game of hazard

David carefully selected the most promising of several games of hazard.

Say, are any of you gentlemen in the mood for a game of hazard?"

"He'll likely show you the latest game of hazard instead, and if you've not brought your dice, I'm sure he's a set to lend.

Murder is like a game of hazard.

Craps developed from a simplification of the early English game of hazard.

"A game of hazard this evening?"

Leisure was given over to games of hazard and calculation, to dancing, singing and romantic story-telling.

There, in the recess of the doorway, two men were squatting on their heels, intent upon a game of hazard.

Then, taking him by the arm, had led him to the card-room, and engaged him in a long game of hazard.

But this time, it was a game of hazard with that horrid Mr. Waldron.

From the game of Hazard came:

They still played the game of Hazard but began refining the rules to simplify it, and in doing so made the game more mathematically fair.

Game of Hazard (1986)

Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults.

There's a deal too much dishonesty in the world, and business seems to have become a game of hazard in which luck, not labor, wins the prize.

Bernardino enjoined his listeners to abstain from blasphemy, indecent conversation, and games of hazard, and to observe feast days.

'She thanked me for my courtesy and prophesied that one day I would play against Europe's greatest prince in a game of hazard, and win.

In a word, Sir John, they enjoy what they do as much as you do a goblet of claret or a game of hazard or teasing me.

And he would turn to a group of friends and call to them: "Come Froggie, Ffoulkes, you too, Tony, a manly game of hazard, what?

Servants hurried in and out of kitchens with pitchers of water while others sat in the shade whiling their time away with dice and other games of hazard.

Harvey gained a reputation among this crowd for playing exceptionally high stakes; one often repeated story concerns his loss, on his 21st birthday in 1779, of over £100,000 in a single game of hazard to a Mr O'Byrne.

Thus he taught the game of hazard, Thus displayed it and explained it, Running through its various chances, Various changes, various meanings: Twenty curious eyes stared at him, Full of eagerness stared at him.