Card game of German origin.
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Examples for "old maid "
Examples for "old maid "
1 They began almost to suspect the probity of the poor old maid .
2 She will not be the old maid of the family after all.
3 Compared to that, being an old maid looks mighty good, believe me.
4 There was no love lost between the old maid and her relatives.
5 The chevalier and the old maid , believing themselves alone, were talking aloud.
1 If black Peter get drowned, easily find better man to take him place.
2 After a while the carousing bandits called for what they called " Black Peter . "
3 I had lost my hold on Black Peter and was stranded in London without a shilling.
4 They played beggar-my-neighbor and Black Peter .
5 A celebration by the Dutch Society of the feast of Black Peter in December has upset fellow students.
6 VI.-TheAdventure of Black Peter .
7 Is he the man who hobnobbed in rum and water with Black Peter in the dead of the night?
8 Anyhow, I'd as soon die with a rope round my neck as with Black Peter 's knife in my heart.
9 Black Peter , a portmanteau.
10 He leaves the magnificent society of Jack Armstrong, and Black Peter , and Red Indians, to mix with the commonplace citizens of London-asa pastrycook!
11 "But I say, grandmother, you're Black Peter ! "
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