He knocked me out when I had A-J and hit top pair and he some worthless bottom two-pair. ❋ Peter Schorsch (2009)
Guido was hoping for and banking on a far better hand than the two-pair he got. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Being seated at dinner the next day off the cold leg of mutton that Smithers had admired so the day before, and Gus as usual having his legs under our mahogany, a hackney-coach drove up to the door, which we did not much heed; a step was heard on the floor, which we hoped might be for the two-pair lodger, when who should burst into the room but Mrs. Hoggarty herself! ❋ Unknown (2006)
When you was ill, who forgot the natral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell? ❋ Unknown (2006)
If he decided to keep the pair and the jack and draw substitutes for the other two, he'd have a one-in-five chance of getting another jack to make a two-pair hand. ❋ Deaver, Jeffery (2006)
Suppose she made a fine grimace, and said, “Most painful as my position is, most deeply as I feel for my William, yet truth must prevail, and I deeply lament to state that the beloved partner of my life DID commit the flagitious act with which he is charged, and is at this present moment located in the two-pair back, up the chimney, whither it is my duty to lead you.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
"So far," he said, "I got very lucky with aces, when I rivered a higher two-pair to double up." ❋ Unknown (2005)
Miller accused Dembski of a retrospective fallacy, which is like “equating the odds of drawing two pairs in poker with the odds of drawing a particular two-pair hand - say a pair of red queens, a pair of black 10s and the ace of clubs… demanding a particular outcome, as opposed to a functional outcome,…” ❋ Unknown (2005)
These feature sets actually use the in-place, two-pair station wire. ❋ Unknown (1985)
This was no poverty-stricken band of refugees chivvied along by police; here each family had its own wagon ... long, sweeping, boat-tight Conestogas drawn by three-pair teams and housed in sturdy glass canvas square and businesslike Studebakers with steel bodies, high mudcutter wheels, and pulled by one or two-pair teams. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1955)
If there be two or more two-pairs shown, two-pairs being the best hand, the hand containing the pair highest in value shall be the best hand; and if two two-pair hands contain pairs equally high in value, such pairs being the [57] highest, the value of the other pair shall decide which is the better hand. ❋ W. H. Peel (N/A)
The two-pair back was his domain, and his territory was less adorned than crowded with the evidences of his taste and handiwork. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Thesaurus" of the Silurian period, and connect it with the induction of the biblical text, and we shall see that the forms characteristic of that period appeared not only synchronously in time and space, but also in physical conditions, and consequently, that no immense epochs were expended in the propagation, of species on the "two-pair" theory of our materialistic friends. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)
He lodges in a two-pair back, and at the tavern near ❋ Various (N/A)
For in July it had become customary to welcome there many of those poor souls from London who arrived exhausted by the season, and than whom no seamstress in a two-pair back could better have earned a holiday. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Warwick Street two-pair front, let me tell you -- no, nor in your B 17, or whatever your seat is, at the Museum. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
And he says kindly: Your wife'll be much more indignant when you ask her to get out of that pretty house of yours and pile in into a two-pair back -- with kids perhaps, too ... ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
The game began at eight o'clock, and by nine and a series of two-pair hands and bull luck Mr. Gus Johnson was seven dollars and a nickel ahead of the game, and the Reverend Mr. Thankful Smith, who was banking, was nine stacks of chips and a dollar bill on the wrong side of the ledger. ❋ Various (1887)
A gentleman having said that a conge d'elire [999] has not, perhaps, the force of a command, but may be considered only as a strong recommendation; 'Sir, (replied Johnson, who overheard him,) it is such a recommendation, as if I should throw you out of a two-pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft [1000].' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
I have two [Jacks] and two [Aces], so [I think I'm] good. ❋ DapperDanMan (2005)
[Timmy] has a [two pair ace ten], so billy has to give him half of his [chips]. ❋ FatHecker (2020)
