tarok

After dinner the real merriment began when we played a game of tarok, a sort of whist, and I can testify that to his linguistic shortcomings the Austrian Emperor added an inability to count, and pondered each card at length before playing it.

Watershed 2010

He enjoyed his rubbers of tarok, and in his later years especially it was a regular evening pastime.

Watershed 2010

After dinner the real merriment began when we played a game of tarok, a sort of whist, and I can testify that to his linguistic shortcomings the Austrian Emperor added an inability to count, and pondered each card at length before playing it.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

He enjoyed his rubbers of tarok, and in his later years especially it was a regular evening pastime.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

"Ah! this tarok-party would suffer a too great loss in you," said

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

Katharine II. was passionately fond of playing tarok, and she particularly liked that variety of the game which was later on named, after a celebrated Russian general, "Paskevics," and required four players.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

The latter was a distinguished leader of troops -- in petto -- and as a tarok-player without equal.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

[Footnote: "Volat" is an expression used in tarok to denote that no tricks have been made by an opponent.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

The card next to the highest in tarok.]; upon which the Czarina made the bon mot that Karr allowed himself twice to lose his XXI. (referring to twenty-one guns), which bon mot caused great merriment at the Russian

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871