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Significados de card-playing en inglés

Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance.

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Uso de card-playing en inglés
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You initiated the banker's clerk into the mysteries of card-playing and billiards.
Run to Earth: A Novel
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It gives anyone with a little tact an opportunity for stopping card-playing.
Certain Personal Matters
3
That evening we spent together at Johnson's office in drinking and card-playing.
The Burglar's Fate, and The Detectives
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Being an invalid as you see, I have no amusement but card-playing.
The Secret Passage
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There was hard drinking, horse-racing, and card-playing, and waste of substance generally.
Hodge and His Masters
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That there be no begging, swearing, gaming, card-playing, quarrelling, or universal conversation.
Elizabeth Fry
7
Sunday afternoons were the big gambling and card-playing times in our semi-rural neighbourhood.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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The Countess was a card-playing old cat; Lady Fanny was a desperate flirt.
The Virginians
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It is a violation of etiquette to propose card-playing in another person's house.
Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society / A condensed but t...
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These books may be said to embody a science of card-playing.
The Navy as a Fighting Machine
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We weren't going to be put off by a bunch of card-playing jerks.
Seven up
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I recalled my mental states from the midnight prayer to the foolish card-playing.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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The card-playing travellers had opened the door of the carriage.
Max
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The year 1648 was the era of card-playing at court.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)
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They came, her card-playing friends assured her, with impeccable credentials.
Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
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Gendron was not badly wounded, and sat up to look on at the card-playing.
Young Captain Jack; Or, The Son of a Soldier
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