After the fasse was turned up, and the talliere and croupiere had looked round the cards on the table, and taken advantage of the money laid on them, the former proceeded with his deal ; and the next card appearing, whether the king, queen, ace, or whatever it might be, won for the player, the latter might receive it, or making paroli, as before said, go on to sept-et-le-va.

The bold player who was lucky and adventurous, and could push on his couch with a considerable stake to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, etc., must in a wonderful manner have multiplied his couch, or first stake ; but this was seldom done ; and the loss of the players, by the very nature of the game, invariably exceeded that of the bank ; in fact, this game was altogether in favour of the bank ; and yet it is evident that, in spite of this obvious conviction, the game must have been one of the most tempting and fascinating that was ever invented.

When the couch was alpieued, or parolied, to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, etc., the punter's gains were prodigious.

The early inscriptions of Urukagina in fact go so far as to suggest that the divine pair, Enki and Ninki, were the progenators of seven pairs of gods, including Enki as god of Eridu, Enlil of Nippur, and Su ' en ( or Sin ) of Ur, and were themselves the children of An ( sky, heaven ) and Ki ( earth ).

" Hawks worked on the script with Seton I. Miller, with whom he would go on to collaborate with on seven more films.

In the book, the animals were told that after their miserable lives were over they would go to a place in which " it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges ".

There are seven hells, each for a varying degree of suffering a soul has to go through as consequences of its negative karmic effects.

In an early and highly influential article, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, the psychologist George Miller suggested that human short-term memory has a forward memory span of approximately seven items plus or minus two and that that was well known at the time ( it seems to go back to the 19th-century researcher Wundt ).

It is calculated that a CFC molecule takes an average of about five to seven years to go from the ground level up to the upper atmosphere, and it can stay there for about a century, destroying up to one hundred thousand ozone molecules during that time.

Daniel chapter 4 contains an account of Nebuchadnezzar's dream about an immense tree, which Daniel interprets to mean that Nebuchadnezzar will go insane for seven years because of his pride.

In 1965, he made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot, " The Cage ", and would go on to play the character of Mr. Spock until 1969, followed by seven feature films and guest slots in various sequels.

According to early histories, the offer of Andrew Holmes ' log house as capitol for seven years, a number of town lots, £ 50 worth of locks and hinges, 10 boxes of glass, 1, 500 pounds of nails, and $ 3, 000 in gold helped the decision go to Frankfort.

Balak meets with Balaam at Kirjat Huzoth, and they go to the high places of Baal ( Biblical Hebrew: בעל ), and offer sacrifices on seven altars, leading to Balaam being given a prophecy by Yahweh, which he speaks to Balak.

It was also mentioned that they can only go back in time seven days due to the limited quantity of the fuel source.

With seven metres to go Wells began an extreme lean which allowed his head and shoulder to cross the finish line before Leonard's chest in a photo finish ; both men were given a final time of 10. 25 s. Wells became the oldest Olympic 100 m champion at that time.

They live together for seven winters, until the women fly off to go to a battle and do not return.

Since 2002, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has reported seven plague outbreaks, though some may go unreported because they often happen in remote areas.

As Arison began remodeling the Miami Heat into a championship-contending organization, the continued improvements of the Heat players garnered major media attention, although the Heat would go on to miss the playoffs for the fifth time in seven years.

With these additional players and the previous year's starting five, the Bulls again made it to the Conference Finals, and pushed the Pistons to seven games before being edged out for the third straight year, who would go on to repeat as NBA champions.

After the seven years they go to Gwales in Penfro, where they remain for fourscore ( 80 ) years.

7-Laying a 7 means that the next player must match or go lower than a seven.

Many go to the Hazleton Area High School, located seven miles away, or Marian Catholic High School, located eight miles away.

He left a note to his wife saying: " The time is twenty past seven ; I go to search in the lake for eternal sleep.

Whedon has expressed regret over not being able to go further with Dawn's character in season seven, but, as he says, " You get into a situation that you do like to stand alone ' Dawn Goes on a Date ' is not something that people would really sit for.

Henry Hathaway made his directorial debut with Heritage of the Desert ; he would go on to direct a total of seven out of the 10 Zane Grey adaptations that Scott would appear in.

With seven years to go on his contract, MCA dropped him from the label.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

Each civilian tile also has a Chinese name ( and common rough translation to English ): The 6-6 is tin ( 天 heaven ), 1-1 is dei ( 地 earth ), 4-4 is yan ( 人 man ), 1-3 is ngo ( 鵝 goose or 和 harmony ), 5-5 is mui ( 梅 plum flower ), 3-3 is cheung ( 長 long ), 2-2 is ban ( 板 board ), 5-6 is fu ( 斧 hatchet ), 4-6 is ping ( 屏 partition ), 1-6 is tsat ( 七 ) ( long leg seven ), and 1-5 is luk ( 六 ) ( big head six ).

Satellite image showing the seven main geographical regions of Hungary ( in parenthesis: major region ): 1., Great Alföld ( Great Alföld ) 2., North Hungarian Mountains ( North Hungarian Mountains ) 3., Transdanubian Mountains ( Transdanubia ) 4., Transdanubia | Transdanubian Hills ( Transdanubia ) 5., Mecsek Mountains ( Transdanubia ) 6., Little Alföld ( Transdanubia ) 7., Alpokalja ( Transdanubia )

Hungary has three major geographic regions ( which are subdivided to seven smaller ones ): the Great Alföld, lying east of the Danube River ; the Transdanubia, a hilly region lying west of the Danube and extending to the Austrian foothills of the Alps ; and the North Hungarian Mountains, which is a mountainous and hilly country beyond the northern boundary of the Great Hungarian Plain.

In 2006, there were eighty-eight administrative territorial divisions ( called federal subjects ): twenty-one republics, seven krais ( territories ), forty-eight oblasts ( provinces ), one autonomous oblast, and nine autonomous okrugs.

They had seven children ( five sons and two daughters ): Eliza Arabella Garfield ( 1860 – 63 ); Harry Augustus Garfield ( 1863 – 1942 ); James Rudolph Garfield ( 1865 – 1950 ); Mary Garfield ( 1867 – 1947 ); Irvin M. Garfield ( 1870 – 1951 ); Abram Garfield ( 1872 – 1958 ); and Edward Garfield ( 1874 – 76 ).

# Temple offering ( קרבן ): On the seven days of Sukkot, the additional ( מוסף ) offerings included 2 rams and 14 lambs each day, along with a series of 70 bulls in decreasing numbers over the week.

The suite has seven movements, each named after a planet and its corresponding astrological character ( see Planets in astrology ):

Andorrans live in seven urbanized valleys that form Andorra's political districts the seven parròquies ( parishes ):

The vast majority of the population clusters in the capital city of Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, which also serves as the capital of the Autonomous Community, but the remainder of the territory is sparsely inhabited with population nuclei distributed into seven counties ( cuadrillas ): Añana ; Ayala ; Campezo ; Laguardia ; Salvatierra ; Vitoria-Gasteiz ; Zuya.

Prince Thomas Francis and Marie had seven children who survived infancy ( Italian names in parentheses ):

Thomas and Marie de Bourbon had seven children who survived infancy ( Italian names in parentheses ):

According to Pliny the Elder it had in ancient times seven distributaries ( east to west ):

The following four of the original seven pilot characters were identical to those of the series ( including the actor / actress cast for each role ): Gilligan, the Captain, and the two Howells.

These communities are as follows ( with 2010 populations listed for the seven census-designated places ):

To which Fitzgerald adds the following footnote ( 1st edition, 1859 ): " Bahram Gur-Bahram of the Wild Ass from his fame in hunting it-a Sassanian sovereign, had also his seven palaces, each of a different colour ; each with a Royal mistress within ; each of whom recounts to Bahram a romance.

At the time of his death, he left seven children, 23 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren ( as of 2011 ):

The last " Greek " philosophers of the revived Akademia in the 6th century were drawn from various parts of the Hellenistic cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture ( see koine ): Five of the seven Akademia philosophers mentioned by Agathias were Syriac in their cultural origin: Hermias and Diogenes ( both from Phoenicia ), Isidorus of Gaza, Damascius of Syria, Iamblichus of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia.

There are seven incorporated municipalities within Kings County ( listed by 2011 population counts and national census rankings ):

* Diabetes mellitus similar but not identical to human Type I ( insulin deficiency ): The disease occurs in middle-aged Samoyeds, the mean age at diagnosis is seven years.

* Reed, Chester Albert ( 1914 ): The bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.