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A History of the County of Lancaster
… who should not lavish their money and time in drinking and gambling.' These benefactions are intact. The incomes from …
Old and New London
… vicissitudes of the Stock Exchange are like those of the gambling-table. A story is related specially illustrative of … says an habitu, relieves the excitement of this feverish gambling. The stockbrokers indulge in practical jokes which …
Survey of London
… in this way. Later the building is said to have housed a gambling den in its cellars. 20 The school was originally …
Survey of London
… later J. R. Planch described Bunn's management as 'sheer gambling of the most reckless description, in no one instance …
A History of the County of Oxford
… especially those resulting from the curses of that age, gambling, horse racing, and cock fighting. 421 The last of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lord's fishpond, keeping greyhounds to chase hares, and gambling in taverns, or, if they were wholly undesirable, …
Old and New London
… the Russian trade. There was a time when there was as much gambling in tallow as in Consols, but the breaking down of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the rental of the estate, and that the room was once a gambling chamber, appear to have no authority or foundation. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… at cards and other disreputable practices, he turned to gambling and usury and on the ruin of others quickly amassed …