I can't go out tonight: I've got to study for my exams.

By cultivating his own reason, the pupil could stand back from the agonic scenes in Hades and decide the merits of the case after [François] Fénelon's artifice had absorbed him passionately in the dialogue: […]

The projectiles were cleaned and weighed, and the powder blended, resectioned and reweighed by each of the companies who used it.

According to Vanity Fair, it's the venerable game of poker - especially the deceptively simple but nerve-wracking version known as Texas Hold 'Em, the so-called Cadillac of poker, with buy-in requirements as high as $10,000 per player.