bunco game

Example Sentences

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"I thought perhaps you had rented it for your bunco game," retorted he.

From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham

He generalized upon industry and society somewhat as follows:— Society, as organized, was a vast bunco game.

From Burning Daylight by London, Jack

I don't like the methods," replied Selwyn promptly; "but you are mistaken when you think it's a bunco game.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

The men round the fire the night before in the cow-camp, the men of "the bunco game" had stacked cards and played trump; but unfortunately, they had jumbled the white-vested fighter's orders about the boy.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

“But sometimes I have a sneaking notion that he thinks yet that Dick and I played some kind of a bunco game on him by doctoring the film.”

From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Chadwick, Lester