thirteener

And when, at the last, holding only a thirteener and a fork in Clubs, he led the losing card of the latter, she could endure the agony no longer.

In Her Own Right John Reed Scott

Said McHale of The Sphere, who, having been stuck with the queen of spades -- that most unlucky thirteener -- twice in succession, was retiring on his losses, to Mallory of The Ledger who had just come in:

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

I was a thirteener, and must, whether or no, go over to the next column, like the odd figure you carry along when you do a sum in addition.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

Sir, says I, his lordship is one of the flinty-hearted ones, and devil a thirteener will he forgive you -- but, my lord, it will utterly ruin sir Rowland to replace it.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Samuel James Arnold 1813

'But now that he was in luck, he would as soon play for a hundred guineas as for a thirteener.'

Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

Nevertheless, forasmuch as by such occupancy an ill-tempered sarcasm might charge it with conceit; know then that my humbler meaning here is to put it lowest and last, even in the place of wooden-spoon; for this also (being mindful of the twelve apostle-spoons from old time antecedent) is a legitimate thirteener: and so, while in extricating my muse from the folly of serenading a non-existent king, I have candidly avowed the general selfishness of printing, believe that, in this avowal, I take the lowest seat, so well befitting one of whom it may ungraciously be asked, Where do fools buy their logic?

An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

Nevertheless, forasmuch as by such occupancy an ill-tempered sarcasm might charge it with conceit; know then that my humbler meaning here is to put it lowest and last, even in the place of wooden-spoon; for this also (being mindful of the twelve apostle-spoons from old time antecedent) is a legitimate thirteener: and so, while in extricating my muse from the folly of serenading a non-existent king, I have candidly avowed the general selfishness of printing, believe that, in this avowal, I take the lowest seat, so well befitting one of whom it may ungraciously be asked, Where do fools buy their logic?

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849