 | Charles William Heckethorn - 1899 - 318 pagina’s
...wagers always lying on the table; the play was frightful. Once a man dropped down dead at the door, and was carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or only in a fit ; and when they were going to bleed him the wagerers for his death interposed, saying... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - 1899 - 394 pagina’s
...wagers always lying on the table; the play was frightful. Once a man dropped down dead at the door, and was carried in; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or only in a fit; and when they were going to bleed him the wagerers for his death interposed, saying... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1903 - 488 pagina’s
...Freychappel, fought, and was killed. I am glad he never heard what poor Gibberne was intended for. They have put in the papers a good story made on White's...and said it would affect the fairness of the bet. Mr. Whithed has been so unlucky to have a large part of his seat M, which he had just repaired, burnt... | |
 | Robert Neilson Stephens, George Hembert Westley - 1907 - 376 pagina’s
...'* They have put into the papers a good story about White's. A man dropped down dead at the door and was carried in : the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not ; and when a surgeon was going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, declaring it would affect... | |
 | 1910 - 640 pagina’s
...man dropped dead at the door of the club, was carried in, and the members immediateh made bets as to whether he was dead or not, and " when they were going to bleed him, the wagerer for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet." But this latter... | |
 | Arthur Machen - 1926 - 252 pagina’s
...entertainment," the later club had become the headquarters of high play. Walpole writes in 1750 : " They have put in the papers a good story made on White's....and said it would affect the fairness of the bet." And so Lord Lyttleton says that he trembles to think that " the rattling of a dice-box at White's may... | |
 | Leopold Wagner - 1928 - 362 pagina’s
...kept on the hall table. According to an oft-told tale, once a man dropped down dead at the door and was carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or only in a fit, and when they were about to bleed him the wagerers for his deathjnterposed, saying it... | |
 | Tom Baker, Jonathan Simon - 2010 - 329 pagina’s
...incident at White's in which a man collapsed at the door to the club and was carried in. The members of the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when the surgeon prepared to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, objecting that the provision... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 554 pagina’s
...50.] TO MB. MONTAGU. 225 and was killed. I am glad ho never heard what poor Gibberne was intended for. They have put in the papers a good story made on White's...or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagcrcrs for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet. Mr. Whithed has... | |
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They have put in the papers a good story made on White's: a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in : the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and... 
