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trick Cards a. a batch of cards containing one from each player, usually played in turn and won by the player or side that plays the card with the highest value b. a card that can potentially win a trick How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Grownups imagine that they can do the trick by adopting baby language and talking down to their very critical audience. One often sees them, at the tables in the Castle grounds, using their whips or canes to illustrate some new sword trick which they have heard about; and between the duels, on the day whose history I have been writing, the swords were not always idle; every now and then we heard a succession of the keen hissing sounds which the sword makes when it is being put through its paces in the air, and this informed us that a student was practicing. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. |
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