faro-bank

All the luxuries becoming my station could not, of course, be purchased without credit and money: to procure which, as our patrimony had been wasted by our ancestors, and we were above the vulgarity and slow returns and doubtful chances of trade, my uncle kept a faro-bank.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Fortune smiling at parting upon Monsieur de Balibari, enabled him to win a handsome sum with his faro-bank.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

I have seen seventy play-tables set out in the grand gallery of Ludwigslust, besides the faro-bank; where the Duke himself would graciously come and play, and win or lose with a truly royal splendour.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The stock was so worthless it could be sold only “to people who would take a risk as they would at a faro-bank.”

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

The stock was so worthless it could be sold only “to people who would take a risk as they would at a faro-bank.”

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

"He's been a-gamblin 'since four this afternoon, dealin' faro-bank."

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

He had set up a shack where he operated a roulette-wheel and faro-bank, and was very much attached to the child.

The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

"We'll have to proceed on the faro-bank formula that all bets go as they lay," I said lightly.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

At night myself and a companion would go over to a gorgeously furnished faro-bank and get our midnight lunch.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

At night myself and a companion would go over to a gorgeously furnished faro-bank and get our midnight lunch.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905