How to use in-sentence of “whist”:
– A duplicate whist drive has placings N/S and placings E/W.
– The traditional game of whist is still played at social events called “whist drives”.
– Chapter 17, From Whist to Bridge, p220.
– He invented the boards which hold the cards, and the movement for whist drives, in the 1890s.
– It appears again in Seymour’s “Court Gamester” of 1719, and we know that whist was played in some coffee houses in London.
– The first game of duplicate whist was organised by “Cavendish” in London 1857, but it was not followed up.
– He died in 1966 of an accidental morphine overdose whist on trial.
– Many basic ideas in card-play were discovered by whist players, and survive today in contract bridge.
