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king_n black_a house_n queen_n 545,707 5 13.2079 5 true
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A34637 The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting. Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687. 1674 (1674) Wing C6382; ESTC R23124 83,437 249

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