...Poker is a family of card games involving betting and individual play, whereby the winner is determined by the ranks and combinations of their cards, some of which remain hidden until the end of the game. Poker games vary in ...

...s reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form. This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution ... ...mud, blasted on his bugle, and the post parade began. Most fans sought refuge in the clubhouse, yet ten feet away two women in stylish raincoats als... ...idn’t know if Lazer Cat would run well either. The horse had performed poorly in four starts on a sunny day, but maybe he’d like the shitty weather. ... ...e card. “So damn wet this spring, that inside post is the kiss of death. I'm betting Bixton’s horse will bounce. Going with Julie.” Stetson Man sla... ...et. The speed horse was the heavy favorite, so the race probably wasn't worth betting. Besides, it was more important he submit his claim on Otto’s ... ...ed, pressed a big finger to his lips then turned and resumed his jaunt to the betting windows. “Well, that makes it easier,” Adam said as he studie... .... The guy kicked like a mule. His leg felt like it had been stabbed with a hot poker. He bridled Ace and led him outside to where Sandra waited on a...

...ater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in town, never suspecting she’s a person of interest—and not because of her riding skills.Kurt didn’t expect his contrary colt to flourish under Julie’s feminine touch nor for his own rusty heart to soften. However, his decei...

...by J. Morgan ISBN 10: 1-936000-00-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-00-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-... ...ll rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photoco... ...out permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination, or are used in a... ...r sibling rivalry aside, we’d never lied to each other and I was essentially betting Donatello’s life on Kris knowing I would never try to mislead h... ... a game of Texas Hold ‘em. Then again, I wouldn’t turn down a game of Strip Poker if he was willing to spot me a pair of pants or two. J. Morgan ...

...oesn't plan on meeting the vamp of her dreams. Staking Donatello Ravell might not have been the best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between vamps and humans, Savannah and Donatello discover there's more to life than saving the world -- like falling in love....

...09 by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 ... ...09 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including ... ...m without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination, or are use... ...tted some of her own facts. Since the time she was a little girl, she could keep a poker face, but her voice would change pitch whenever she thought... ...alled Mather’s office and was told the sheriff had gone for the day. If she were a betting woman, she’d bet that where he’d gone for the day was to...

...s, Royce's business partner. Sparks fly, but can she really trust a man she knows nothing about? And why is it that every time something new develops in the case, he seems to be there? Warnings to back off escalate to an attempt on her life. Now, for Laura Kate, it's more than just a mystery. Depending on Jack might be a mistake, but if Laura Kate can get past his southern...

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...erson doesn‘t care? Is it possible that spending their time playing video poker is more important than watching the evening news or reading a newspap... ...to them 87 than following a life of denying their appetites today and betting with Pascal that they should live the virtuous life today and wait... ...ganized crime activities seem to have sprung up in most countries. Illegal betting, protection rackets, smuggling, pornography, and the white slave t... ...ble choosing red or black, at the coffee machine choosing sugar or cream, betting on the home team or the visitors, or in the church or synagogue de...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...she was ready for any answer. Any answer would have amused her, but she was betting on a particular muddled response. Having a keen enough discernmen... ...a little bit late for my two boys to be playing billiards like they are at a poker party?" "No, I donﾁOt Gabriele; and do you want me to tell you why?...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... guess, do you?” “I guess nothing, though it seems profitable. That Yankee betting man ‘guesses,’ and what heaps of money he makes by it!” “I wish I d... ...elling and tearing, and I chaff my way through and back clean as a red-hot poker.” Anthony laughed, and rolled somewhat as he laughed. “Come along, si... ...ng at him when he did a successful thing. She winked at some quiet stately betting that went on between him and Lord Suckling. They were at first pret... ...ar.” “May not the smallness of the amount in some degree ac- count for the betting?” she asked whimsically. “You know, I bet a little—just a little. I... ...e box—and who would have guessed how stout it was, and me to hit it with a poker and not break it, I couldn’t, nor get a single one through the slit;—... ...I couldn’t, nor get a single one through the slit;—the sight I was, with a poker in my hand! I do declare I felt azactly like a housebreaker;— and no ...

... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ...conventionally laugh at him on the remaining three hun- dred and sixty-four days. CHAPTER X SHY NEIGHBOURHOODS S O MUCH OF MY travelling is done on fo... ...-hole by the river, down lanes and alleys on the other side of the Strand. As to any other person to meet him or obstruct him, Lyons Inn was dreaming,... ...Member, with his right hand buttoned up in the breast of his coat, and his back characteristically turned on bales of petitions from his constituents,... ...old in his head—he restores it to its pocket immediately afterwards. Number two is a burly brute of five-and-thirty, in a tall stiff hat; is a composi... ...ement for him, and, when he had brought him down, would look severely out of his study window and ask him how he enjoyed the fun. I thought how Mr. Ba...

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...n fuddled approval as I came down past them into the crowd again. Men were betting whether the Unionists would lose more or less than two hundred seat... ... men to forgery. We do already threaten the privacy of the post because of betting tout’s letters. The drift of all that kind of thing is narrow, unim... ...tself; the whole world of politicians is far too like a man who snatches a poker to a failing watch. It is easy to say he wants to “get something done... ...g done,” but the only sane thing to do for the moment is to put aside that poker and take thought and get a better implement… . One of the results of ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e uptilted. His knees were straight and massive. She sighed, picked up the poker, and again began to prod the fire, to rouse the clouds of soft, brill... ... at outs with respectability, mix- ing with the looser, sporting type, all betting and drinking and showing dogs and birds, and racing. As a critic of...

...Excerpt: He was working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ose; you may be quite sure of it! But what does it matter? I wouldn’t mind betting that that was the very reason for his wanting to engage you. You wi... ... him. Besides that, a dog bit my leg, a peasant woman threatened me with a poker from the door of her hut, shouting, ‘Ugh! you pig! You Moscow rascals...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...sitting.” “Will you bet that I did not?” “No; for what would be the use of betting about it?” “Then at least wager the gun which you have bought.” “No... ...A grown, middle-aged man—a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker—suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while a...

...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yon... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... but quietly returned to her copy- ing; and when Henry came with paper and poker to remove the damage, she only shoved back her chair, and sat waiting... ...p if she did not creep up close to me. I’m tired of going at them with the poker, and would poison every man Jack of them if it were not for the fear ... ...the haunts of vice, that are the declivity towards crime? Is he gaming, or betting, or drinking? No. He has obeyed the sum- mons of his country; he is...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...im. “Thank you for the beautiful shawls, brother,” said Amelia to the fire poker. “Are they not beautiful, Rebecca?” “O heavenly!” said Miss Sharp, an... ...traight to the chandelier. Joseph still continued a huge clattering at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his y... ... dumb waiter. Two kitchen chairs, and a round table, and an attenuated old poker and tongs were, however, gathered round the fire- place, as was a sau... ...t much meddle with the conversa- tion, except when it was about horses and betting. “What can you want with a shepherd’s dog?” the lively little South...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...sure of him likewise. And then a truce to all that Radical rageing and hot-pokering of the country! and lie in peace, old Shrapnel! and get on your le... ...g the look of a sweating smith’: pre- sumptively in the act of heating his poker at the furnace to stir the country. It now became an offence to him t... ...e half its columns to the vices of the rich—to money-getting, spending and betting—will be 409 George Meredith an extraordinary paper.’ ‘I have it be...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nd a large proportion of the gentlemen had a strong turn for billiards and betting. They had all, it may be presumed, a turn for business; being all c... ...be!’ cried Mr Jonas, stopping his honoured parent’s hand in the use of the poker. ‘Do you mean to come to want in your old age, that you take to wasti... ...an oath. ‘He didn’t know what to say. Same, sir, if he wasn’t as mute as a poker. But you know what a good fellow Nobley is!’ ‘The best fellow in the ...

...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylva... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...en won’t go into it. But, all the same, it’s not the fighting men, but the betting men, that bring discredit on it. I wish your cousin had held his co... ...to rush to the assistance of his mistress at her first sum- mons. He had a poker concealed at hand. Having just heard a great laugh, and seeing Cashel... ... her price, just as I used to pretend to be getting beat, to set the flats betting agin me. The women always made a pet of him. In Melbourne it was no... ...d it would have paid him better to lose than to win, along of those wicked betting men. Not an angry word have I ever had from him, nor the sign of li...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...worth no money to me.” Fred carried the letter to the fire, and thrust the poker through it with much zest. He longed to get out of the room, but he w... ...as at a starting- point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appr... ...risked making bids in order simply to raise prices, it was almost equal to betting at the races. The second day, when the best furniture was to be sol... ...had made part of his memorable 608 Middlemarch debt, having lost money in betting, and been obliged to bor- row of that gay companion. It was general...

... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ... worth no money to me.” Fred carried the letter to the fire, and thrust the poker through it with much zest. He longed to get out of the room, but he w... ... was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could ap ... ...risked making bids in order simply to raise prices, it was almost equal to betting at the races. The second day, when the best furniture was to be sol... ... poor Fred Vincy had made part of his memorable debt, having lost money in betting, and been obliged to borrow of that gay compan ion. It was general...

... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ....’ There was boldness for you on both sides! All the town was laughing and betting on the event of the night in June: and the odds were in favour of K... ... cent.: they conjure the gale, and be hanged,’ said Potts; he swore at his betting ma- nia, which destroyed the pleasure of the show he loved. All in ... ...d should be helped to live.’ ‘We ‘ll do our best. Why an interpreter?’ ‘ A poker in the fire. The interpreter—whether the mother will bear to have it ...

... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, a... ... church what was he doing? Gathering other blas’e multimillionaires into a Poker Club; defiling his own palace with it; losing hundreds of thousands t... ...ds, I will give him all he requires. But he ought to find out whether I am betting on what is termed “a sure thing” or not before he ventures his mone...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...om a Newark man, on skittles. All the men in the old, long bar took sides, betting either one way or the other. Morel took off his coat. Jerry held th... ...s. Morel raked. And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remain- der of the coal to ma... ...nderstood thing that if one woman wanted her neighbour, she should put the poker in the fire and bang at the back of the fireplace, which, as the fire... ... in prison one night for fighting when he was drunk, and there was a shady betting episode in which he was concerned. Paul and he were confirmed enemi...

...AUL LAUNCHES INTO LIFE .......................................................................................................... 91 CHAPTER VI DEATH IN THE FAMILY................................................................................................................ 123 PART TWO..........................................................................................

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trnas. Constance... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e ready to wash my feet and drink the water, you monster, you black French poker! You’d have been done for but for me!” “But why are you upsetting you... ...y . There’s almost a suspicion of class feel- ing about this. I don’t mind betting that’s it. I assure you you’re offending me.” But I stuck to my poi...

...nous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate tenement, not a room in other people?s lodgings; secondly, though I could do with one room, it must be a large one, and, of course, it had at the same time to be as cheap as possible. I ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylva... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ur wife, Dan?’ asked Mr Crawley. The man answered by pointing with a short poker, which he held in his hand, to the bed, which was half-screened from ... ...‘And are the Darvels here?’ asked Mr Crawley. Then Morris, again using the poker, pointed upwards, showing that the Darvels were still in their allott... ...ink before him, as though he had been at work. Dobbs Broughton had a small betting-book in his hand, and was seated with his feet up against the side ...

...ilverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held their heads up high, as provincial lawyers often do. They--the Wa...