On one side of the river there is a fishing village of mat and attap hovels on stilts raised a few feet above the slime of a mangrove swamp; and on the other an expanse of slime, with larger houses on stilts, and an attempt at a street of Chinese shops, and a gambling-den, which I entered, and found full of gamblers at noonday. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
My brother then went into the city again, and, as usual, into a gambling-den, where he managed to get money for gaming, or sat and looked on. ❋ Various (N/A)
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church now rests on its lectern upon the site of the old liquor-bar, and the gambling-den of former days is replaced by its pews. ❋ Various (N/A)
The break-up of the gambling-den, too, was something. ❋ Frank Froest (N/A)
The gambling-den was dimly lighted, and on the floor in a large circle were seated men and women, either playing the game of fan-tan or anxiously awaiting their turn. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
On our return we went to the place of places in Bangkok, thoroughly Chinese in character, -- a combination of gambling-den, chop-house, and theatre, covering in space about a block. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
To supplement all this, Fong Wu recounted the news: the arrival of a consul in San Francisco, the raid on a slave -- or gambling-den, the progress of a tong war under the very noses of the baffled police, and the growth of Coast feeling against the continued, quiet immigration of Chinese. ❋ Various (N/A)
From the dance-hall it is an easy path to the saloon and the brothel, as it is from the game of craps and the pool-room to the gambling-den and the criminal joint. ❋ Henry Kalloch Rowe (N/A)
He held off a mob of shrieking gangsters, crouched behind an overturned table in a gambling-den. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
He never cursed; he was an ecclesiastical believer that one of the chief aims of man is to keep from saying those mystic words "hell" and "damn"; but he could make "darn it" and "why in tunket" sound as profane as a gambling-den .... ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Finally he went into a gambling-den and found a welcome among players whose faces he knew. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
Durade had furnished this larger place luxuriously, and evidently intended to use it for a private gambling-den, where he would bring picked gamesters. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
Up stairs the gambling-den was doing a good business. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
This gambling-den was frequently the bone of contention between energetic ministers of the gospel and the police department. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
On the second floor were wine-rooms and a notorious gambling-den. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
The campaign was ended, and there came by telegraph from Cheyenne a notification that Lieutenant Ray would be needed as a witness on the trial of the owners of that gambling-den in which the soldier Wolf had been done to death. ❋ Charles King (1888)
So Ben and his new acquaintance entered the famous gambling-den. ❋ Horatio Alger (1865)
What! Dennis Fleet, the son of Ethel Fleet, brawling, fighting in a bar-room, a gambling-den, and going out to seek a situation that required confidence and fair-appearing, all blackened, bruised, and bleeding! ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
Imagine the amazement of Paris when it learns that Lia d'Argeles was a virtuous woman, who sacrificed her reputation for the sake of her son -- a martyr, whose disgrace was only a shameful falsehood invented by two men of rank to increase the attractions of their gambling-den! ❋ ��mile Gaboriau (1852)
