Use cards in a sentence
Sentences starting with cards
- Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. [2]
- Cards for the house-warming had been out for two weeks, and the event was near. [4]
Sentences ending with cards
- The assembly hall was filled when we arrived, aglow with candles and a-tremble with music, the powder already flying, and the tables in the recesses at either end surrounded by those at the cards. [9]
- In vain he was asked to play cards. [11]
- Willie Haslam's funeral was a public function: he was young, innocent-looking, handsome, and the people did not know what Pierre would not tell now--that he had cheated grossly at cards. [11]
- I have reason to believe that when the wages of mechanics are raised to eight and ten dollars a day, the workmen will not come at all: they will merely send their cards. [4]
- My particular friend Timmins was just shuffling the cards. [4]
- I found the three of them drinking in the hall, the punch spilled over the table, and staining the cards. [9]
- There's one in there"--he nodded towards the Castle-- "that owes me money at cards. [11]
- He laughed at their gravity, for no gravity can equal that of gentlemen who play with stacked cards. [9]
- As I turned the one corner, smoking, Ollendorff turned the other with his bottle to his lips, and between us sat unconscious Ballou deep in a game of "solitaire" with the old greasy cards! [5]
- Here he had taken his young wife, and they used to sit together, so he said, in the sunny oriel over the water, and he had sworn to give up the cards. [9]
Short sentences using cards
- Cards, speculation, what's the difference? [11]
- Give me five cards. [5]
- Cards, of course. [11]
- No cards. [5]
Sentences containing cards two or more times
- What is gained, he asks, by leaving cards with all these people and receiving their cards? [4]
More example sentences with the word cards in them
- There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
- One bright morning, when Nick and I were playing cards, we heard some one mounting the stairs, and to my surprise and embarrassment I beheld Monsieur de St. Gre emerging on the gallery. [9]
- Cards, law-breaking--these are what I have done; but these are not what I have preached. [11]
- Some of them were sipping wine, others were playing cards, others chess, other groups were chatting together, and many were smoking cigarettes while they waited for the coming duels. [5]
- You see you were playing with marked cards, and that is embarrassing. [11]
- Twenty, twenty-five cards were drawn, and then Pierre paused. [11]
- When the cards were dealt, with but one point for either to gain, and so win and save his life, there was a slight pause before the two took them up. [11]
- Before the cards were dealt, he made a sign upon his breast and forehead. [11]
- All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored up against him. [2]
- He dressed exquisitely, was inclined to the Polignac party, took his ease everywhere, had a knowledge of cards and courts, and little else. [9]
- Her mobile mind wandered swiftly from lofty to petty things; she seized the cards to see whether fate would unite her to Zorrillo or to Ulrich, and the red ten, which represented herself, lay close beside the green knave, Pasquale. [10]
- If Mr. Carvel walks out of an evening, Grafton's arm is ever ready, and my uncle and his worthy lady are eager to take a hand at cards before supper. [9]
- And there's no use in putting our cards on the table at the beginning. [9]
- Pierre instantly picked up the cards, with an air of cool satisfaction. [11]
- And we lost two packs of cards out of the window. [9]
- But the only trouble with lying is, that the demand becomes so great you can't keep all the cards in your head, and then the one you forget does you. [11]
- I had lost track of the cards, and knew I was losing prodigiously. [9]
- No man ought to play cards who hasn't a fortune; and my fortune, I'm sorry to say, is only my face! [11]
- You forced him to die alone with your sneering face, while your shrew of a wife counted cards downstairs. [9]
- At first Philip thought he would die, and forswore wine and cards, and some other things the taste for which he had cultivated, and likewise worse vices that had come to him by nature. [9]
- It was with this man--Leonard Mallow, eldest son of Lord Mallow--that Dyck, with three others, played cards one afternoon. [11]
- All the hidden things in his face seemed to open out into a swift shrewdness and dry candour when he was in his mood of "laying all the cards upon the table. [11]
- Without a word they went upon that platform, shaped like an altar, and Pierre at once drew out a pack of cards, shuffling them with his mittened hands. [11]
- The speakers whom they had heard were two men, who had a pack of cards and some silver money between them, while upon the screen itself the games they had played were scored in chalk. [12]
- The people group themselves about the decks in their snowy white linen, and read, smoke, sew, play cards, talk, nap, and so on. [5]
- I didn't answer them--I just sent him two post cards with no writing on except the address--just pictures. [9]
- I sat all the time in this same place at this table, chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the same way. [2]
- Everything was similar: the ladies' subtle talk, the cards, the general raising his voice at the card table, and the samovar and the tea cakes; only one thing was lacking that he had always seen at the evening parties he wished to imitate. [2]
- Their cards preserve the intimacy and keep the acquaintanceship intact. [5]
- It automatically punches the holes in the jacquard cards, and does it with mathematical accuracy. [5]
- Once inside, in the half light of a narrow hallway, a variety of noises greeted our ears,--laughter from above and below, interspersed with oaths; the click of billiard balls, and the occasional hammering of a pack of cards on a bare table before the shuffle. [9]
- A table in the corner, where Lula Chandos had insisted on playing bridge, was covered with scattered cards and some bills, a decanter of whiskey, two soda bottles, and two glasses. [9]
- The woman dealt the cards silently, with trembling hands, but Ulrich thought: "Now she will try to sound me, and a thousand to one will do everything in her power to disgust me with desiring the Eletto's baton. [10]
- She was arranging the cards neatly on the table. [9]
- Do you take the cards away from them? [5]
- At night, by the camp-fire, we played euchre and seven-up to strengthen the mind--and played them with cards so greasy and defaced that only a whole summer's acquaintance with them could enable the student to tell the ace of clubs from the jack of diamonds. [5]
- Sergeant Fones saw that; but he walked to where Aleck stood, with his unplayed cards still in his hand, and, laying a hand on his shoulder, said, "Come with me. [11]
- A man like that always exposes his cards, sooner or later. [5]
- Don't the cards tell you, that he is dead? [10]
- But Alixe, the sweetest soul France ever gave the world, could not know all I knew; guessing only at heavy carousals, cards, song, and raillery, with far-off hints of feet lighter than fit in cavalry boots dancing among the glasses on the table. [11]
- He could have stacked the cards, but he did not do so; deft as he was he might have cheated even the vigilant eyes about him, but it was not so; he played as squarely as a novice. [11]
- You lose them sometimes because you want to work at something else; sometimes because, as in cards, you are throwing a few away to save the whole game. [11]
- He had yet some cards to play, and Achmet and Higli--and another very high and great--might be delivered over to Kaid's deadly purposes rather than himself tomorrow. [11]
- He gets two soldier- engineers, one an Italian who murdered his wife in Italy twenty years ago, and one a British officer that cheated at cards and had to go, and we've got defences that'll take some negotiating. [11]
- Now--' 'My dear sir, will you put down those cards? [5]
- To see both sides is indeed the requisite of a great lawyer, but to see the opposite side only in order to win, as in looking over an opponent's hand in a game of cards. [4]
- Then I will show you all the cards in the pack. [11]
- Mica was the shining object of most "prospecting," but gold was also on the cards. [4]
- Polly's prejudiced, and she won't let me put it in here; but I'm playing my cards to get it adopted in the President's house, and then it'll go--don't you doubt it. [5]
- I think I see the little cloud in the horizon, with a silvery lining to it, which may end in a rain of cards tied round with white ribbons. [6]
- What should we say of men if they consumed half their time in paying formal calls upon each other merely for the sake of paying calls, and were low-spirited if they did not receive as many cards as they had dealt out to society? [4]
- No light burned save that in the binnacle, and all hands, except the watch, were below at supper and at cards. [11]
- He bowed carelessly, sat him down, and began to shuffle the cards, while I picked up the miniature and walked out of the room. [9]
- She whispered and said, "Put up those wicked cards this minute!--two pair and a jack, you numskull, and the other fellow's got a flush! [5]
- Seated at a rude table was Lamarque himself, his hoary head bent over the cards he held in his hand. [9]
- Mr. Ballou made remarks of similar purport, and began the reform he could not live to continue, by throwing away the ancient pack of cards that had solaced our captivity during the flood and made it bearable. [5]
- Ever since she reached Augsburg, an inner voice had told her--and old Brigitta's cards confirmed it--that the destiny of her life would be decided here, and he alone held her weal and woe in his hand. [10]
- It was a quarrel over cards, an' Greevy was drunk, an' followed Clint out into the prairie in the night and shot him like a coyote. [11]
- We toyed with politics, with simplicity, we wasted the land, we played cards as our coaches passed through famine-stricken villages. [9]
- Yes, it's as plain as the marks upon the cards. [12]
- At night, Shon, Pierre, and Lazenby were seated about the table in the common-room, the cards lying dealt before them, waiting for the Factor to come. [11]
- On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind Pierre was very fond of. [2]
- And some one pays for the candles and the cards. [11]
- He took a pack of cards that lay on the table and began to lay them out for a game of patience. [2]
- So we sent out our cards to a few hundreds of persons,--those who we thought might like invitations. [6]
- The cards go out flip, flip, on the table, and with a little soft scrape in the hands, and I hear Bigot's hound much a bone. [11]
- The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game. [5]
- He sank down on the chair opposite to her, his head bowed into his hands, his elbows on the table among the cards. [9]
- Anna Mikhaylovna, who often visited the Karagins, while playing cards with the mother made careful inquiries as to Julie's dowry (she was to have two estates in Penza and the Nizhegorod forests). [2]
- But the interest of the game isn't so much in the cards as in the men. [4]
- The younger ones occupied themselves as before, some playing cards (there was plenty of money, though there was no food), some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles. [2]
- When, on many occasions, pros and tons were equal in weight, she brought out the cards, and this oracle generally turned the scale. [10]
- The judge had not held such cards for years, and it was in vain that I talked to him of consequences. [9]
- In the old New England one could not in any other way so express his contempt of all holy and orderly life as by playing cards for amusement. [4]
- He said he never gambled, but still was satisfied that the meddling with cards in any way was immoral and injurious, and no man could be wholly pure and blemishless without eschewing them. [5]
- Even the old Neapolitan nurse, who was predicting future events from a pack of cards, dropped them and peered out. [10]
- I speedily lost my susceptible heart to a charming young lady named Leontine, who permitted me to be her Knight, and I fancied myself very unjustly treated when, soon after our separation, I received her betrothal cards. [10]
- All at once M'sieu' Doltaire throw down his cards, and say, 'Mine, Bigot! [11]
- They expected secret moves, and he laid his cards on the table. [11]
- She kept it looked up in her drawer, and studied it in the mornings with a pack of cards before her. [9]
- They did not look at one another; but each glanced at the revolver, then at the men nearest them, and lastly, for an instant, at the cards themselves, with their pasteboard faces of life and death turned downward. [11]
- The countess had long wished for such a box, but as she did not want to cry just then she glanced indifferently at the portrait and gave her attention chiefly to the box for cards. [2]
- There is a little attempt at a mall, with double rows of trees, under that wall, where lovers walk, and ragged, handsome urchins play the exciting game of fives, or sit in the dirt, gambling with cards for the Sorrento currency. [4]
- Dyck had at last secured sudden success in a scheme of his cards when Mallow asked with a sneer: "Did you learn that at your home in heaven? [11]
- Then she silently laid down the last cards, and asked: "Do you want to hear anything about a sweetheart? [10]
- Florette did not know herself, whether she owed the name of sibyl to her skill in telling fortunes by cards, or to her wise counsel. [10]
- But not till I've finished with it--not unless you win it from me at dice or cards. [11]
- Mr. Crozier did it with horses only, the other does it with cards and horses. [11]
- Dolokhov "killed," that is, beat, ten cards of Rostov's running. [2]
- They were going into a tiny recess behind a partition to change, but found it completely filled by three officers who sat playing cards by the light of a solitary candle on an empty box, and these officers would on no account yield their position. [2]
- Some hundreds of ignorant foreigners, dissatisfied with the money in their pay envelopes, had marched out of the Clarendon Mill and attacked the Chippering and behold, the revered structure of American Government had quivered and tumbled down like a pack of cards! [9]
- I have learn how to speak English; I have lose all my money when I go to play a game of cards. [11]
- The judge always holds good cards, and plays a number one hand. [9]
- He had by his will, wisdom and military skill, saved the island in its hour of peril, saved its governor from condemnation; and here he was facing the worst enemy of his life with the cards of success in his hands. [11]
- Then he thrust his little fat hand, on which several valuable rings glittered, into the box, and held out to the bystanders a small bundle of papers like an open pack of cards. [10]
- Perhaps she wanted his friendship wholly for herself; but that selfish consideration did not overshadow the feeling that Jasmine had cheated at cards, as it were; and that Ian ought not to be compelled to play with her again. [11]
- The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. [2]
- Impulse had brought him thus far, but now he stood staring helplessly at a row of bells, speaking tubes, and cards. [9]
- Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. [2]
- Hans Eitelfritz had heard of her skill and when, as he was leaving, she approached and offered to question the cards for him, he would not allow Ulrich to prevent him from casting a glance into the future. [10]
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