.
Joe smiles to himself and crosses his arms and shuffles his feet as he looks towards Kezia.
He receives his orders, and then shuffles back again.
If a servant wishes to communicate with his master, he falls, not on his knees, but on his haunches, and in this posture shuffles forward till he comes behind his chair, and meekly whispers a word into his ear.
She spent the forenoon on board, and was introduced to Kendall and Shuffles and their ladies.
Kendall or Shuffles rewarded each of them with a few skillings for the service.
Shuffles had not come into possession of any inheritance yet, but his father was as liberal as he was wealthy, and gave his son an annual allowance, which enabled him to marry and keep a yacht.
Captains Kendall and Shuffles procured carriages, for the ladies were not able to walk so far.
Shuffles had not been so fortunate as Paul in finding needy graduates of the Academy to officer his yacht, and a fat old shipmaster served as first officer in the Feodora, while the second mate was a young tar, not yet of age.
Why, as Kendall and Shufflesdo it--in a yacht, with no Latin and geometry to bother their heads, and no decks to wash down on a cold morning.
The conjurer brings forward a pack of cards, shuffles the cards with their faces towards the audience, and asks someone in the audience to take a card and to place it on the top of the pack.
The dealer first takes six packs of cards, shuffles them, and distributes them in various parcels to the various punters or players round the table, to shuffle and mix.
He then finally shuffles them, and takes and places the end cards into various parts of the three hundred and twelve cards, until he meets with a court card, which he must place upright at the end.
This figure starts into nervous life at their appearance, and, muttering something inaudible in a heavy indistinct tone, shuffles away from them, and is lost to sight round a corner of the corridor.
She shuffles over to ANNA'S table and sits down opposite her.
Then before he can speak, she shuffles hurriedly past him into the bar, beckoning him to follow her.
His hair is thin and gray, and he shufflesalong on a couple of poor old shanks, which will never look any stouter unless it be under the influence of a fit of the gout.
The player who made the successful guess now picks up the game-reeds and behind his back shuffles and divides them.
He mixes up the disks, hides them, shuffles the piles until another guess is made.
When the washing is finished he slings his nurses up to his neck with his trunk, or gives them a "leg up" behind in the friendly fashion peculiar to him, and shuffles back to the serai or yard to be dressed.
Zoe shuffles the old, black, greasy cards, allows Manya to cut, then deals, having first spat upon her fingers.
Shuffles cards grandly and gives them to LIGE to cut.
DAVE shuffles a few steps and the two begin to sing.
The father shuffles up into his usual position, the mother rises by slow and reluctant stages, as though apologetically, and finally stirs the chick several times with her bill till at last he rouses.
When he does address the ball he shuffles his feet for a moment or two, then pauses, and scans the horizon in a suspicious sort of way, as if he had been expecting it to play some sort of a trick on him when he was not looking.
He shuffles his feet once more, then raises his club.
How comes it to pass that our Author shuffles the two French Dutchesses together?
These two sets being before the performer, he takes one, shuffles it well, and lets a person take a card.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuffles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
