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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE GAME IS UP»
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
G14 The Game is up c1720 Byrd Another Secret Diary 283: Let me therefore
conjure you dear Couzen til the dreadfull age of 31 (when you know a woman's
game is up) to mix 9 grams of folly with one of wisdome. 1776 Washington
Writings ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
The game is up. (APP 150; EAP 172; MP 248) 1829 'So the game is up!' (p. 178)
Disraeli, Benjamin. The Young Duke: *A Moral Tale, though Gay. " 1829. New
York: George Routledge and Sons, 1853. 1830 MARQUIS: The game is up with
the ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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The IOS
Game Programming Collection
This is where the game is up- dated and rendered once per game cycle, and is
the result of the simple game loop shown in Listing 4.1. It is quick and easy to
implement, which was great when I first started the game, but it does have issues.
Michael Daley, Michael Daley, Rod Strougo, and Ray Wenderlich, Rod Strougo, 2011
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
The game is up. Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 3. (b) The scheme has failed ; all is at an
end. [Colloq.] The universal opinion is that the game is irrecoverably up, and that
the tory party will be in power for fifty years to come. S. Dowell, Taxes in England,
...
5
Encyclopaedia Of Quotable Couplets
... high stakes game Only in name the zero sum game People play the game all
in gods name The game is up if you give up There is a name for the spelling
game They all seek the same it's the name of the game Time frame is the clocks
game ...
6
The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of
the ...
See candle.— The game Is up. (a) In hunting, the game is started. He that strikes
The venison first shall be lord o' the feast. . . . Hark! the game is rous'd ! — . . . The
game is up. Shak., Cymbellne, ili. 3. (d) The scheme has failed ; all is at au end.
William Dwight Whitney, 1889
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
The Century ...
The game is up. Shah, Cymbeline, iii. 8. (b) The scheme has failed; all is at an
end. [Colloq.] The universal opinion is that the game is irrecoverably up, and that
the tory party will be in power for fifty years to come. S. Dowell, Taxes in England,
...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1900
Written by someone who spent his life in the Rainforest this book has the added benefit of being written by someone who has been there lived there and experienced the culture not just someone who has read the encyclopaedias.
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The Spirit of
the Game: Navigational AIDS for
the Next Century
The labours of creative efforts may produce only stillborn issue; massive personal
stakes may all be lost when the game is up. The element of risk and the
differences in playing strength are proportional to the level of the game. Poor
players ...
10
Portable Play in Everyday Life:
The Nintendo DS
In the case of packing for long trips, the main concern is whether the game is up
to demands of the situation in which it will be played. The focus of the comments
is less on how a game might allow access to an emotional state than on how ...
