10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NO-TRUMPER»
Discover the use of
no-trumper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
no-trumper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Complete Hoyle's Games
This is a sort of safety-valve to guard the No- trumper, who, as we have seen, can
always go back to two No-trumps if the suit call does not fit in with his holding. (3)
The forced bid. Any except a free bid is a forced bid. After dealer's free bid, 2nd ...
Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson, 1950
... make certain that you also have a guard in such a suit ; without it the risk is too
great and it would be wiser to shift to 2 in a major suit, if you can, when it would
still be open to partner to rebid his No-trumper without increasing the contract.
The shower stall was bone dry. “No Trumper cologne,” he said. “Maybe Prosper's
switched to Old Spice.” “We'll dust it for prints,” promised Kale, before returning to
his phone call. The bathroom itself was smaller than Cadel had anticipated.
4
The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection
No Grace, no Ranjitsinhji, no Trumper, no Hobbs could have surpassed his
batting! This score by Macartney was the middle of three Test centuries in
succession. He charmed a Lord's crowd with 133 ('By cripes,' he was reported to
have said ...
David John Headon, Headon, David (ed.), 2001
5
Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem. Done ...
3 x- ' This Wilderness doth us in sasetyv keep, ' H No thundring Drum, no
Trumper breaks our (Sleep. , _9_ Haply just Heav'ns Defence and ShieldoPRi-'
ghg'f Doth love the lnnocence of simple Swains, - _-I si' The Thunderbolts on
highest ...
Torquato Tasso, Edward FAIRFAX, 1726
6
Between Grammar and Lexicon
1929 In deciding whether to advance the No Trump. .the no trumper's partner
uses the same count, q. 1934 'All out for the half-mileV. . .Why did none of the
other half-milers move? r. 1959 'Marta..said you wanted something looked up.
Ellen Contini-Morava, Y. Tobin, 2000
7
Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
1899 A. DUNN Bridge 29 As the dealer's hand is not worth a single trick, a light '
no-trumper' means absolute ruin. 1906 W. DALTON 'Saturday' Bridge ii. 46 A light
No Trump, however anaemic it may be, is always preferable to a light red suit ...
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
8
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1925
... (25-10448 ) 3667 Foster, Robert Frederick, 1853- Foster's modern bridge
tactics, a complete exposition of the latest theories of four-card suit bids,
approaching bids, and suit distribution, together with an entirely new theory of the
no-trumper, ...
Library of Congress. Copyright Office, 1926
9
In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
The tableau in the House of Lords was unprecedentedly magnificent (Henry
Channon thought it like 'a six no-trumper at bridge'): but the peerage was
increasingly marginal to British political life.49 As such, the whole pageant of the
state ...
“You and I, Bill – and an original no trumper of mine is open to the gravest
suspicion.” Yes – the tension had begun. To what extent it had grown I don't know
: but it was there. As I say, I realised that afterwards. John Somerville suspected
his ...
