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... striking, was that the same open indulgence in gaming, that connects its name with " cards and dice, sharks and pigeons, seducing confederates and infatuated dupes," still continues. " The players continue their occupation in death-like silence, undisturbed...

Slight Reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a Corner of Italy - עמוד 53
מאת Mrs. Mary Boddington - 1834
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

1834 - 590 דפים

...continue their occupation in death-like silence, undisturbed by the buz or the gaze of the lookers-on ; not a sound was heard but the rattle of the heaped-up...; nor was the smallest anxiety or emotion visible in any countenance." This utter silence — this calmness of death, where the mental emotion is too...

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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, כרך 42

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 564 דפים

...continue their occupation in death-like silence, undisturbed by the buz or the gaze of the lookers-on ; not a sound was heard but the rattle of the heaped-up...; nor was the smallest anxiety or emotion visible in any countenance." This utter silence— this calmness of death, where the mental emotion is too...

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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, כרך 42

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 566 דפים

...silence, undisturbed by the buz or the gaze of the lookers-on ; not a sound was heard but the i -;ittle of the heaped-up money, as it was passed from one...; nor was the smallest anxiety or emotion visible in any countenance." This utter silence— this calmness of death, where the mental emotion is too...

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