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  • The coupier nods; the wheel spins round; she loses.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • There was not a roulette table in the Casino, but there was one conveniently adjacent thereto, managed by a clique of New York gamblers, which had both a single "and a double O," and, as appeared when the municipality made a descent upon the place, was ingeniously wired to throw the ball wherever the presiding coupier wanted it to go.

    Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • There was not a roulette table in the Casino, but there was one conveniently adjacent thereto, managed by a clique of New York gamblers, which had both a single "and a double O," and, as appeared when the municipality made a descent upon the place, was ingeniously wired to throw the ball wherever the presiding coupier wanted it to go.

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • a descent upon the place, was ingeniously wired to throw the ball wherever the presiding coupier wanted it to go.

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

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