English vocabulary examples in context: backgammon
Vocabulary in context: backgammon -- Example 1.
Then turning to Mr. Bennet, he offered himself as his antagonist at backgammon.
Vocabulary in context: backgammon -- Example 2.
Mrs. Bennet and her daughters apologised most civilly for Lydia's interruption, and promised that it should not occur again, if he would resume his book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared for backgammon.
Vocabulary in context: backgammon -- Example 3.
But it was not only by playing at backgammon with the Baronet, that the little governess rendered herself agreeable to her employer.
Vocabulary in context: backgammon -- Example 4.
Before breakfast, a walk with Sir Pitt and his spud; after breakfast studies (such as they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner, Mr. Crawley's discourses on the baronet's backgammon; during both of which amusements my lady looks on with equal placidity.
Vocabulary in context: backgammon -- Example 5.
I'm an old man now, and like my own ways, and my pipe and backgammon of a night.' 'I can play at backgammon, sir,' said Lady Jane, laughing.'I used to play with Papa and Miss Crawley, didn't I, Mr. Crawley?' 'Lady Jane can play, sir, at the game to which you state that you are so partial,' Pitt said haughtily.
