Games

Examples

• We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I'd like to play a few more games at billiards with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The captain was having a great success with finger games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No games to-morrow! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• No, no; we both hate silent games that only keep one's hands employed, don't we? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When you were carrying on some games up at the top of the house. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolics of any kind, and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A few days only elapsed, however, before we were dragged forth from our dungeon for the great games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I have got the run of Queer Street now, and you shall see some games there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Have games till it's cooler. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• That you will be thrown to the wild calots [dogs] in the great arena as soon as the hordes have assembled for the yearly games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Agnes played the piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mankind has certainly come nearer to justifying Mr. Chesterton's observation that one of its favorite games is called Cheat the Prophet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Naturally this astonished me very much, as he is a man who cares little or nothing for the ordinary games, with the single exception of parcheesi, of which he is very fond. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What were all the games of chance he had ever played compared to this one? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I couldn't spend my time playing her games. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There's a many games, Miss Abbey, in which there's chance, but there's a many others in which there's skill too, mixed along with it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Billiards was the game of the aristocracy and the Puritan hated not only the aristocrat, but the style and color of his clothes, the cut of his hair, as well as the games he played. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Both results may be seen in some types of kindergarten games where the idea of play is so highly symbolic that only the adult is conscious of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else's college. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There were several card games going on. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In short, said Sydney, this is a desperate time, when desperate games are played for desperate stakes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A still more important link of Hellenic union was the Olympian games that were held every four years at Olympia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cities and factories, schools and homes, theaters and games, manners and thought will have to be transformed before sex can find a better expression. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If ever there was a symptom that this nation needed leisure and direct participation in games, it is that poor scrawny substitute for joy--the baseball extra. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Tis well, replied the one so addressed, rising and approaching my couch, he should render rare sport for the great games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And so your family has games in the kitchen to-night, my dear, has they? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I have brought a strange creature wearing the metal of a Thark whom it is my pleasure to have battle with a wild thoat at the great games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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