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...Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and a player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board before his opponent. Backgammon is a memb...

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... shaves the cobalt patches of his nascent beard and whiskers. "I got myself a sucker for a backgammon match. He is from Iran. Was a Minister of lab... ...– Eli wrinkles the daily – "What are you doing here? When did you arrive? Care for a little backgammon match?" Mayer sneers, his bellows chest pulsa... ...ldn't say a word. I occupied one of the twin armchairs in the ironing parlour and set the backgammon board to play. Shalev was preceded in this jo...

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... the road. While the driver strug- gled to f x the engine, they produced a backgammon board from somewhere and began to make more coffee. ‘You’ve got... ...oad again. There were no vehicles in sight. The Bedouin continued to play backgammon. They seemed to have completely forgotten about him. What car ...

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...seemed plausible to every one. Monsieur de Mortsauf pro- posed to teach me backgammon, and I accepted; as I did so the countess was betrayed into a lo... ... have never known misery.” At this crisis I happened to find a treatise on backgammon in Monsieur de Chessel’s library, and I studied it. My host was ... ... of the game because by that time I lose my skill.” The countess, who knew backgammon, understood my manoeuvres from the first, and gave me those mute... ... a frightened look. Madeleine clung to my hand. “Suppose we play a game of backgammon?” I said. “Let us go back; the rattle of the dice will drown the... ... I also kept silence. As she gave me no hint to leave, perhaps she thought backgammon might di- vert the count’s mind and quiet those fatal nervous su... ...ncrease his domain. Presently the countess came down, and sat close to the backgammon table, apparently for better light on her em- broidery, though t... ...I must show a few attentions to my youngest child.” The miserable games of backgammon had come to end. The count’s late purchases took all his time in... ...h the dear child offered them to her. In the afternoon we played a game of backgammon, I alone against Monsieur and Madame de Mortsauf, and the count ... ... and which I had never yet witnessed, for in my former visits I had played backgammon with the count while his wife took the children into the dining-...

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...ght months after the arrival of the doctor these four players of whist and backgammon made a solid and exclusive little world which was to each a frat... ...ere ringing a joy- ous peal that told of the joy of families. The noise of backgammon is intolerable to persons who do not know the game, which is rea... ...ula came into the salon where her godfather was sitting alone, she put the backgammon-board before him. “Whose throw shall it be?” she asked. “Ursula,... ...or mine. When Monsieur Chaperon was pleased with me he gave me a lesson in backgammon, and he has given me so many that now I am quite strong enough t... ...re?” he asked. “Yes.” “Repeat it.” “‘My dear godfather; I wonder who plays backgammon with him in Paris.’ She has blown out the light—her head is 66 ... ...did you think to yourself, ‘That dear godfather; I won- der who is playing backgammon with him in Paris’?” Ursula sprang up as if the last trumpet had... ... his head without laying down the dice-box, for he was play- ing a game of backgammon with Monsieur Bongrand. The doctor’s cold manner surprised every... ...oved and used,—his large duchess-sofa, the furni- ture from his study, his backgammon-table, and the piano he had chosen for her. The two old friends ...

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...e or other of us will take you to live with us. Come, let’s play a game of backgammon. T o-morrow you can go and see the Abbe T roubert and ask him to... ...isit the three salons where, night after night, he played his whist or his backgammon. “ Ah! I did not think of it!” replied Monsieur de Bourbonne, ga...

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...cial oc- curred; but as the parson and Miss La Smyrger insisted on playing backgammon with devoted perseverance during the whole evening, Broughton ha...

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...envied the quiet existence of this old bach- elor, spent on whist, boston, backgammon, reversi, and piquet, all well played, on dinners well digested,... ...s, its painted wooden buffet, its pink and white curtains chequered like a backgammon board, which communicated with the kitchen through a glass door.... ...ly,—one or two by Rigaud, and three pastels by Latour. Four card tables, a backgammon board, and a piquet table occupied the vast room, the only one i... ..., the procureur-du-roi, and two ladies went into the boudoir for a game at backgammon. The glass lustres were lighted; and then the flower of Mademois...

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...the Charter and the Liberals while the cards are making, or over a game at backgammon, when they have exhausted the usual stock of dots, and have marr...

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...o admiration, hunts well, plays wonderfully at billiards, at chess, and at backgammon; he handles the foils, and rides a horse like the late Chevalier...

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...s? He took Rebecca to task once or twice about the propriety of playing at backgammon with Sir Pitt, saying that it was a godless amusement, and that ... ...e for this and other worldly amusements. But it was not only by playing at backgammon with the Bar- onet, that the little governess rendered herself a... ...tary I am become); after dinner, Mr. Crawley’s discourses on the baronet’s backgammon; during both of which amuse- ments my lady looks on with equal p... ...alm ocean spread shining before them, while Rawdon and Jos were engaged at backgammon within—Amelia couched in a great chair quite neglected, and watc...

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...without saying a word to him.” The players at whist, reversis, boston, and backgammon noticed that evening that Mlle. Armande’s features, usually so s... ...its green wrapper. Three card-tables, covered with threadbare baize, and a backgammon box, sufficed for the recreations of the company; and Mme. du Ro...

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...and his nephew passed the evening with Madame Claes. While the abbe played backgammon with Balthazar, Mar- guerite talked with Emmanuel by the bedside... ... to get through the evenings. Though Emmanuel succeeded in making him play backgammon, the chemist’s mind was never present; during most of the time t...

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... long and mysterious rites of her ladyship’s dress were performed, and the backgammon- box locked up with a rap on Mrs. Tusher’s fingers when she play... ...n peace and war. And he sang at my lady’s harpsichord, and played cards or backgammon, or his new game of bil- liards with my lord (of whom he invaria...

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...s? He took Rebecca to task once or twice about the propriety of playing at backgammon with Sir Pitt, saying that it was a godless amusement, and that ... ...e for this and other worldly amusements. But it was not only by playing at backgammon with the Bar- onet, that the little governess rendered herself a... ...tary I am become); after dinner, Mr. Crawley’s discourses on the baronet’s backgammon; during both of which amuse- ments my lady looks on with equal p... ...alm ocean spread shining before them, while Rawdon and Jos were engaged at backgammon within—Amelia couched in a great chair quite neglected, and watc... ...oo along a Pitt. I’m an old man now, and like my own ways, and my pipe and backgammon of a night.” “I can play at backgammon, sir,” said Lady Jane, la... ...old father happy. She slaved, toiled, patched, and mended, sang and played backgammon, read out the news- paper, cooked dishes, for old Sedley, walked...

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...xertions to maintain this happier flow of ideas, and hoped, by the help of backgammon, to get her father tolerably through the evening, and be attacke... ...erably through the evening, and be attacked by no regrets but her own. The backgammon-table was placed; but a visitor immediately afterwards walked in... ... well, had a charming evening with Mr. Woodhouse, a vast deal of chat, and backgammon.—T ea was made downstairs, biscuits and baked apples and wine be...

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...now, and like my own 154 V anity Fair – V olume Two ways, and my pipe and backgammon of a night.” “I can play at backgammon, sir,” said Lady Jane, la...