"Ecarte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for. He left Holland, shaking the dust from his boots, dashed across Belgium, and was soon plunged in the gaieties of a Paris carnival. Breakfasts at the Rocher, dinners at the Cafe, balls at the opera, and the concomitant petits soupers and ecarte parties with the fair denizens of the Quartier Lorette, soon operated a prodigious chasm in the monkey-money, as Van Haubitz irreverently styled his venerable aunt's bequest. Spring having arrived, he beat a retreat from Paris, and established ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag &c; billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain^, American bowls^; tenpins [U.S.], tivoli. cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique^, euchre, drole^, ecarte [Fr.], picquet^, allfours^, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston^; blackjack, twenty- one, vingtun [Fr.]; quinze [Fr.], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... I squeeze The well-packed cards in shuffling. Ecarte, whist, I never missed, A nick the broads[106] while ruffling. Mogul or loo, The same I do, I am down ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Je ne m'en ecarte peut-etre pas tant que nous le croyons: tu as l'air bien distingue, et l'on est quelquefois fille de condition ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... different descriptions of cakes, ices, orgeat and water, punch, warm wine, limonade, etc., according to the season of the year; and often a supper is given on a very liberal scale. Dancing, music, singing, and cards form the amusements of the evening; the games which are played are generally ecarte and whist. ...
— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve
... le besoin attire sur l'eau pour y trouver la proie qui le fait vivre, ecarte les doigts de ses pieds lorsqu'il veut frapper l'eau et se mouvoir a sa surface" (p. 13). If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... well as hated. Only after Newman's secession could the regeneration of the University begin. Then indeed liberalism came in like a flood, though it was a very shallow flood in some cases. This was the day of the self-satisfied young rationalist, 'ecarte par une plaisanterie des croyances dont la raison d'un Pascal ne reussit pas a se degager,' as Renan says—an orgy of facile free thought which after a generation was chastised by ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... supper put a stop both to the game of ecarte, and the recapitulation of the beauties of the Eatanswill GAZETTE. Mrs. Pott was in the highest spirits and the most agreeable humour. Mr. Winkle had already made considerable progress in her good opinion, and she did not hesitate to inform ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens |
