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For instance, I have seen even fond mothers so far indulge their guileless, elegant daughters--misses of fifteen or sixteen--as to give them a few gold coins and teach them how to play; and though the young ladies may have won or have lost, they have invariably laughed, and departed as though they were well pleased.

But I have heard that the great-grandfather of Jikiza won the axe from him who held it in his day; he won it by fraud.

The important point is that, in his thirty-first year, after six seasons of untiring effort, Archibald went in for a championship, and won it.

The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.

The dispositions cited above are not at all worse, but are even better, than previous dispositions by which he had won victories.

I won the toss and after examining the wicket decided to take first knock.

What completed everything, and won for me the title of "Prince of the Oyster Beds," was that I was a good fellow ashore with my money, buying drinks like a man.

It was the freshness and the newness' of your beauty and you, the mystery of you, that won your man.

It was generally known in Middlemarch that a good deal of money was lost and won in this way; and the consequent repute of the Green Dragon as a place of dissipation naturally heightened in some quarters the temptation to go there.

"DEAR MADAM: We have much pleasure in informing you that your charming story `Averil's Atonement' has won the prize of twenty-five dollars offered in our recent competition.

Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds!

The initial move was won by U-Dor, following which the two Chiefs escorted their respective Princesses to the square each was to occupy.