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When it became known, however, to the officers of the garrison that there was a faro-table in town, they were wild to be admitted to the sport; and, in spite of my entreaties to the contrary, my uncle was not averse to allow the young gentlemen their fling, and once or twice cleared a handsome sum out of their purses.
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What sums of money were lost and won at the delicious faro-table!
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She found means of establishing a faro-table at her house, which is tolerated; and she joins to the most profligate conduct in her own person the infamous trade of a corrupter of youth; her house is the abode of every vice.
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Before the faro-table there was the greatest gathering.
Wild Bill's Last Trail Ned Buntline
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She found means of establishing a faro-table at her house, which is tolerated; and she joins to the most profligate conduct in her own person the infamous trade of a corrupter of youth; her house is the abode of every vice.
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I went down and took a survey of the house, and then I was introduced to the faro-table, where "Aud" was doing the honors.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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A faro-table was kept by Martindale, at which the Duchess and other high fashionables used to play.
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Thomson Willing
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She found means of establishing a faro-table at her house, which is tolerated; and she joins to the most profligate conduct in her own person the infamous trade of a corrupter of youth; her house is the abode of every vice.
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The first time I was at Brookes ', scarcely knowing any one, I joined, from mere shyness, in play at the faro-table, where George Selwyn kept bank.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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_ I am going to buy a new faro-table for my place up-town -- you know where.
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