fall of the cards
Example Sentences
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When the fall of the cards reveals an unusual situation, unusual means must be adopted to meet it; and here your reason and common sense must come to your aid.
From Bridge; its Principles and Rules of Play with Illustrative Hands and the Club Code of Bridge Laws by J.B. (Joseph Bowne) Elwell
They sat down to play bridge in the little drawing-room, and pretended to be interested in the fall of the cards.
From Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
Mechanically, Winnie North complied, and, in a silence broken only by the whispering fall of the cards, he dropped before Willa herself a king full, and at the erstwhile dealer's place, four damning eights.
From The Fifth Ace by George W. Gage
To Susan it seemed a little flat to sit here seriously watching the fall of the cards, deeply concerned in the doubled spade or the dummy for no trump.
From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris
They could even hear the soft fall of the cards and Sylvia's musical laugh in the background.
From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
