A card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.
Ещё 1 Breakfast, whist ; lunch, whist ; dinner, whist ; supper, whist ; and then to bed.
2 In the drawing-room three whist - tables carry off the more elderly and grave.
3 The hour for whist had arrived; so he departed to play whist .
4 During this time the General played whist with Madame de la Roche-Jugan.
5 We played whist in the evening, and I went to bed late.
6 After dinner they had some music; Lord Roehampton would not play whist .
7 Aunt Saffronia proposed a rousing game of whist to pass the evening.
8 Anybody can play whist with four by honours in his own hands.
9 Sundry groups, in different corners, were beguiling the tedious hours at whist .
10 Late in the evening, after supper, they played whist in Emily's boudoir.
11 The only relaxations he allowed himself were fast driving and playing whist .
12 At the same moment, the whist - table broke up, and Cleveland approached Maltravers.
13 The remark was made before the party settled to the evening's whist .
14 A whist table would be made up for the Duchess of Kent.
15 Veronique now received her friends in her bedroom, where they played whist .
16 Having thus replenished his pockets he turned to the whist - table for amusement.
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