It was the same with gambling.
Fred was not a gambler: he had not that specific disease in which the suspension of the whole nervous energy on a chance or risk becomes as necessary as the dram to the drunkard; he had only the tendency to that diffusive form of gambling which has no alcoholic intensity, but is carried on with the healthiest chyle-fed blood, keeping up a joyous imaginative activity which fashions events according to desire, and having no fears about its own weather, only sees the advantage there must be to othe
My brother Solomon tells me it's the talk up and down in Middlemarch how unsteady young Vincy is, and has been forever gambling at billiards since home he came.
Until he married he led the ordinary life of his fellows, gambling mildly on the Exchange, interested to the extent of a sovereign or two on the result of the Derby or the Oxford and Cambridge Race.
Negative habits include overeating, gambling, smoking, drinking and taking drugs.
" I want you to help me stop my son gambling.
The result sparked somewhat of a fury among many Chinese, who wondered how foreigners could beat them at their national pastime — a game often synonymous with gambling in the modern age.
It was a three-day harvest festival that included drinking, gambling, athletic games, and even target shooting with English muskets.
But teenagers will still be banned from smoking, drinking alcohol and gambling until they are 20.
I got the award because of luck," said a humble Tu, who played a ruthless gambling addict who abandons his sick wife in the dark family drama "Old Beast".
Cultural events will be popular with the Lion in your life, as will gambling or anything exciting.
The character of Fan Shengmei, like Lu, is frequently forced by her parents to pay her brother's loans, gambling debts, and housing rent payments.
Local officials in Ningdu, in China's Jiangxi Province, have been banned from playing Mahjong in order to help clamp down on gambling.
To control for their brain response to other reward types, participants also played a monetary gambling task in which they could win or lose real money.
Politicians have clashed over plans to legalise casinos in Japan for the past 15 years, with strong opposition based largely around fears of gambling addiction and other social fall-out such as organised crime.
Lawmakers in the country this week cleared the way for the removal of a longstanding prohibition against gambling on blackjack, roulette and other casino games.
Unlike his mom-and-kid-friendly *singalong music videos–Grenade, Just the Way You Are and The Lazy Song –24K Magic celebrates glitz and *glamour, featuring scenes of jet-setting, gambling and drinking.
Others use them as bargaining chips in gambling when playing card games or participating in football pools.
According to the administration, examples of bad behavior include violating order on public transportation - including flights - damaging public facilities or historical relics, ignoring social customs at tourism destinations and becoming involved with gambling or prostitution.
From October 2009 to June 2010, it said, more than $85 million was spent on gambling in Las Vegas, jet rentals, luxury yachts and payments to other individuals.
