cardtable

The ball of newspaper was in the corner with the cheap cardtable over it, three-ply, go up a treat.

The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

They'd given me the smallest cabin on the whole rig: one narrow bunk set in the wall like a niche at the crematorium where you put the urn, cheap cardtable and picnic chair, army mirror on a chain, tin-washbasin, no loo.

The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

Miss Halcombe and Mr Gilmore sat down together at the cardtable -- Mrs Vesey took her customary chair.

The Woman in White 1860

She kept her place at the piano, and I kept mine at the cardtable.

The Woman in White 1860

Mrs. Hazeldean glanced at the parson and smiled; but she gave the signal to the captain, and the bell was rung, lights were brought in, the curtains let down; in a few moments more, the group had collected round the cardtable.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Mrs. Hazeldean glanced at the parson and smiled; but she gave the signal to the captain, and the bell was rung, lights were brought in, the curtains let down; in a few moments more, the group had collected round the cardtable.

My Novel — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

This bold manoeuvre, a device of the Sous-prefet's, was repeated with so much skill that Dinah never suspected her slaves of escaping to the prison yard, so to speak, of the cardtable; and they would leave her one of the younger functionaries to harry.

Parisians in the Country Honor�� de Balzac 1824

This bold manoeuvre, a device of the Sous-prefet's, was repeated with so much skill that Dinah never suspected her slaves of escaping to the prison yard, so to speak, of the cardtable; and they would leave her one of the younger functionaries to harry.

The Muse of the Department Honor�� de Balzac 1824

A gloomy day threw him into the horrors! and a ride in the morning, and the cardtable in the afternoon, were necessary to his very existence.

Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune 1787