gamble for high stakes

Two or three dozen people there and gambling for high stakes.

The most important thing, probably, was that once again he had gambled for high stakes and won.

"I've never gambled for higher stakes, nor will I again.

But beyond these considerations, Ruska liked to gamble for high stakes.

This, Clyde knew, led to rooms where poker players gambled for high stakes.

The only real change would be that they'd gamble for higher stakes and the women would be fancier.

He enjoys fine clothes, delicate foods, scented baths, watching dancers, and gambling for high stakes.

"I've known other members of the clergy who like to gamble for high stakes and, him being in the game, I felt sure it must be honest."

Hermann takes his entire savings to Tchekalinsky's salon, where wealthy men gamble for high stakes.

The tawny, slant-eyed girls of Iqqua would dance at his bidding; and he could gamble for high stakes.

Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes (1978)

"He was always a gambler," Mr. Heller said, "'and he gambled for higher stakes." '

That tale of the gambling for high stakes in the down-town bar seemed to him a little far-fetched, and he wondered whether Smith had not really stolen the stones.

As trembling contestants have made bird-in-the-hand gambles for high stakes, viewers have been treated to opinions about probability that range from the simple-minded to the grandiose.

The Director General of GATT is gambling for high stakes with his take-it-or-leave-it plan for bringing five years of global trade negotiations to a conclusion.

Pulling her close, he said, "You and I are more perfectly matched than you know, Ruza-a.... We take chances, gamble for high stakes, and live life on da ledge."

Although the contract, too, banned her from leaving the convent, Marguerite Louise often went to her cousin Louis XIV's court at Versailles, where she gambled for high stakes.

Louis XIV, ignoring the 1674 contract's article banning Marguerite Louise from stepping foot outside the convent, allowed the Grand Duchess to court, where she gambled for high stakes.

Although at the period of this narrative gambling for high stakes was still considered a masculine occupation, a few women "Poker Alice' and "Madame Moustache' being the most prominent had gained acceptance and were highly respected as players.

Husband and wife shared a love of adventure and the outdoor life, but a shadow was cast over them by his habit of gambling for high stakes; eventually his ancestral home and estate at Bosworth were sold to pay his debts.