"I say," said East, stopping to look at him and rest his leg, "you're a trump , Brown.

There rose the choral hymn of praise, And trump and timbrel answer'd keen, And Zion's daughters pour'd their lays, With priest's and warrior's voice between.

Joan Durbeyfield always managed to find consolation somewhere: "Well, as one of the genuine stock, she ought to make her way with 'en, if she plays her trump card aright.

"Well, my love, I consider him a trump , in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer."

All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.

"I think they have been trying to keep us apart," she continued, "for whenever you have been off duty one of the older women of Tars Tarkas' retinue has always arranged to trump up some excuse to get Sola and me out of sight.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel.

It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance.

Arnold announced, with undiminished good-humor, that he saw his way clearly, now, to losing the game, and then played his first card--the Queen of Trumps !

Vanity occasionally leads a man to display wealth, but sooner or later the Emperor trumps up a charge against him--any sort of one will do--and confiscates his property.