Используйте «raffle» в предложении

1. Tipene had no interest in raffles, so he kept walking

---

2. Dixie drove me to this rehab in RI Tuesday morning with a paper shopping bag full of extra AA books she had accumulated via her uncanny luck of winning raffles

---

3. headed for Orchard Road to have a drink at the Raffles

---

4. She had arrived in Macon-do in the middle of the war with a chalice husband who lived off raffles, and when the man died she kept up the business

---

5. Until the end of the wars Petra Cotes continued to support herself with the returns from her raffles and Aureliano Segundo was able to sack Úrsula’s savings from time to time

---

6. The raffles never got very far

---

7. At first Aureliano Segundo would spend three days of the week shut up in what had been his rancher’s office drawing ticket after ticket, Painting with a fair skill a red cow, a green pig, or a group of blue hens, according to the animal being raffled, and he would sketch out a good imitation of printed numbers and the name that Petra Cotes thought good to call the business: Divine Providence Raffles

---

8. Aureliano Segundo was so busy trying to maintain the prestige of his raffles that he barely had time to see the children

---

9. Tormented by the fear of dying without having sent Amaranta Úrsula to Brussels, he worked as he had never done, and instead of one he made three weekly raffles

---

10. She saw to it that she had a good pair of shoes for street wear, that she always had cloth-ing, even during the times when the raffles were work-ing only through some miracle

11. The Raffles Hotel and Singapore Club were often frequented by officers

---

12. Cutting me off in traffic and making me wait behind them at the grocery store and winning raffles and buying the last waffle cone at the ice cream shop

---

13. give the microphone to this reprobate at the Cottonfields, Coco’s, Raffles, Coimbra,

---

14. His order has definite epicurean tendencies, which have traditionally been accepted by the Church because its raffles, casinos, horse and/or lizard races, etc

---

15. His name was John Raffles, and he sometimes wrote jocosely W

---

16. after his name, and that he, Raffles, originated the witticism of calling that celebrated principal BaLamb

---

17. "Yes, I've done," said Raffles, taking hold of his hat which stood

---

18. As Rigg pronounced the last words he turned round and looked at Raffles with his prominent frozen eyes

---

19. The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors

---

20. But the advantage now was on the side of Rigg, and auditors of this conversation might probably have expected that Raffles would retire with the air of a defeated dog

21. "That's a pity, now, Josh," said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed

---

22. Raffles on most occasions kept up the sense of having been educated at an academy, and being able, if he chose, to pass well everywhere; indeed, there was not one of his fellow-men whom he did not feel himself in a position to ridicule and torment, confident of the entertainment which he thus gave to all the rest of the company

---

23. Raffles, whose appearance presented no other change than such as was due to a suit of black and a crape hat-band

---

24. Bulstrode, but it ended in his putting out his hand coldly to Raffles and saying—

---

25. "Thank you," said Raffles, making a grimace

---

26. Bulstrode had not yet fully learned that even the desire for cognac was not stronger in Raffles than the desire to torment, and that a hint of annoyance always served him as a fresh cue

---

27. Bulstrode entertained Raffles merely as a friend of her former master

---

28. Raffles, that we can hardly enjoy each other's society

---

29. "With all my heart," said Raffles; "this is a comfortable place—a little dull for a continuance; but I can put up with it for a night, with this good liquor and the prospect of seeing you again in the morning

---

30. It was inevitable that he should wish to get rid of John Raffles, though his reappearance could not be regarded as lying outside the divine plan

31. Raffles, with whom he was condemned to breakfast

---

32. Raffles," said the banker, who could hardly do more than sip his tea and break his toast without eating it, "I shall be obliged if you will mention at once the ground on which you wished to meet with me

---

33. Raffles winked slowly as he looked at Mr

---

34. "That must be as it suits my convenience," said Raffles coolly

---

35. Raffles had pushed away his chair and looked down at himself, particularly at his straps

---

36. Raffles," said Bulstrode,

---

37. "Ah, to be sure," said Raffles, with a mocking cordiality

---

38. Bulstrode felt a shuddering nausea, and did not speak, but was considering diligently whether he should not leave Raffles to do as he would, and simply defy him as a slanderer

---

39. And again: it seemed no wrong to keep Raffles at a distance, but Mr

---

40. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant

41. "Ha, ha!" said Raffles, with an affected explosion, "that reminds me

---

42. Here Raffles rose and stalked once or twice up and down the room, swinging his leg, and assuming an air of masterly meditation

---

43. He was rising to do what Raffles suggested, when the latter said, lifting up his finger as if with a sudden recollection—

---

44. Raffles immediately took out his pocket-book, and wrote down the name, not because he expected to use it, but merely for the sake of not being at a loss if he ever did happen to want it

---

45. Raffles there is always probable good in a secret

---

46. Raffles, who never hesitated to thrust himself on unwilling observation, if it suited his purpose to do so

---

47. Hereupon Raffles, who had lifted his hat with the last words, turned himself round with a swing of his leg and walked away

---

48. Later in the evening, however, Raffles overtook him in the street, and appearing either to have forgotten the roughness of his former reception or to intend avenging it by a forgiving familiarity, greeted him jovially and walked by his side, remarking at first on the pleasantness of the town and neighborhood

---

49. Will suspected that the man had been drinking and was considering how to shake him off when Raffles said—

---

50. She ran away from her friends when she was a young lass—a proud-spirited lass, and pretty, by Jove! I knew the reason why she ran away," said Raffles, winking slowly as he looked sideways at Will

51. "Not a bit!" said he, tossing his head decisively "She was a little too honorable to like her friends—that was it!" Here Raffles again winked slowly

---

52. In the interview at the Bank, Raffles had made it evident that his eagerness to torment was almost as strong in him as any other greed

---

53. This time Raffles declined to be "seen off the premises," as he expressed it—declined to quit Middlemarch under Bulstrode's eyes

---

54. Meanwhile, in his conversation with Raffles, he had learned something momentous, something which entered actively into the struggle of his longings and terrors

---

55. He had seen Raffles actually going away on the Brassing coach, and this was a temporary relief; it removed the pressure of an immediate dread, but did not put an end to the spiritual conflict and the need to win protection

---

56. He had no clew to the state of Will Ladislaw's mind, smarting as it was from the clear hints of Raffles, and with its natural quickness in construction stimulated by the expectation of discoveries which he would have been glad to conjure back into darkness

---

57. Bulstrode's thought was, "Raffles has told him

---

58. It was the first time he had encountered an open expression of scorn from any man higher than Raffles; and with that scorn hurrying like venom through his system, there was no sensibility left to consolations

---

59. His certainty that Raffles, unless he were dead, would return to Middlemarch before long, had been justified

---

60. Raffles proved more unmanageable than he had shown himself to be in his former appearances, his chronic state of mental restlessness, the growing effect of habitual intemperance, quickly shaking off every impression from what was said to him

61. He kept him in his own room for the evening and saw him to bed, Raffles all the while amusing himself with the annoyance he was causing this decent and highly prosperous fellow-sinner, an amusement

---

62. Bulstrode was indeed more tortured than the coarse fibre of Raffles

---

63. He had told his wife that he was simply taking care of this wretched creature, the victim of vice, who might otherwise injure himself; he implied, without the direct form of falsehood, that there was a family tie which bound him to this care, and that there were signs of mental alienation in Raffles which urged caution

---

64. But he sat in an agony of fear lest Raffles should be overheard in his loud and plain references to past facts—lest Mrs

---

65. In this way Raffles had pushed the torture too far, and produced an effect which had not been in his plan

---

66. After taking Raffles to bed that night the banker ordered his closed carriage to be ready at half-past seven the nextmorning

---

67. Bulstrode carried his candle to the bedside of Raffles, who was apparently in a painful dream

---

68. He had watched for a couple of minutes or more the shudderings and pantings which seemed likely to end in waking, when Raffles, with a long half-stifled moan, started up and stared round him in terror, trembling and gasping

---

69. Raffles, because I have ordered the carriage to be ready at half-past seven, and intend myself to conduct you as far as Ilsely, where you can either take the railway or await a coach

---

70. " Raffles was about to speak, but Bulstrode anticipated him imperiously with the words, "Be silent, sir, and hear what I have to say

71. Bulstrode had rarely in his life spoken with such nervous energy: he had been deliberating on this speech and its probable effects through a large part of the night; and though he did not trust to its ultimately saving him from any return of Raffles, he had concluded that it was the best throw he could make

---

72. The banker's drive of ten miles with his hated companion was a dreary beginning of the Christmas day; but at the end of the drive, Raffles had recovered his spirits, and parted in a

---

73. As he had stood watching Raffles in his uneasy sleep, it had certainly entered his mind that the man had been much shattered since the first gift of two hundred pounds

---

74. Yes, imminent; for if his defiance of Raffles did not keep the man away—and though he prayed for this result he hardly hoped for it—the disgrace was certain

---

75. His name is Raffles

---

76. In Bulstrode's mind the dominant thought was, "Perhaps Raffles only spoke to Garth of his illness

---

77. He longed for some confirmation of this hopeful conjecture, but to have asked any question as to what Raffles had said or done would have been to betray fear

---

78. "You are wronging me by too readily believing him," said Bulstrode, oppressed, as by a nightmare, with the inability to deny flatly what Raffles might have said; and yet feeling it an escape that Caleb had not so stated it to him as to ask for that flat denial

---

79. The deep humiliation with which he had winced under Caleb Garth's knowledge of his past and rejection of his patronage, alternated with and almost gave way to the sense of safety in the fact that Garth, and no other, had been the man to whom Raffles had spoken

---

80. That Raffles should be afflicted with illness, that he should have been led to Stone Court rather than elsewhere—Bulstrode's heart fluttered at the vision of probabilities which these events conjured up

81. Yet when he arrived at Stone Court he could not see the change in Raffles without a shock

---

82. Bulstrode, not knowing the significance of these symptoms, interpreted this new nervous susceptibility into a means of alarming Raffles into true confessions, and taxed him with falsehood in saying that he had not told anything, since he had just told the man who took him up in his gig and brought him to Stone Court

---

83. Raffles denied this with solemn adjurations; the fact being that the links of consciousness were interrupted in him, and that his minute terror-stricken narrative to Caleb Garth had been

---

84. Bulstrode's heart sank again at this sign that he could get no grasp over the wretched man's mind, and that no word of Raffles could be trusted as to the fact which he most wanted to know, namely, whether or not he had really kept silence to every one in the neighborhood except Caleb Garth

---

85. Garth left, Raffles had asked her for beer, and after that had not spoken, seeming very ill

---

86. wainscoted parlor, where Raffles was, and said—

---

87. "Raffles, John Raffles," said Bulstrode, who hoped that whatever

---

88. Bulstrode, Lydgate rode away, forming no conjectures, in the first instance, about the history of Raffles, but rehearsing the whole argument, which had lately been much stirred by the publication of Dr

---

89. The bill was heavy, and since Raffles had no luggage with him, it seemed probable that he had left his portmanteau behind in payment, in order to save money for his travelling fare; for his purse was empty, and he had only a couple of sixpences and some loose pence in his pockets

---

90. Bulstrode gathered a sense of safety from these indications that Raffles had really kept at a distance from Middlemarch since his memorable visit at Christmas

91. He did carry them out faithfully, although Raffles was incessantly asking for brandy, and declaring that he was sinking away—that the earth was sinking away from under him

---

92. Even this Bulstrode felt that he would not have liked Lydgate to hear; but a more alarming sign of fitful alternation in his delirium was, that in-the morning twilight Raffles suddenly seemed to imagine a doctor present, addressing him and declaring that Bulstrode wanted to starve him to death out of revenge for telling, when he never had told

---

93. He could not but see the death of Raffles, and see in it his own deliverance

---

94. For in case of unpleasant suspicions, or even knowledge gathered from the raving of Raffles, Bulstrode would have felt that he had a defence in Lydgate's mind by having conferred a momentous benefit on him

---

95. Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent

---

96. Raffles, recovering quickly, returning to the free use of his odious powers—how could Bulstrode wish for that? Raffles dead was the image that brought release, and indirectly he prayed for that way of release, beseeching that, if it were possible, the rest of his days here below might be freed from the threat of an ignominy which would break him utterly as an instrument of God's service

---

97. At six o'clock, Raffles, having had only fitful perturbed snatches of sleep, from which he waked with fresh restlessness and perpetual cries that he was sinking away, Bulstrode began to administer the opium according to Lydgate's directions

---

98. Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not likely to create any dangerous belief

---

99. Perhaps he might deliver a different opinion, and think that Raffles was getting into a less hopeful state

---