 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 386 pages
...made purposely for ombre. Attention and quietness are said to be absolutely necessary for this game ;. for if a player be ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if his thoughts are diverted, ox he is disturbed by the conversation of bystanders. The Spaniards occasionally... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...made purposely for ombre. Attention and quietness are said to be absolutely necessary for this game ; for if a player be ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if his thoughts are diverted, or he is disturbed by the conversation of bystanders. The Spaniards occasionally... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...ombre. Attention and quietness are said to be absolutely necessary for this game ; for if a player he ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if his thoughts are diverted, or he is disturbed by the conversation of bystanders. The Spaniards occasionally... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 368 pages
...ombre. Attention and quietness are said to be absolutely necessary for th's game ; for if a player he ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if his thoughts are diverted, or he is disturbed by the conversation of bystanders. The Spaniards occasionally... | |
 | 1874 - 858 pages
...gamesters, and is called the MAN. To play it well requires a great deal of application ; and let a man be ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if 1 Pronounced, not as ill French, but Omtri. he think of anything else, or is disturbed by the conversation... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1874 - 612 pages
...gamesters, and is called the MAN. To play it well requires a great deal of application ; and let a man he ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if he think of anything else, or is disturbed by the conversation of those that look on. "Attention and quietness... | |
 | 1874 - 752 pages
...gamesters, and is called tlic ***• " play it well requires a great deal of application ; andlw»* be ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if h< i-"" of anything else, or is disturbed by the conversation of • that look on. "Attention and quietness... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1056 pages
...gamesters, and is called the man. To play it well requires a great deal of application, and let a man be ever so expert, he will be apt to fall into mistakes if he think of anything else or is disturbed by the conversation of them that look on. ... It will be found... | |
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It was so named as requiring thought and reflection, which are qualities peculiar to man, or rather alluding to him who undertakes to play the game against the rest of the gamesters, and is called the man. 