When we came back, the tombola was taking place in the Piazza del Popolo, so that gate was closed, and we had to go round by Porta Salara.
"Story of My Life, volumes 1-3"
Augustus J. C. Hare
Here's the pyson at last, I says to myself; and when my turn came, I did as the others did, bowed to the sultan, feeling just like a tombola, and nearly going over; then I drank-and what do you think it was?
"Middy and Ensign"
G. Manville Fenn
The tobacco- jar, the cigarette-holder, the three papers of shirt-studs, which were to have been the prices of the tombola had the tombola come off, were made into a bundle with the music; the guitar was stowed into the fat guitar-case; and Elvira having thrown a thin shawl about her neck and shoulders, the pair issued from the cafe and set off for the Black Head.
"New-Arabian-Nights"
Stevenson, Robert Louis