Crossword-Solution: LOSINGS 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

They were often under the necessity of borrowing either to play, or to pay their losings; and how very ductile and complying they were to those of whom they had to borrow was well known.' From that time gamesters swarmed all over France; they multiplied rapidly in every profession, even among the magistracy.

You never see here a pile of gold or bank notes on the table, as at Hombourg or Wiesbaden, with the player saying, "Cinquante louis aux billet," "Cent-vingt louis a la masse," and the winnings scrupulously paid, or the losings raked carefully away from the heap.

Lug out your losings," said his adversary with a laugh; and the man left hold of my waist and began fumbling in his pouch.

How on earth can you rack and harry and post a man for his losings, when you are fond of his wife, and live in the same Station with him? He says, “on the Monday following, I can't settle just yet.” You say, “All right, old man,” and think your self lucky if you pull off nine hundred out of a two-thousand rupee debt.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.