fall of the cards
Example Sentences
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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 Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
They could even hear the soft fall of the cards and Sylvia's musical laugh in the background.
From The Wicked Marquis by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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 Gage, George W.
Herman looked up from his game, though in the midst of warm utterance in his native tongue at the immediate perverse fall of the cards.
From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon
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 Norris, Kathleen Thompson
