bunco game
Example Sentences
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"We'd been talking of a bunco game when you came up."
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
It is not every game that must have its suckers but every bunco game.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
Just as I know that case-knives are suspicious and that picking chestnuts may be a bunco game as easy as anything else.
From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne
They got the Borough President of Manhattan, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Register and a lot of lesser places, it was the greatest bunco game of modern times.
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
"I thought perhaps you had rented it for your bunco game," retorted he.
From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham
