And on occasions, when the deuces hadn't been runnin' his way, or the night had been wilder than usual, he was quite rough about it.
Wine, women and the deuces wild was his specialties, and when little wifie tried to read the riot act to him at 3 a.
A single, small, lonely, ashamed-looking pair ofdeuces confronted him.
Wallingford's miserable two deuceshad won a two-hundred-and-forty-dollar pot.
The Kid had a pair of kings against a possible pair of tens or deuces on the gambler's side.
The cards showed a pair of deuces and a ten-spot spread out before Three-Ace Artie, a pair of kings and an eight-spot in front of the Kid.
Take off yore hats, boys, to the man that ran a bluff on the Dinsmore outfit an' made a pair of deuces stick against a royal flush.
A pair of deuces is good as a full house when your hand ain't called.
He laid down two aces and two deuces, which under the cutthroat rule of "deuces wild" he was privileged to call four aces.
This sort of game with "the roof off anddeuces wild," was not good for the morale of his junior officers, mused the major.
Now this man in front of The Three Deuces was not the sheriff.
The four galloping horsemen were abreast The Three Deuces when the cry of "Robbers!
As for the elderly citizen of deceptive appearance, he walked uptown to a hardware store, replenished his supply of ammunition and returned to The Three Deuces in a highly cheerful frame of mind.
His hue and cry aroused to action an apparently inoffensive and elderly citizen who was taking his siesta in front of The Three Deuces saloon.
They're a pair all right, and they'd make a great hand if you was playin' deuces wild.
He did not say it boastfully as a man who likes to draw to a pair of deuces and who always expects to fill.
He said after his nomination at Chicago, "We drew to a pair of deuces and filled.
He does not like to hold a pair of deucesand be forced to draw to them.
Joker and deuces wild," he repeated as if fascinated.
And so we all of us hold hands, which, among deuces and treys, have some court-cards.
Perhaps Asmodeus may have pined in grief, playing his little deuces and never winning the great stake of fame;--but who shall tell?
How many poor, unlucky wights turn up deuces all their life, while others, born under luckier stars, hold a fistful of kings and queens!
To no avail: for this wide dominion was destined to pass to hands firmer to hold, if slower to acquire.
Then followed the work of demolishing Fort William Henry, and soon its blazing ruins, a funeral pyre for the slaughtered garrison, lit up the summer night, and cast a lurid flame soon to kindle the avenging wrath of England.
The years of Bigot's régime were the lean years of the city, and this influx of a thousand new starvelings was a most unwelcome addition to the population.
Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers for ever departed!
The Devil played ’em for me—the black Devil of the dirty deuces with the fiery feet that have been kicking me hellward for three aching years!
But night and day the deuces have followed me and tortured me.
Frenchy picked up the four deuces and held them tremblingly before the staring crowd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deuces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
