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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHe invites various players to make the cards; this is done in rather a perfunctory manner.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSSuch throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF; A PRACTICAL PLAN OF CHARACTER BUILDING, VOLUME I (OF 17)VARIOUSThen the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBut "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThe commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThey were walking down a corridor, and Miss Thangue was peering through her lorgnette at the cards on the doors.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONSo far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONTheir jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThe Professor put down his cards without a word, and left the room, going straight upstairs.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JULY 24, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO IN THE CARDS
- apprehend
- assume
- await
- bargain for
- bargain on
- be afraid
- calculate
- conjecture
- contemplate
- count on
- divine
- envisage
- feel
- figure
- forecast
- foreknow
- foresee
- gather
- hope
- hope for
- imagine
- in the cards
- look
- look ahead to
- look for
- look forward to
- predict
- presume
- presuppose
- reckon
- see coming
- sense
- suppose
- surmise
- suspect
- take
- think
- trust
- understand
- wait for
- watch for
- apprehends
- assumes
- awaits
- bargain for
- bargain on
- calculates
- conjectures
- contemplates
- counts on
- divines
- envisages
- feels
- figures
- forecasts
- foreknows
- foresees
- gathers
- hope for
- hopes
- imagines
- in the cards
- is afraid
- looks
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- predicts
- presumes
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- reckons
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- takes
- thinks
- trusts
- understands
- waits for
- watches for
- adumbrating
- anticipating
- auguring
- calculating
- calling the turn
- concluding
- conjecturing
- demonstrating
- determining
- divining
- doping out
- estimating
- figuring
- figuring out
- foreseeing
- foretelling
- gathering
- gauging
- in the cards
- inferring
- planning
- portending
- predetermining
- presaging
- prognosticating
- prophesying
- reasoning
- seeing it coming
- soothsaying
- surmising
- telegraphing
- approaching
- booked
- close at hand
- coming
- coming up
- destined
- down the line
- down the pike
- down the road
- eventual
- fated
- final
- forthcoming
- from here in
- from here on
- from here to eternity
- from now on in
- imminent
- impending
- in the cards
- in the course of time
- in the offing
- inevitable
- just around the corner
- later
- likely
- looked toward
- near
- next
- planned
- prospective
- scheduled
- subsequent
- to be
- ulterior
- ultimate
- unborn
- unfolding
- up
- about to happen
- approaching
- brewing
- close
- coming
- expectant
- fast-approaching
- following
- forthcoming
- gathering
- handwriting-on-the-wall
- immediate
- impending
- in store
- in the air
- in the cards
- in the offing
- in the wind
- in view
- ineluctable
- inescapable
- inevasible
- inevitable
- likely
- looming
- menacing
- near
- nearing
- next
- nigh
- on its way
- on the horizon
- on the verge
- overhanging
- possible
- probable
- see it coming
- threatening
- to come
- unavoidable
- unescapable
- acceptable
- achievable
- anticipated
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- attainable
- believeable
- conceivable
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- credible
- destined
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- fair
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- feasible
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- imaginable
- in favor of
- in the cards
- in the habit of
- inclined
- inferable
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- odds-on
- on the verge of
- ostensible
- plausible
- possible
- practicable
- predisposed
- presumable
- promising
- prone
- rational
- reasonable
- seeming
- subject to
- supposable
- tending
- thinkable
- true
- up-and-coming
- verisimilar
- workable
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