While baccarat or chemin-de-fer are almost invariably games to be most in favour when the police raid a gambling-house in the West ❋ Frank Froest (N/A)
Hastening southward by _diligence_ and _chemin-de-fer_, the first vineyards appeared between Chartres and Orleans, with an effect much inferior, as it seemed, to that produced by the orchards of Normandy, loaded as they were with ruddy fruit; but this may be the prejudice of a native of the West of England. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
We spent most of the night in playing _chemin-de-fer_. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)
When they were not on duty they played _chemin-de-fer_ and slept. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)
At the end of that period he found himself minus his heavy winnings at chemin-de-fer and ten thousand francs of his reserve fund to boot. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
For Lanyard's chair at the table of chemin-de-fer had been filled by another and, too impatient to wait a vacancy, he wandered on to the salon dedicated to roulette, tested his luck by staking a note of five hundred francs on the black, won, and incontinently subsided into a chair and an oblivion that endured for the space of three-quarters of an hour. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
"Let us go and play chemin-de-fer"; and they did, moving off into one of the further rooms. ❋ Unknown (1906)
"As for an hour or two at chemin-de-fer, baccarat, or roulette," remarked Sengoun, "I am not averse to a----" ❋ William Dodge Stevens (1899)
Il habite un charmant cottage a Beckenham, un endroit a quatre lieues de Londres ou il vient tous les jours en chemin-de-fer. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
Quite close to it, however, was the town of Boulogne, with its well-provided market and shops, and at a distance of a few minutes the chemin-de-fer de ceinture, a line of tramways, one of omnibuses, and the steamboats not very far off. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
Je connais l'etat de mon systeme nerveux et l'effet que le chemin-de-fer lui produit. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
At one _chemin-de-fer_ was in progress; at another ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
Je connais l'état de mon système nerveux et l'effet que le chemin-de-fer lui produit. ❋ Eug��nie Hamerton (1864)
Il habite un charmant cottage à Beckenham, un endroit à quatre lieues de Londres où il vient tous les jours en chemin-de-fer. ❋ Eug��nie Hamerton (1864)
You may have been confused in the casino, or in your reading, by the games of baccarat and chemin-de-fer.
Baccarat is the big-money game in most American casinos, while chemin-de-fer remains more popular in Europe.
Naturally, with this reputation, he was always free of the handsome salons wherein the Friends of Humanity devoted themselves to roulette, auction bridge, baccarat and chemin-de-fer: and of this freedom he now proceeded to avail himself, with his hat just a shade aslant on his head, his hands in his pockets, a suspicion of a smile on his lips and a glint of the devil in his eyes -- in all an expression accurately reflecting the latest phase of his humour, which was become largely one of contemptuous toleration, thanks to what he chose to consider an exhibition of insipid stupidity on the part of the Pack. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
We sat up all night playing two-handed chemin-de-fer, and he owes me a mille Swiss.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Dream Tipsy from champagne and chemin-de-fer, you’re making eyes at a devastating deadly fellow spy. ❋ Cynthia Rowley (2002)
