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Great Expectations vocabulary
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whist
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tags: [recreation]
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Definition:a card game with rules similar to euchre where players must follow suit. There are dozens of variations, one of which is the game of "hearts".gratuitous shuffle noise: by empraetorius, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/https://www.freesound.org/people/empraetorius/sounds/201253/ (original trimmed/edited to reduce file size)
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Us sit by the fire with Harpo and Sofia and play a hand or two of bid whist, while Suzie Q and Henrietta listen to the radio.
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They're always having whist parties and such things back and forth.
Jack London. The Iron Heel.
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Mr. Wickham did not play at whist, and with ready delight was he received at the other table between Elizabeth and Lydia.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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He was informed that Nastasia used to play with Rogojin every evening, either at "preference" or "little fool," or "whist"; that this had been their practice since her last return from Pavlofsk;
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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She did not appear when we afterwards went up to Miss Havisham's room, and we four played at whist.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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He had spent five consecutive hours standing bolt upright at the card tables, watching them play whist, without understanding anything about it, and it was with a deep sigh of relief that he pulled off his boots.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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