Card game with sets and sequences

Usage examples of rummy.

I merely watch and, as I do so, I find myself unaccountably invaded by an intense happiness, such as I have not known since the far-off days of Rosie Pierpoint, of tennis lessons, of games of Rummy, of the gift of dinner napkins.

Christ, you almost get killed and these other two twenty-six year old rummies get swacked sucking up bourbon.

Lo Manto kept his back braced against the now riddled box, waving pedestrians away from the area, knowing he needed to move clear before Rummy got any closer.

Rummy emptied one of his guns firing at Lo Manto, bullets cascading around the fleeing cop, shattering glass, setting off car alarms, whizzing past him at all angles, one near-miss taking out the rear tire of a parked van.

Lo Manto looked across his shoulder at Rummy and then turned to glance at the approaching Stalli, who had yet to let off a shot.

Rummy was firing like a man on his last breath, spraying a stream of gunfire toward Lo Manto, each bullet inching its way closer to his body.

Elmo Stalli and John Rummy were now both on their feet, four car lengths away from Lo Manto, Pete Rossi still by his side.

Lo Manto peered over at him, watching him stride close enough to Rummy to take the hitter, his instincts dictating which way he turned, his movements slow and in control, like a gray cat walking after midnight.

It seems from what Schultz says that after Kunz returns to Germany, he misses his gin rummy no little as the game is practically unknown in his country where cardplayers generally favor pinochle or maybe klabriasch.

Take the rather rummy case, for instance, of dear old Bicky and his uncle, the hard-boiled egg.

It's rummy about these blighters, but they never seem able to understand a damn thing.

When it's laid, it's played they say when they're playing rummy or Crazy Eights and someone makes a goofy-ass discard.

Four hours later, As Andy and Charlie were sitting down to a game of five hundred rummy, the supper dishes washed and drying in the drainer, the letters were on Cap Hollister's desk.

She laid the hand of gin rummy face-down on the kitchen-smelling oilcloth, and did not know what he was raving about.

I know Jim Warrington, he drives one of the Sanford ambulances, and unless there's a car wreck on 95 he sits around and plays gin rummy all day.