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For instance, when strangers, pleased with my carefully practised jeu de theâtre, send fulsome notes and costly bijouterie to my lodgings, praying in return a lock of my hair or a photograph, my griffons, as you facetiously term them, rarely even consult me, but generally send back the jewels by the bearer, and twist the billets-doux into tapers to light Mr. Waul's pipe.
To which jeu d'esprit Mr Drummond answered with a pencil on a card "Mr and Mrs Drum- Mond intend to come." "Here, give Tomkins that, Jacob; it will please him better than any formal acceptation." Mr and Mrs Turnbull were also asked; the former accepted, but the latter indignantly refused.
The mediaeval drama, in whose complex development we have to trace many strands, probably represents in its oldest forms the coarse farcical buffoonery which may be related to the last fashions of the ancient world; it received a new impulse from the dramatization of scripture history in the twelfth century; but in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, at least in France, it had already become substantially a drama of romantic or contemporary life, as we can see in Jean Bodel's Jeu de St.
With the rakes the croupiers collected the stakes of certain players; with these same rakes they doubled, separated, or even paid, in proportions of which he took no account, certain others, and that was all. But it mattered little. Having seen how the money was placed on the table, that was sufficient. He had five louis in his hand when the croupier said: "Messieurs, faites votre jeu."
Germain, 'be pleased to listen to me. "Then he revealed to her a secret, for which each of us would give a good deal." The young officers listened with increased attention. Tomsky lit his pipe, puffed away for a moment, and then continued: "That same evening my grandmother went to Versailles to the jeu de la reine.
It belonged to an old nobleman, who, though on the brink of the grave, was still grasping at the good things on the margin. He lived with a pretty and clever woman, who bore the name and honours of his wife. They kept up two salons, one pour le petit souper, and the other pour le petit jeu. You saw much ecarte and more love-making, and lost your heart and your money with equal facility.
In a few chapters, by the time the writer had got such an inimitable personage as Parson Adams before the reader, it was seen that the book was to be more than a jeu d'esprit: rather, the work of a master of characterization. In short, Joseph Andrews started out ostensibly to poke good-natured ridicule at sentimental Mr.
Then one hot day, when they nooned beside a shining lake and she sat in the shade of a boulder, she heard the men talking. "The summer she is good," a Metis remarked. "Me, I lak' better make the prospect than the freight. Chercher l'argent, c'est le bo' jeu!" "We haven't struck much argent yet," said the white miner. "I wonder what the boss thinks and guess he's up against something.
The saying went, that owing to the multitude of churches at Ravenna every day was there a saint's day. A poor jeu de mots, mortaio, mortar, being substituted for mortale. I.e. argued preposterously, the goat being the last animal to carry a rider comfortably downhill.
They are forced to compound with the passions which they are unable to destroy; and it is better that men should be professed gamblers than usurers, swindlers, and thieves." Such was the reasoning employed in behalf of the establishment of the Academies de jeu, which existed prior to the revolution.
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