If one or more sixes or fives are thrown the first time they may be reserved, the other throws being made with the dice that are left.
The object is to throw three sixes = 18 or as near that number as possible, the highest throw winning, or, when drinks are to be paid for, the lowest throw losing.
Everything seemed to be at sixes and sevens in the old house that night.
Be this as it may, hence is certainly derived the phrase to be at sixes and sevens, to be in great confusion.
But things are all so at sixes and sevens among us all that a fellow can't go and do just what he would like.
Indeed, they are at sixes and sevens; you may well say that.
Footnote 145: The Northern division by threes and sixes is responsible, of course, for the six 'sheaddings' of the Isle of Man.
The least they pretended was that they were going to cut Lowick Parish into sixes and sevens.
But the ten sixes are exactly as likely to have been really thrown as the other series.
The example of a coincidence selected by D’Alembert, that of sixes thrown on a pair of dice ten times in succession, belongs to this sort of cases rather than to such as Laplace’s.
Another person then tries them in our absence, and assures us that he threw sixes ten times in succession.
At an early hour the next morning, three sixes (which had been placed during the night within 250 yards of the pickets) began to play upon us, but with little effect.
There were thirty of them, and they all came down the steep, ladder-like steps by ones and twos and threes and sixes and sevens.
Very soon came the hounds--by ones and twos and threes and sixes and sevens--and they also were going slowly and seemed very tired.
A wager boat will be too unsteady, and will retard his practice; 'skiffs' are usually to be obtained only as teach boats with work at sixes and sevens.
Of the races at the school in old times, upper sixes was the great event.
Both city and State have declared themselves in favor of an upstream major reservoir at Sixes Bridge, also a 1963 proposal.
Republished in the volume, Sixes and Sevens (1911), by O.
Mr. Rattler did try to comfort me the other day by saying that everything was at sixes and sevens, and I really took it almost as a compliment to be spoken to.
He regarded his fate as does a card-player who day after day holds sixes and sevens when other men have the aces and kings.
Sixes and Sevens" contains an excellent tale of a burglar and a citizen who fraternize, in a comic midnight interview, on the score of their common sufferings from rheumatism.
Them nine-pound balls punch, but the sixes don't make a mark worth a cent.
Anything smaller'n sixeswould be like pelting us with apples.
The magnets, of course, attract the iron discs, drawing them on to the table, and the sixes being upon the opposite sides of the dice naturally fall uppermost.
Sometimes, of course, only two pips will be thrown; sometimes both sixes will come uppermost, making twelve pips together.
This puts the other players off the scent, at the same time insuring three sixes for the sharp.
If he gives his dupe a pair which can be made to fall both sixes or both aces, the sharp can force his opponent to throw a crab every time if he chooses to do so.
But before the people--for the reason that they had--counted by sixes and twelves.
But before the people the--by the reason that they had--counted by sixes and twelves.
Thruth's best;--you see both himself and his wife neglected their business in the beginning, so that everything went at sixes and sevens.
It is perfectly dreadful to feel all your strength going and to know that things are at sixes and sevens, and however hard you try you cannot put them right.
There was a large nursery upstairs, where everything at the present moment was, as Effie's mother had said, at sixes and sevens.
Munn jumped from the cab, made a ramp of two-by-sixes and jockeyed the building onto the two-by-sixes until it skidded safely to the ground beside the hen house.
And this Wednesday most certainly was the day when matters were "at sixes and sevens" for Dorothy Kenway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
