Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance.
1 You initiated the banker's clerk into the mysteries of card - playing and billiards.
2 It gives anyone with a little tact an opportunity for stopping card - playing .
3 That evening we spent together at Johnson's office in drinking and card-playing .
4 Being an invalid as you see, I have no amusement but card - playing .
5 There was hard drinking, horse-racing, and card - playing , and waste of substance generally.
6 That there be no begging, swearing, gaming, card - playing , quarrelling, or universal conversation.
7 Sunday afternoons were the big gambling and card - playing times in our semi-rural neighbourhood.
8 The Countess was a card - playing old cat; Lady Fanny was a desperate flirt.
9 It is a violation of etiquette to propose card - playing in another person's house.
10 These books may be said to embody a science of card - playing .
11 We weren't going to be put off by a bunch of card - playing jerks.
12 I recalled my mental states from the midnight prayer to the foolish card - playing .
13 The card - playing travellers had opened the door of the carriage.
14 The year 1648 was the era of card - playing at court.
15 They came, her card - playing friends assured her, with impeccable credentials.
16 Gendron was not badly wounded, and sat up to look on at the card-playing .
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