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Beau. Ha ! ha ! ha ! I shall dye ! Yonder is Lord Finess and Sir George Tenace, two first-rate players ; they have been most lavishly beat by a couple of 'prentices. Ha ! ha ! ha ! They came slap four by honours upon them almost every deal.

The Humours of Whist: A Dramatic Satire, as Acted Every Day at White's and ... - Page 26
1743 - 60 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 130

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages

...! ha I They come slap four by honours upon them almost every deal. ' Lord Rally. I find, Professor, your book do's not teach how to beat four by honours. Ha ! ha ! ha ! ' Professor [aside]. Curse them ! I'd rather have given a thousand pounds than this should have happen'd....

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The Quarterly Review, Volume 130

...! ha ! They came slap four by honours upon them almost every deal. ' Lord Bally. I find, Professor, your book do's not teach how to beat four by honours. Ha ! ha ! ha ! ' Professor [aside]. Curse them ! I'd rather have given a thousand pounds than this should have happcn'd....

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