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Gaming table   /gˈeɪmɪŋ tˈeɪbəl/   Listen
Gaming table

noun
1.
A table used for gambling; may be equipped with a gameboard and slots for chips.





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"Gaming table" Quotes from Famous Books



... beam. But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not a less salutary stream. No, our British heroes are oftener sent from the gaming table than from the plough; and their passions have been rather inflamed by hanging with dumb suspense on the turn of a die, than sublimated by panting after the adventurous march of virtue ...
— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]
... In Italy, somewhere, or France—not far from a gaming table, you may be sure. But I know nothing very exactly, as he does not correspond with me, and that letter of this morning is the first I have received from my father ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... were sensible. I shall follow your example. I will bid you good night. I seem to be in luck, and will try my fortune at the gaming table." ...
— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger
... estate, the beau ideal of a man of honor, and a gentleman. By neither of these terms, do I mean that fashionable personage whose god is himself, who would seduce his friend's wife or sister, or strip him of his last farthing at a gaming table, and then shoot him through the head, by way of making amends; or who scrupulously discharges all gambling and betting debts; utterly neglecting those of the poor tradesman, or industrious mechanic, but the "justum et tenacem ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... year Walpole had written to Sir Horace Mann: "Mr. Fox is the first figure in all the places I have mentioned, the hero in Parliament, at the gaming table, at Newmarket." The sentence with which Selwyn, half angry and half amused, concludes the last letter of 1781, emphasises the extraordinary and commanding position which Fox held at this critical moment ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue


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