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  1.  The Skin Game / Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
    Project Gutenberg's The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays), by John Galsworthy ... at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays) Author: John Galsworthy Release Date  details...
  2.  Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of John Galsworthy / Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
    The Foundations The Skin Game Six Short Plays: The First and The Last ... , nao Censorship; just sy wot yer like- -an' never be 'eard of no more. THE SKIN GAME /gutenberg  details...
  3.  The Silly Syclopedia / Lott, Noah [pseud.]
    , because that is the flyest city in the world." [Illustration: "B--A Skin Game."] Beauty is only a skin game after all ... home with a game-bag full. TRUTH. The kind words our enemies say about us. Something which never  details...
  4.  The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    , glorious fight, and end the whole damn business! It's a skin game, that's what life is, and I'm sick of it ... and did not like the feel of it. "Life's a skin-game," he was fond of repeating, and on this one note he rang  details...
  5.  The Depot Master / Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944
    you give me the figures? They must be low, mind. No country skin games, you understand." "Hey?" Phinney ... . And the powwow that broke loose was somethin' tremendous. Of course 'twas plain enough what Dan's game was  details...
  6.  The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon / Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
    , I am decidedly opposed to the hollow expanding bullet for heavy, thick-skinned game. I have so frequently ... through the jungles determined not to lose sight of their game, soaked to the skin as they have waded  details...
  7.  From Sand Hill to Pine / Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
    suppose he's goin' to sit down and twiddle his thumbs with that skin game played on him? No, sir ... presently darkened into suspicion again. "Ef that's your little game," began Hiram, with a lowering brow  details...
  8.  Red Saunders / Phillips, Henry Wallace, 1869-1930
    'in' that feller's good dough--that's a skin game, to speak it pleasantly.' "Then Aggy argues the case with me ... "hyah-hayahing" in a style that made my skin get up and walk all over me with cold feet. How in blazes  details...
  9.  Frank Merriwell's Nobility The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp / Standish, Burt L., [pseud.]
    : "It's a skin game! I knew it was!" "What's the lay?" asked Merry. "That infernal Frenchman is a card ... more than amusement." "How's that?" asked Jack, interested. "I've noticed that he never cares for whist or any game  details...
  10.  A Waif of the Plains / Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
    side-locks, "d'ye mean ter tell me it wasn't a plant--a skin game--the hull thing?" "A what ... . For this purpose, he and Susy, early to-morrow morning, would get permission to come in here and play at that game  details...

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