hazard-table

George Selwyn, seeing him toss about bank-bills at the hazard-table, said, "How easily the Speaker passes the money-bills!"

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

The Irish Speaker Mr. Ponsonby has been reposing himself at Newmarket: George Selwyn, seeing him toss about bank-bills at the hazard-table said, “How easily the Speaker passes the money-bills!”

Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

The men who keep the hazard-table at the Duke de Gesvres 'pay him twelve guineas each night for the privilege.

Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

A young man, having suddenly heired a large property, sits at the hazard-table, and takes up in a dice-box the estate won by a father's lifetime sweat, and shakes it, and tosses it away.

The Abominations of Modern Society 1867

Such money as he gained when he would condescend to work was quickly swept from him at the hazard-table.

Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

Wales, who after all, may live these twenty years, and at the end can scarce leave me enough for a week's ill luck at the hazard-table?

Eugene Aram — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I wonder whether Pascal's curious imagination ever presented to him in sleep his convert, in the future state, shaken out of a red-hot dice-box upon a red-hot hazard-table, as perhaps he might have been, if Dante had been the later of the two.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Shall I have any shame in confessing that I preferred their society, a society not unfamiliar to me, to the dull and solitary life that I might have led in tending my old bed-ridden relation in Wales, who after all, may live these twenty years, and at the end can scarce leave me enough for a week's ill luck at the hazard-table?

Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

By the rules of the house he was entitled to a bonus on every transfer of property at the hazard-table; and he made in the course of three days, up - wards of Three hundred pounds!

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Before her friends would suffer me to take possession of her fortune, they required from me a solemn oath against gambling: so I was compelled to abjure the hazard-table and the turf, the only two objects in life that could keep me awake.

Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808