 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...  The History of Gambling in England - Page 156by John Ashton - 1898 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 pages
...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, f which he hnd just repaired, burnt... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...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...interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet Mr. Wbithed has been so unlucky as to have a large part of his seat,2 which he had just repaired, burnt... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...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...interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet Mr. Whithed has been so unlucky as to have a large part of his seat,2 which he had just repaired, burnt... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1848 - 908 pages
...time dropped down dead at the door of White's club house, into which he was carried ; the members of the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not ; and upon its being proposed to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, alleging that it would... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...&c., less piquant : ' White's ' is particularly full. We select a few characteristic anecdotes : — ' They have put in the papers a good story made on White's....and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.' — Walpole. ' Very often the taste of running perpetually after diversions is not a mark of any pleasure... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...&c., less piquant : ' White's ' is particularly full. We select a few characteristic anecdotes : — 'They have put in the papers a good story made on...when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for iiis death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.' — Walpole. ' Very often... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 612 pages
...&c., less piquant : ' White's ' is particularly full. We select a few characteristic anecdotes : — ' They have put in the papers a good story made on White's....carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether h« was dead or not ; and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 588 pages
...Walpole's 'Letters' (Toynbee), iii. 14 :— " 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 beta whether ho wa» dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagercrs for his death... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1850 - 882 pages
...time dropped down dead at the door of White's club house, into which he was carried ; the members of the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not ; and upon its being proposed to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, alleging that it would... | |
 | William Gaspey - London (England) - 1851 - 496 pages
...characteristic story appeared in the papers of 1750. "A man who dropped down dead at the door of White's was carried in; the club immediately made bets whether...and said it would affect the fairness of the bet." Pall-mall, however, is the western region in which the club-houses most abound, the greater part of... | |
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