I pass a gambling-hell; take the money and go without me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But we might say the same of the gambling-hell, of the Law Court, of the lottery office, of the brothel. ❋ Unknown (2007)
By various quirks of fate I've landed up as an Indian butler, a Crown Prince, a cottonfield slave-driver, a gambling-hell proprietor, and God knows what besides - all occupations from which I'd have run a mile if I'd been able. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)
Almost every other structure, either tent, cabin, or more pretentious framed house, was either a saloon or gambling-hell, or both combined. ❋ Ned Buntline (N/A)
He had left it with various native chiefs, with Arabs, with a gambling-hell keeper in Pondicherry, with his various friends in short, and even with his enemies. ❋ Unknown (1923)
The American side was bright and clean, orderly and self-respecting, but only a hundred feet away, unkempt, dusty, with adobe buildings and a notorious gambling-hell in plain view, was Mexico itself -- leisurely, improvident, not overscrupulous Mexico. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
When one has seen Spring's blossom fall in London, and Summer appear and ripen and decay, as it does early in cities, and one is in London still, then, at some moment or another, the country places lift their flowery heads and call to one with an urgent, masterful clearness, upland behind upland in the twilight like to some heavenly choir arising rank on rank to call a drunkard from his gambling-hell. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)
And here is a land where, in the higher walks of life, in all the higher striving for the good and noble and true, the color-line comes to separate natural friends and coworkers; while at the bottom of the social group, in the saloon, the gambling-hell, and the brothel, that same line wavers and disappears. ❋ Unknown (1915)
The criminal and the sensualist leave the church for the gambling-hell and the brothel, and fill the slums of Chicago and Baltimore; the better classes segregate themselves from the group-life of both white and black, and form an aristocracy, cultured but pessimistic, whose bitter criticism stings while it points out no way of escape. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Are this house and myself more evil than the dram-shop and the gambling-hell? ❋ Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne (1908)
Not a week had elapsed before the gambling-hell roared all night. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
He forced my mother to use her beauty to lure men to his gambling-hell .... ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
It lay as well down the side streets in sandy ditches, and on tent floors, and behind the bar of the gambling-hell, and in a corner of ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
Soon there arose in her ears the long-forgotten but now familiar sounds of a gambling-hell in full blast. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
In front of this gambling-hell there were scattered groups of men, standing, and going in. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
There was something very brisk and business-like about this gambling-hell. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)
Hough as they reached the roaring lights of the gambling-hell. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
The big gambling-hell had extra lights, extra attendants, extra tables; and there round the great glittering mirror-blazing bar struggled and laughed and shouted a drink-sodden mass of humanity. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
The gambling-hell where she had expected to find Neale had vanished, in a few hours, as if by magic. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
