Sentence Examples:
The moon took this as a promising sign and brightened over it perceptibly, and thereby afforded him an excellent gambit.
As if that kind of thing wasn't one of the best and oldest gambits in the great game of matrimony!
Gambit was told that Lydgate went about saying physic was of no use.
Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check?
Wilkinson did not know it either, but it could not be disproved, and served excellently as a gambit.
It was my task to quash this gambit, without giving any indication that I was aware of its existence.
The gambits of feeling, senses, and logic were even fallible when working together.
Some purists suggested a firing party as a fitting end for these gambits, but that would have been a waste.
I call it (in private) the "rook gambit."
Are stocks and scrip and dividends allied to gambits and mates?
He made a note of the gambit for use in companies that were more appreciative of the subtleties.
Formerly, when Gambits generally were more in vogue, the Scotch Gambit enjoyed corresponding popularity.
Although, in the majority of Gambits, the defense should obtain, if not an advantage, at least an even game, some players (fearing to give their opponent the chance of a sudden and vigorous attack) decline to accept the Gambit.
Gambit spoke scornfully of this act of kindness, which was entirely unexpected by me.
Gambit carried for me in her basket, and tied the basket to her arm; and my box of clothes.
He waited, however, as if wondering what to say, and Matilda, accustomed to social chatter, gave him a gambit.
He soon mastered the moves and the chief gambits and commoner closing positions, and began to beat the Vicar.
He decided on a gambit of innocent raillery.
Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check?
It casts in doubt the wisdom of the Vilnius Group's American gambit.
These gambits are as necessary to the first-rate player as are classifications to the naturalist.
Well, but you know what sort of nonsense that smug gambit heralds in letters from your kindred.