card-player

In the code devised by her late French mother Madeleine, who was a dedicated card-player, ‘Jack of Spades’ means treachery and danger.

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I have never been a good card-player; but on that occasion I was aware myself that I was playing excruciatingly badly.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

As she creaked into one of the wicker chairs she suddenly changed from the cigarette-rolling chaffing card-player to a woman dignified, reserved, commanding.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Afterwards she had adroitly to rid herself of the book, then to take part — a rather pale-eyed, distracted part — in the lively technical discussions that ensued; when each candidate was as long-winded on the theme of her success, or non-success, as a card-player on his hand at the end of a round.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

The card-player was an oldish fellow, not as thin as the Mayor or his sister, but thin.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

He could be domineering too, and he was a card-player, but she knew nothing of his family, nor of his home.

The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

How you have discovered me matters as little as how a card-player gets the ace of trumps.

The Crimson Blind

When Auction first took the place of Bridge as the paramount game in the club and social life of the scientific card-player of the United

Auction of To-day Milton C. Work

It is safe to say that, because of his experience, card-playing will never be tolerated in that happy little family, and my earnest prayer as I relate this is that my reader, if a card-player, may consider this: "If meat [card-playing] make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh [no more play cards] while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend."

Fifteen Years with the Outcast

And, with the air of a card-player who trumps his opponent's ace, he placed on the pouch a pipe.

The Pothunters 1928