gambly

Updated: May 9, 2025

'It's awfully gambly, isn't it? Do teach us. In a quarter of an hour Milly was bluffing her father with success. She said that in future she should never want to play at any other game. As for Leonora, though she lost and gained counters with happy equanimity, she did not like the game; it frightened her.

Arnold Bennett - Leonora

Neither gold nor anything else, except pebbles, rewarded their toil. "It's always like that," Hugh said at last, sitting down on the edge of the hole they had dug. "Gold is the most gambly stuff imaginable.

Lydia Miller Middleton - The Happy Adventurers