Three years it had been in that condition, but nobody seemed to want it; occasionally some important person came rushing down in a motor-car, but after running over the house he would come out and, remarking that it was a "rummy old place," remount his car and vanish in a cloud of dust to be seen no more.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Min and I played gin rummy that night but we kept forgetting to mark down the score.
"The Love of Frank Nineteen"
David Carpenter Knight
Here's me, sits all the evening, playin' rummy and one eye on the ship from that American bar, and all you can do's get sore.
"Command"
William McFee