Bezique

“Agnes, Gornt Blakeman, the man I played bezique with a few nights past, the one who—” ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.” ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

In bezique there was no requirement to follow suit in this early part of the game; face value was all that mattered. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

The night they played bezique, when Delight so openly invited Joyful to her bed and he equally openly refused, Blakeman would have known about that. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

She knew that bezique was a game of cards — or a game of something else. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But no sooner had she gone, than he rang for Mrs Bolton, and asked her to take a hand at piquet or bezique, or even chess. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mother and I — Lady Doak, I should say, we usually play a hand of bezique and go to bed at ten. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Every morning after breakfast, Julien would play several games of bezique with his wife, smoking and sipping brandy as he played. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He had curtly refused a game of bezique; so Rogers had produced a pack of cards from his own pocket — soiled, frayed cards, which had likely done service on many a similar occasion — and was whiling the time away with solitaire. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Right now, Bert owed him a small fortune and had suggested bezique as a change of game. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1998)

Her days were full as she polished and Hoovered, dug the garden and weeded and played bezique with her father. ❋ Neels, Betty (1989)

She was given sherry, told to tidy herself for her supper and plied with good wholesome food before sitting down to a game of bezique with her aunt and then being packed off to bed with Maggie trotting up the stairs presently to see that she drank her milk. ❋ Neels, Betty (1986)

And he knew no amount of brandy would addle his father this night, nor bezique send him off to sleep. ❋ Whitley Strieber (1981)

That is, if his father could be sotted with enough brandy to make him forget his plans, and enough bezique to bore him to sleep. ❋ Whitley Strieber (1981)