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Poetry cards with box
Poetry cards with box
An unpacked wooden box with a pattern of white chrysanthemums. In front of the box some playing cards with the picture of a famous Japanese poet and part of his or her poem. The cards are part of a poetry game based on the "Hyakunin isshu" (100 poems by 100 poets) and kept in the wooden box. The three poems at the top left each refer to one of the three depicted cards.
  1. (n) cards
    a game played with playing cards
Illustrations
Guard room or short cooker in which monkeys as soldiers play cards and dice, drink and smoke. At the door a cat is brought in by two guards. In the caption two four-line verses.
Guard room or short cooker in which monkeys as soldiers play cards and dice, drink and smoke. At the door a cat is brought in by two guards. In the caption two four-line verses.
Peasant fight. An argument between drunk peasants playing card at a table outside an inn. Two farmers draw swords, women try to stop them. Right pigs in the mud.
Peasant fight
Two men play cards at a round table in the company of a woman. She shows the man sitting opposite her, by means of the mirror in her hand, the cards that his opponent is holding.
Couple cheating on cards
A short cook. In one to the right, two soldiers playing cards and smoking, with a woman sitting on a chest. On the left, a standing officer watches a servant saddle his horse. In the foreground is a dog, in the background a woman is standing in the doorway.
A short cook
Soldier's watch. Waiting room with a group of soldiers playing cards. In the foreground are pieces of armor, weapons, banners and drums. A lantern hangs on a rope above the table. More standing and seated soldiers in the background.
Soldier's watch
A richly dressed man, losing his money on the deck. Seventh print from a series of eighteen.
Losing card player
Wooden card box with two decks of cards in it. The logo of Rotterdam Lloyd on the box. The games have resp. a green or red reverse. They both have a rose in the center. The cards from the jack to the ace have the representation of important persons or buildings in the Dutch East Indies.
Wooden card box with two decks of cards in it. The logo of Rotterdam Lloyd on the box. The games have resp. a green or red reverse. They both have a rose in the center. The cards from the jack to the ace have the representation of important persons or buildings in the Dutch East Indies.
Fake card games. Interior of an inn with a party seated around a table. A young woman smilingly shows her cards, her opponent, an old man, looks at his cards in bewilderment. Behind this man is a woman with a mirror. On the right a sitting dog and a fireplace, on the left drunken farmers.
Fake card games
Quotations
Flip Wilson
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Farouk I
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Farouk I
Josh Billings
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Miguel De Cervantes
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Miguel De Cervantes
Jim Lovell
I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
Jim Lovell
Idioms

Card up your sleeve - If you have a card up your sleeve, you have a surprise plan or idea that you are keeping back until the time is right.

Drawing card - (USA) A famous person who attracts people to attend an event is a drawing card.

House of cards - Something that is poorly thought out and can easily collapse or fail is a house of cards.

In the cards - If something is in the cards, it is bound to occur, it is going to happen, or it is inevitable.

Mark someone's card - If you mark someone's card, you correct them in a forceful and prompt manner when they say something wrong.

On the cards - (UK) If something is in the cards, it is almost certain to happen.

Usage in the news

Police said the gift cards in his wallet were linked to other people's credit card accounts. thetimes-tribune.com

As part of the Credit Card Act of 2009, no gift card purchased after August 2010 can expire in less than five years. bng.com

All card designs can be customized with your company greeting and logo with a minimum order of 500 cards . livedesignonline.com

Chicago school officials are considering a plan to smart- card technology on students' reduced-fare transit cards to crack down on truancy. asumag.com

Twitter Cards have been in the news since last week, when Instagram pulled its Twitter Cards integration. pcmag.com

The "valid thru" date for a gift card is the date through which your physical plastic gift card or eGift card number may be used. indianasnewscenter.com

Keep the card number and the four-digit card security code in a safe place in case your card gets lost or stolen. indianasnewscenter.com

"To get the most value, you want to go with a store-branded gift card as opposed to a general-purpose gift card that has the Visa, MasterCard or American Express logo on them," said Janna Herron, a credit card analyst at Bankrate. klyq.com

However, for credit- card issuers, the offer for business credit is usually a take-it-or-leave-it proposition--and you must accept the personal guarantee if you want the card . entrepreneur.com

There's a website with gift card shopping called "Community Change" and its "Charity Cards ". nbc15.com

Now, we're just letting - now it's clear that you're just sending them a card because they sent you a card . amc.org

The Hallmark card people estimate that each year we buy and make billions of Christmas cards -- finding just the right saying with the nicest picture and the proper envelope. 10tv.com

This new card has touch sensitive buttons and an LCD screen so your information will display on the card itself after you enter a password. thebusfm.com

Prizes are a $100 gift card for first place, $50 gift card for second and $25 gift card for third. thebeacon.net

A number of analysts have documented that when EMV takes hold in a given area, it is very effective in reducing most forms of card fraud-counterfeit, lost/stolen, card ID theft. ababj.com

Usage in scientific papers

And, as in Section 3.3.2, it is linear according to the maximum of Card(Xi ) and to the maximum of Card(Qi ), in time as well as in space requirements.
Uniform Random Sampling of Traces in Very Large Models

Hence, if the left pack contains a cards and the right pack b cards, the next card drops from the left pack with probability a/(a + b).
The cutoff phenomenon for randomized riffle shuffles

It is reasonable to guess that shuffling cards with an (m + 1)-shuffle is more efficient than shuffling cards with an m-shuffle .
The cutoff phenomenon for randomized riffle shuffles

This is the probability that a deck of n cards is in arrangement π after an inverse face-up facedown shuffle : Remove a subset of cards from the deck, letting all subsets have the same chance of being selected, and place the packet face down on top of the remaining cards.
Random walks on quasisymmetric functions

Clusters and Cluster Properties Rd (cid:12)(cid:12) card(X ) < +∞o Similar to the above mentioned models for an ideal gas, randomness enters the approach be the space of clusters in Rd (here card(X ) denotes the cardinality of a set X ).
Random Cluster Tessellations

Usage in literature

Once she gave six cards in succession correctly. "Psychology and Social Sanity" by Hugo Münsterberg

The small, green space-fitness cards were arriving at Jarviston addresses in the morning. "The Planet Strappers" by Raymond Zinke Gallun

Maria sent him a post-card for his onomastico, and the widow got hold of it. "Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions" by Henry Festing Jones

Calderon has not deemed it incumbent upon him to demand a card from Cadwallader. "The Flag of Distress" by Mayne Reid

Yet these figures are cut from advertising cards, and no two from the same card. "Little Folks' Handy Book" by Lina Beard

There were three men sitting about a table, playing cards. "The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers" by Claude A. Labelle

On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card. "Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium" by Jessie H. Bancroft

We'll each give them our own place-card and box, too. "Patty's Social Season" by Carolyn Wells

At last Kenwardine threw down the cards. "Brandon of the Engineers" by Harold Bindloss

As the card to the church only, is rather an equivocal compliment, mailing cards in this case could be excused. "The Complete Bachelor" by Walter Germain

Usage in poetry
Unseen, who women held so dear,
The strong man's yearning to his kind
Shall shake at most the window-blind,
Or dull awhile the card-room's cheer.
"Possibilities" by Rudyard Kipling Author object (589)
Dark aisles, new packs of cards,
Mermaidens' tails, cool swards,
Dawn dews and starlit seas,
White marbles, whiter words -
To live, I think of these!
"Ballade Made In The Hot Weather" by William Ernest Henley Author object (703)
His father and mother were dead him froe,
And so was the head of all his kinne;
He did neither cease nor blinne
To the cards and dice that he did run.
"The Heir Of Lynne" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
Till one arose, and from his pack`s scant treasure
A hoarded volume drew,
And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure
To hear the tale anew.
"Dickens In Camp" by Francis Bret Harte
At her low quaint wheel she sits to spin,
Deftly drawing the long, light rolls
Of carded wool through her finders thin,
By the fireside at the Isles of Shoals.
"Karen" by Celia Laighton Thaxter
In David's sweet page, or the Gospels, engage,
Instead of your cards and your dice:
More proper by far, those holy books are,
Than them spotted panders to vice.
"Another Invitation, Or Exhortation To Worship Christ Jesus" by Rees Prichard