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...d me throughout my time there opting for being true to myself and to let the dominoes fall all around me. It seems to me that all noble people project...

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...ad not declared war on the Austria Hungarian empire: none of the rest of the dominoes which created WW1 would have fallen. The imperial and royal ...

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...ing five or six well to do citizens would enter the front room and play at dominoes there. Although Cartier was dead and the Cafe de Paris had got a q... ...mained ob scure, save in the corner where the few townsfolk rattled their dominoes, she personally waited on the gentlemen of the divan, showing hers...

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...ittle events of his life, for his seat was close to her counter. He played dominoes, the only game he was capable of understanding. When his partners ... ...hat the devil plays any game at all, and then find out what game; possibly dominoes” [blows his nose]. Fleury [interrupting]. “Pere Poiret is blowing ... ...; he wants to read the obituary.” Poiret. “What was I saying?” Thuillier. “Dominoes,—perhaps the devil plays dominoes.” [Sebastien enters to gather up... ...e corner of the rue Dauphine and the quai des Augustins? They say he plays dominoes there every night with his friend Monsieur 126 Bureaucracy Gobsec... ...m where he now was sat by his own fireside, and in the Cafe Themis playing dominoes. At certain epochs in history certain powers appear, to whom all e...

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...s lying on the only rug. The Accoun- tant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones. Marlow sat 4 Hear... ...on board the yacht. For some reason or other we did not begin that game of dominoes. We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring. The d...

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... men who hunt are not more iniquitous than men who go out fishing, or play dominoes, or dig in their gardens. Maxima debetur pueris reverentia, and st...

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...ty to eat, and a can of beer a day, and a bit of bacca—and they’ll provide dominoes and skittles for you to play with. And you’ll be the most contente...

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...ury Lane, with a window full of tinsel robes, sham jewels, wigs, slippers, dominoes and theatrical photographs. The shop was old-fashioned and low and... ...that I could buy subsequently, and for the time I swathed myself in calico dominoes and some white cashmere scarfs. I could find no socks, but the hun...

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...ated in a corner. Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 30 the counter ... ...eighty. (Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from... ...kings palace to the criminal’s gaol. Games at cards languished, players at dominoes musingly built towers with them, drinkers drew figures on the tabl... ...y lights; of the people, pipe in mouth, playing with limp cards and yellow dominoes; of the one bare breasted, bare armed, soot begrimed workman readi...

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...to him. “Well, look here, I’ve just done a poem; dil it instead of playing dominoes after lunch. May I read it?” “Let me read it to myself.” “Then you...

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...ou’ d much better lie down and take your medicine. I’ d play you a game of dominoes, but it’ s Sunday .” “I’ll be good. Oh, I will be good. Only-takin...

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...eur Clapart was expecting a friend named Poiret, who often came in to play dominoes, for never did he allow him- self to spend an evening at a cafe. I...

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... crush him under foot, I’ll dance on his carcass, I’ll make his bones into dominoes! To-morrow, every wall in Nemours and Fontainebleau and Rouvre sha...

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... recruiting themselves with butterbrods and meat; idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables; tumblers refreshing during the cessat...

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...’s house; everybody knows him, Gobseck, a stuck-up rascal, that would make dominoes out of his father’s bones, a Turk, a heathen, an old Jew, a Greek;...

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...me cheaper and more readily prepared costume, and Grubb fell back on white dominoes. They entertained the notion for a time of selecting the two worst...

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... ever, but with a certain French air about them—not without a suspicion of dominoes—with a kind of flavour of moustache and beard—demonstrative dogs, ...

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...ecome one of a little family, all in little quiet beds (except two playing dominoes in little arm-chairs at a little table on the hearth): and on all ...

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...from time to time for fifteen years past at the cafe David, where he plays dominoes. That is why I have come with you.” Monsieur Molineux showed the u...

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...Guerre. There, from 1802 to 1804, all the bourgeois of Soulanges played at dominoes and a game of cards called “brelan,” drank tiny glasses of liqueur...

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...dvanced age were seated round a card-table earnestly employed in a game of dominoes. Three glasses and an empty silver bowl which gave forth a vinous ...

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... his body . It looked like a pea uneasily poised on an egg. He was playing dominoes with a Frenchman, and greeted the new-comers with a quiet smile; h... ...decayed teeth; and on the table in a cigar -box without a lid was a set of dominoes; old numbers of The Strand Magazine and of The Graphic were lying ...

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...“to doss” (piausser, make a new skin). What picturesque imagery! Work your dominoes (jouer des domi- nos) is to eat; how can men eat with the police a...

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...acy of the railway works listened to him, turning away from their cards or dominoes. Here and there a fair-haired Basque studied his hand meantime, wa...

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... piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me. In good time she made tea; and after- wards, when I broug...

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...ry street and every corner drove carriages filled with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, scre...

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...the next moment that his allusion was not to the fat gentleman immersed in dominoes on whom his eyes had begun by resting, but to their host of the pr...

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...ecome one of a little family, all in little quiet beds (except two playing dominoes in little arm-chairs at a little table on the hearth): and on all ...

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... recruiting themselves with butterbrods and meat; idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables; tumblers refreshing during the cessat...

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...cup of coffee there with milk in it?’ said I to myself, ‘or play a game of dominoes?’ “I threw into my work the fury I felt at my misery. I tried to m...

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...h a knife, a set of draughts, made of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three wine bottles. That was all the chamber... ...pread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work?’ ‘Never!’ ‘Have you ever thou... ...f cooking; there was the cafe with its bright windows, and its rattling of dominoes; there was the dyer’s with its strips of red cloth on the doorpost... ... came in at the door, to a few men who occupied the room. Two were playing dominoes at one of the little tables; three or four were seated round the s... ...o the introduction of that threatening expression. Even the two players at dominoes glanced up from their game, as if to protest against philosophical...

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... He got into the habit of going to the public-house, and had a passion for dominoes. To shut himself up every evening in the dirty public room, to pus... ...one. When the game of cards was over, the druggist and the Doc- tor played dominoes, and Emma, changing her place, leant her elbow on the table, turni... ... he carefully gave a dying fall in the love passages. But the noise of the dominoes an- noyed him. Monsieur Homais was strong at the game; he could be...

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...y: ‘This is a God Dam Funny Ship’”—quoth Mexique, laughing. Mexique played dominoes with us (B. having devised a set from card-board), strolled The En... ...ing till he shook and had to lean against a wall. B. and Mexique made some dominoes. Jean had not the least idea of how to play, but when we three had...

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... all sorts of things, marbles, apples, bricks in a wall, pebbles, spots on dominoes, and so on; taught to play guessing games with marbles in a hand, ... ...ts cardinal numerical memories. Playing cards (without corner indices) and dominoes supply good recognizable arrangements of numbers, and train a chil...

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...ewildered, even when Una explained. ‘Dan said the plural of “dominus” was “dominoes”, and when Miss Blake said it wasn’t he said he supposed it was “b...

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...h a knife, a set of draughts, made of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three wine bottles. That was all the chamber... ...pread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work?’ ‘Never!’ ‘Have you ever thou... ...f cooking; there was the cafe with its bright windows, and its rattling of dominoes; there was the dyer’s with its strips of red cloth on the doorpost... ... came in at the door, to a few men who occupied the room. Two were playing dominoes at one of the little tables; three or four were seated round the s... ...o the introduction of that threatening expression. Even the two players at dominoes glanced up from their game, as if to protest against philosophical...

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...hildren in the other bed; a girl came in to visit the children, and played dominoes on the counterpane with them; the gas flared and crackled, the fir...

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...emmi to look at the village. In the evening they played at cards, dice, or dominoes, and lost and won trifling sums, just to create an 120 De Maupass...

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... the destinies of a kingdom as gamblers’ stakes, just as ordinary men play dominoes for Kirschenwasser. We have given you out to be the most undaunted...

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...old of death by the thought of the cafe where he plays his nightly game of dominoes. In the year 1835, chance avenged Pons for the indiffer- ence of w...

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... devil’s pictures,” he called them! But he was a master of skittles and of dominoes. He took a challenge from a Newark man, on skittles. All the men i...

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...d blowing them in everybody’s hearing. Lying in bed all day and playing at dominoes, like poor Lord Plessy, would be more private and bearable.” “I se...

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...d blowing them in everybody’s hearing. Lying in bed all day and playing at dominoes, like poor Lord Plessy, would be more private and bearable.” “I se...