lady-players

Updated: July 9, 2025

I remember one outrageous thing he did on the voyage out. There was card-playing going on in the saloon one night, and he was looking on. One of the lady-players well, I suppose I may as well call it by its name one of them cheated. He detected it. Beastly position, of course. Don't know what I should have done under the circumstances, but anyhow he wasn't at a loss.

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - The Way of an Eagle

Yet they told enough; the list of lady-players was given, and Miss Power's name was one.

Thomas Hardy - A Laodicean : a Story of To-day