"Craps" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Europe he drifted; and instantly and everywhere appeared the awful Yankee—shooting wells in Hungary, shooting craps in Monaco, digging antiques in Greece, digging tunnels in Servia,—everywhere the Yankee, drilling, bridging, constructing, exploring, pushing, arguing, quarrelling, insisting, telegraphing, gambling, ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... craps way short; the rills Couldn't turn the silent mills; But the light's behind the ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... was Eddie Brandes; his first fortune of three dollars was amassed at craps; he became a hanger-on in ward politics, at race-tracks, stable, club, squared ring, vaudeville, burlesque. Long Acre attracted him—but always the gambling end ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... a stranger shows up here who don't know nobody, he never sees nothing and he don't never learn nothing. He gets no hootch outa me. No, nor no craps and no cards. He gets his supper; that's what he gets ... and a dance, if there's ladies—and if any girl favours him. That's all the change any stranger gets ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... to spend money to get craps," said Mike; "look at our corn and pertaters. They is fust rate, and when we sends our craps to market, there won't be much to take for 'spenses out ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton
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