Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
"What price will you lay against my horse?" "Evens, Mr. Pendyce," replied the gentleman with the gold pencil, "to a monkey." George booked the bet. It was not his usual way of doing business, but to-day everything seemed different, and something stronger than custom was at work. 'I am going for the gloves, he thought; 'if it doesn't come off', I'm done anyhow.
Hill, I must have a bet, on the opening of the new Tattersalls. I will give you evens for a fiver on for the Derby!" Alas! my friend, who ought to have known better, forgot the good advice he had given me only a few years before, and I, heedless of consequences in my hilarity, repeated the offer of evens on the favourite. "Done!" said two or three, and amongst them Hill.
It's all chance, I believe jest like odds and evens. I'm a winnin' anyhow." He turned his face to the bank, and appeared to busy himself in arranging his bets. A fresh deal had commenced, and the players, drawn off for a moment by our conversation, became once more engaged in what was of greater interest to them the little money-heaps upon the cards.
Her anger against Willy Forrest appeared to be forgotten for the time being he, on his part, eying Alban askance, but making no open complaint against him, met her in the paddock and repeated his assurances that Lodestar could not lose. "They run him down to evens, Anna," he said, "and precious lucky we were to get the price we did. There'll be some howls to-night, but what's that to us?
That arouses the unthinking blood, and follows then, no matter the issue, the gaudium certaminis, with no care as to odds or evens. Wherefore, even as the club whizzed by to my side step, I came back from the other foot and smote the hostile stranger on the side of the neck so stiffly that he faltered and almost dropped.
They counted off by twos; the evens waited while the odds danced the half of each set, and then the odds waited and cooled, tried to cool, out on the veranda. "O ladies ramble in, Whilst de beaux ramble out, For to guile dat golden cha ain. My Lawdy! it's a sin Fo' a fiddleh not to shout! Miss Charlotte's a-comin' down de la ane!" Now the dance is off, but now it is on again, and again.
She was noting how it was flashed from the bark of the birch-trees near the Fort. "His mother died," she added again, quietly. "It killed her the gaol for him!" "An eye for an eye," he responded. "Do you think that evens John Marcey's death?" she sighed. "As far as Marcey's concerned," he answered. "Laforce has his own reckoning besides." "It was not a murder," she urged.
Although there was as yet nothing that could be called real delirium, a tendency to talk in a light-headed sort of way was becoming noticeable. Sitting by the window, the one light in the room deeply shaded, she heard the voice suddenly say: "This evens things up a little, doesn't it?
He says many of the musique are ready to starve, they being five years behindhand for their wages; nay, Evens, the famous man upon the Harp having not his equal in the world, did the other day die for mere want, and was fain to be buried at the almes of the parish, and carried to his grave in the dark at night without one linke, but that Mr.
'No, said Henry. 'Evens. And the number four turned up again. At a stroke he had won sixteen thousand francs, six hundred and forty pounds, for Cosette, and the total gains were one thousand two hundred and forty pounds. The spectators were at last interested in Henry's play. It was no longer an illusion on his part that people stared at him. 'Say a number, whispered Cosette.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking