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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-07-02 05:47 pm

Potential Titles: Gamble

Who but a witless gambler plays for farthing stakes - Stella Benson "Two Women Sing"

To gamble on their scales and the wealth of their breath - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

The gamble of the recipe is salt and sweat - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

My husband gambled on my penumbra - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"

Turned each field into a gambler's hell - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

That gambled with the souls of men - Margaret Leigh "Two Epitaphs: I. On a Diplomat"

All had drunk the wind of gambling - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]


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