...He finally ended by involving himself in some speculation; like a gambler who cannot see the roulette wheel without putting his hand in his pocket...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...The gambler had staked more than usual and had lost; but he knew how to lose, just as he had always known how to win...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... Under this gambler Elijah had been wronged up to the age of twenty-eight years, when he resolved to escape...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...He was formerly from Virginia,and was a horse-racer, cock-fighter, gambler, and withal an inveteratedrunkard...
William Wells Brown 「The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave」
...He was a drunkard, a gambler, a profligate, and aslaveholder...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
...Chalmers’ eyes caught those of theturf gambler as the latter lifted them,after making an apparently satisfactorycalculation on the back of his program...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
... So every stroller there recognized the world he lives in, and the child, the mother, the cabby, gambler, pickpocket, doctor, parson, each carries off his or her own bundle of impressions...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
... That thin, alert gentleman in evening clothes is a gambler, getting a breath of air before taking his place behind Daly’s wheel...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...The proprietor of the Wagon TireHouse was just turning her sizzlingsteak in its skillet when the door behindher opened a crack, and the gambler,as she had mentally dubbed him,put his head through...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...The inscription upon the pillory, "Better to work thanstand thus;" and that on the whipping-post near the laced gambler, "The reward ofidleness," are judiciously introduced...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
..."Though," he added hopefully, "mycaptain is a good gambler...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930」
... Presently a thump on the table, and Bill, unlucky gambler, rose with an oath that would have been savage if it hadn’t been drawled...
Henry Lawson 「Joe Wilson and His Mates」
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