1 A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.
2 And finally she decided that, because he had little to do besides gamble and had few enough nice friends in Atlanta, he sought her out solely for companionship's sake.
3 But when she had gone to bed, he and Mrs Bolton would gamble on till two and three in the morning, safely, and with strange lust.
4 The upshot was, Sir Clifford raised Mrs Bolton's wages a hundred a year, and she could gamble on that.
5 In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 6 You've seen the hotels and the museums and the balls and the gambling houses.
7 Scrapes about women, several shootings, gun running to the revolutionists in Central America and, worst of all, professional gambling were included in his career, as Atlanta heard it.
8 And he seemed to take it as a personal affront that I did not starve but put my poker playing to excellent advantage and supported myself royally by gambling.
9 And they couldn't uphold it if it were known that gambling money and speculator's money and Carpetbag money was behind it.
10 Ah, well, they wouldn't remember that; besides, it was the idea of the gambling debt that frightened Percy.
11 I hear she is interesting herself now in that silly Silverton boy, who has had his head turned by Carry Fisher, and has been gambling so dreadfully.
12 When a farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling or the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.
13 "Wide open" gambling and debauchery made the city pleasing to "trade," but burglaries and holdups did not.
14 Many of the saloons in Packingtown had pool tables, and some of them bowling alleys, by means of which he could spend his evenings in petty gambling.
15 Afterward they drifted into a roulette parlor, and Jurgis, who was never lucky at gambling, dropped about fifteen dollars.