Word: pokerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Forgot to write my diary yesterday. Don't remember what I did. To-day, felt sleepy and had a bad headache. Must take care of myself, and so shall not go to recitations till I feel better. Eve., played poker...
Also played poker...
...Lord!" I groaned to myself, "it's all up with me now. That miserable fool, Billy Lawson, who was down last week and lost $5 to me at poker, has given me dead away. No more shall I fish the streams of Smithfield Centre, or stroll in the woods with my pretty cousin Priscilla. Uncle Luther will never invite again such a godless sinner as I am to spend the summer at his house...
...poker we're playing, old fellow, not whist," said Chaucer...