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Updated: September 1, 2025
Remember, Monsieur le Depute, you who voted against all the exemption cases of the military law, remember who, in this very place, at your daily game of dominoes for sixty points, more than a hundred times ranted against the permanent army you, accustomed to the uproar of assemblies and the noise of the tavern contributed to the parliamentary victories by crying, "Six all! count that!"
Sometimes when I read the papers from the old country, I pretty near run away, he confessed with a little laugh. 'I never did think how I would be a settled man like this. He was still, as Antonia said, a city man. He liked theatres and lighted streets and music and a game of dominoes after the day's work was over. His sociability was stronger than his acquisitive instinct.
Old Gaspard spent his afternoons in watching the eagles and other rare birds which ventured on those frozen heights, while Ulrich returned regularly to the Gemmi Pass to look at the village. Then they played cards, dice or dominoes and lost and won a trifle, just to create an interest in the game. One morning Hari, who was up first, called his companion.
Soda-water here baccy there letter-paper, bacon, jam, cards, and dominoes you'll find," he continued, as they descended the steps again, "you'll find that nothing whatever has been forgotten, when we make our start this afternoon." "I beg your pardon," said the Rat slowly, as he chewed a straw, "but did I overhear you say something about 'we, and 'start, and 'this afternoon'?"
The object in dominoes is either to block the game so that the adversary cannot play or it is to make the two ends when added together equal to some multiple of a given number, or it is to make both ends of the line the same. The player first getting rid of all his pieces is "Domino." Dominoes are made in sets known by the number of pips on the highest domino or bone in the set.
In what do my castles of cards resemble his tower of dominoes? We say that we live, we miserable beings, because we keep dying over and over again.
The undefinable smell of the East was in the air. The Cafe de Bordeaux, which forms an angle of the Place, blazed in front of me. A few hardy souls, a Zouave or two, an Arab, a bored Englishman and his wife, and some French inhabitants were sitting outside in the chilliness. I entered. The cafe was filled with a nondescript crowd, and the rattle of dominoes rose above the hum of talk.
Dominoes were rattling on the tables, and though everything was open to the air, the strong smell of gin and tobacco struck you in the face. Tonet had pleasant memories of the place the scene of his triumphs in generosity in the first months of his marriage to Rosario.
Games at cards languished, players at dominoes musingly built towers with them, drinkers drew figures on the tables with spilt drops of wine, Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick, and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off. Thus, Saint Antoine in this vinous feature of his, until midday.
Later in my saunterings I went into a kind of restaurant, where I saw a number of Chinese men and boys playing cards and dominoes and dice. They went on with the games as if they were oblivious to us. I noticed there were Chinese coins of small value on the tables, and some of the players were apparently winning while others were losing.
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