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  • That's how a lot of old people get swindled out of their homes and savings.†   (source)
  • …months I did book and fax signing on more than a hundred worlds; I appeared on "The AllNet Now!" show with Marmon Hamlit; I met CEO Senister Per6t and All Thing Speaker Drury Fein aswell as a score of senators; I spoke to the Interplanetary Society of PEN Women and to the Lusus Writers" Union; I was given honorary degrees at the University of New Earth and at Cambridge Two; I was feted, interviewed, imaged, reviewed (favorably), bioed (unauthorized), lionized, serialized, and swindled.†   (source)
  • In Philadelphia Holmes had swindled the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of nearly $10,000 by apparently faking the death of a policyholder, Ben Pitezel.†   (source)
  • He is measuring the heads of all the criminals in the Penitentiary, to see if he can tell from the bumps on their skulls what sort of criminals they are, whether they are pickpockets or swindlers or embezzlers or criminal lunatics or murderers, she did not say Like you, Grace.†   (source)
  • A few of the spectators nudged each other with their elbows, obviously hoping I'd somehow swindle Ambrose into paying several times what my slot was actually worth.†   (source)
  • It's the look of a man who feels swindled.†   (source)
  • The camp was in some ways like a trading post in an old-time gold rush, and much was for sale or barter, from sweaters to mobile phones to antibiotics to, quietly, sex and drugs, and there were families with an eye on the future and gangs of young men with an eye on the vulnerable and upright folks and swindlers and those who had risked their lives to save their children and those who knew how to choke a man in the dark so he never made a sound.†   (source)
  • Though it was Shukhov who had swindled the extra bowls, it was for Pavlo to distribute them.†   (source)
  • Bekkar's much smaller and usually filled with swindling Mercators and Plebeian drunks.†   (source)
  • The routine was well practiced and expensive and riddled with swindlers.†   (source)
  • I'm so afraid they will swindle our land away, and our livelihood, all in the name of reform," he replied.†   (source)
  • With a single glance Clara realized that Getulio Armando was going to swindle her father in the business of the Australian sheep, because she read it in the color of his aura.†   (source)
  • It was all a swindle, an obscene swindle!†   (source)
  • Jonas Howe has the seam now, and being a good man, and a friend of Sam's, he feels he has choused me, although why he should I know not, as it can hardly be a swindle when the law here time out of mind has made it plain that those who cannot pull a dish of lead from a mine within three nicks may not keep it.†   (source)
  • You had exhausted every other form of depravity and sought a new thrill by swindling people like Jim and his friends, in order to watch them squirm.†   (source)
  • One involved a customer who apparently suffered from a forgetfulness curse and arrived at the shop each morning, loudly protesting that he'd been swindled, having paid for shoes he never received.†   (source)
  • His winnings paid Party's expenses while Mike built swindle that financed catapult.†   (source)
  • No, the orgasmic blockage was a simple matter of being swindled both by fright and by that suffocating quality of the Zeitgeist that made sex in midcentury America such a nightmarish Sargasso Sea of guilts and apprehensions.†   (source)
  • Antonina Alexandrovna felt as ashamed as if she had swindled the peasant woman, while she, delighted with her deal, called a friend who had also sold out her wares and made off with her, home to their village, striding down the snowy path into the distance.†   (source)
  • You were swindled again as you always are, because you insist on secondhand bargains in everything.†   (source)
  • There's a song-writer down on Melody Lane I can swindle into helping me.†   (source)
  • She's spreading stories that you're a swindler who duped Henrik into hiring you, and that you got him so worked up that he had a heart attack.   (source)
    swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
  • It began for him when he discovered how the swindling of a client had been accomplished through creative bookkeeping.   (source)
    swindling = tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
  • You're going to ask why a billionaire should go to the trouble of swindling a trifling fifty million.   (source)
  • The problems ranged from those arrested to those assaulted, from Canadians who were swindled to those doing the swindling.   (source)
    swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
  • Like a man possessed, he searched court and public records, interviewed associates of the swindler, and produced detailed notes.   (source)
    swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
  • He told them cruel stories of people who had been done to death in this "buying a home" swindle.   (source)
    swindle = trick to cheat people out of money
  • Then, too, they would swindle you with the contract—and how was a poor man to understand anything about a contract?   (source)
    swindle = trick (to get money)
  • It was all a swindle, can-painting, said the girls—you were crazy with delight because you were making twelve or fourteen dollars a week, and saving half of it; but you had to spend it all keeping alive while you were out, and so your pay was really only half what you thought.   (source)
  • There was the police department, and the fire and water departments, and the whole balance of the civil list, from the meanest office boy to the head of a city department; and for the horde who could find no room in these, there was the world of vice and crime, there was license to seduce, to swindle and plunder and prey.   (source)
    swindle = cheat or trick for money
  • It seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes.   (source)
    swindles = tricks or ways of cheating to get money
  • With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.   (source)
    swindles = tricks to get money by cheating
  • Jurgis was sure that they had been swindled, and were ruined; and he tore his hair and cursed like a madman, swearing that he would kill the agent that very night.   (source)
    swindled = tricked or cheated
  • And the wandering visitor might be skeptical about all the swindles, but he could not be skeptical about these, for the worker bore the evidence of them about on his own person—generally he had only to hold out his hand.   (source)
    swindles = tricks or cheating
  • If I didn't know horses as well as I do, I would have thought I was being swindled.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, he had no thought of swindling Ms.†   (source)
  • Nadia knew they had been swindled, such things were common, and Saeed knew it too, but preferred for a while to try to believe that something had happened to the man that had prevented him from returning, and when he prayed Saeed prayed not only for the man's return but also for his safety, until it felt foolish to pray for this man any longer, and after that Saeed prayed only for Nadia and for his father, especially for his father, who was not with them, and should have been.†   (source)
  • The Chicago Inter Ocean said, "It is humiliating to think that had it not been for the exertions of the insurance companies which Holmes swindled, or attempted to swindle, he might yet be at large, preying upon society, so well did he cover up the traces of his crime."†   (source)
  • There was a world of trouble waiting for a man who sold his neighbor some sickly hobble, but what was the harm of swindling one of the filthy, thieving Ruh?†   (source)
  • She had nothing at all against swindling the company's clients herself—provided they deserved it—but if she had accepted a job with a confidentiality agreement in it, she would never have broken it.†   (source)
  • As Leslie continues I can only reflect despairingly on the obvious irony: that if through those frigid little harpies in Virginia I had been betrayed chiefly by Jesus, I have been just as cruelly swindled at Leslie's hands by the egregious Doktor Freud.†   (source)
  • The old Reich (Ben's father) must have swindled it one way or another, and placed it in his wife's name.†   (source)
  • If you've been evicted, bankrupted, terrorized, swindled… If you're frightened, for any reason and don't know where to turn… If you're desperate… Take Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • It swindled you out of the Guild.†   (source)
  • They're all part of a family that would swindle you if they had the chance.†   (source)
  • "How do you know that I won't swindle you?"†   (source)
  • "Jim," he said, "Rearden Metal seems to be a colossal kind of swindle."†   (source)
  • Rufo, I want to know about this swindle.†   (source)
  • But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.†   (source)
  • I haven't forgotten the Chaos Swindle…"†   (source)
  • He made a million out of that swindle… just by asking a dumb peeper for a favor.†   (source)
  • The Chicago Inter Ocean said, "It is humiliating to think that had it not been for the exertions of the insurance companies which Holmes swindled, or attempted to swindle, he might yet be at large, preying upon society, so well did he cover up the traces of his crime."†   (source)
  • Apparently there was too much else for them to do, as wealthy visitors and foreign dignitaries began arriving in ever-greater numbers, shadowed by a swarm of pickpockets, thugs, and petty swindlers.†   (source)
  • Well, put it this way: why would he risk his own and his company's good name on such a blatant swindle?†   (source)
  • It wasn't so obviously a swindle given that the AIA board, the bankers, the government, and Parliament's auditors all approved Wennerström's accounting without a single dissenting vote.†   (source)
  • He could never be sure whether Lindberg had told him the details of Wennerström's swindle simply for the sake of a good story between toasts in the privacy of his boat's cabin or whether he had really wanted the story to be made public.†   (source)
  • Was a pyramided swindle based on fact, unknown to me but known to Prof and latent in Mike's immense knowledge, that most money is simply bookkeeping.†   (source)
  • Hedström was a corrupt nobody who had exploited his position at Milton Security to swindle one of the company's clients.†   (source)
  • Her husband, James Reynolds, a speculator with an unsavory reputation, commenced to blackmail Hamilton, until the point when he, Reynolds, went to prison for an earlier swindle.†   (source)
  • However, from the color of his rays she knew at a glance whether he was hatching a swindle, and she could defuse one of his tantrums with a few simple, mocking words.†   (source)
  • What sort of rotten swindle was It?†   (source)
  • This time Severo had no need to intervene to put a stop to his brother-in-law's venture, for both Marcos and Clara, realizing that their unerring guesses could alter the fate of their clients, who always followed their advice to the letter, became frightened and decided that this was a job for swindlers.†   (source)
  • Or swindle?†   (source)
  • To work-with no chance to rise, with your meals and your clothes and your home and your pleasure depending on any swindle, any famine, any pestilence anywhere on earth.†   (source)
  • The entire San Sebastian swindle.†   (source)
  • All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues.†   (source)
  • Was all that first part swindle?†   (source)
  • Don't call me a stinking miser, just because I don't want doctors to think I'm a millionaire they can swindle.†   (source)
  • A swindle.†   (source)
  • I've got to swindle a friend tomorrow.†   (source)
  • You'll swindle them, Powell.†   (source)
  • It's a swindle.†   (source)
  • " "He was a Rumania-box type of swindler, where you put in a buck and it comes out a fiver.†   (source)
  • Anyone can help swindling.†   (source)
  • "Swindler," shouted Sir Grummore.†   (source)
  • Creeping out of the London dirt, Crawling up like a louse on your shirt, The man who cheated, swindled, lied; broke his oath and betrayed his King.†   (source)
  • But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his most enterprising days, because always too lazy to carry crookedness beyond petty swindling.†   (source)
  • This was his defiance to his record of petty forgeries against Gant: he saw himself as a clever swindler although he had never had courage to swindle any one except his father.†   (source)
  • So here you've got me swindled too, just about almost, that is, I'll give you a ring in a few days and we'll have a dogfight over the contract!†   (source)
  • It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you're swindled under the Napoleonic code I'm swindled too.†   (source)
  • It appears that the burial society had originally issued a policy that was—from their point of view—too liberal in its provisions, and the officials decided to exchange the policies then in the hands of their clients for other policies carrying stricter clauses; of course, this had to be done in a manner that would not allow the policyholder to know that his policy was being switched, that he was being swindled.†   (source)
  • " She called Kotzie "the baked apple"; she called Mrs. Kreindl "the secret goose," Lubin "the shoemaker's son," the dentist "the butcher," the butcher "the timid swindler.†   (source)
  • And I don't like to be swindled.†   (source)
  • He went on, giving slow, full value to each word: "We called you an incompetent fool, a tyro, a charlatan, a swindler, an egomaniac…"†   (source)
  • He listened to her moans about lost customers and bad debts, the swindling ways of Mr. Johnson and the incompetency of Hugh.†   (source)
  • It was curious to think of that heavy, fleshy, good-humored, rather paternal-looking man as the world's hugest swindler.†   (source)
  • One poor white who operated a mill on the Decatur road did try to fight Scarlett with her own weapons, saying openly that she was a liar and a swindler.†   (source)
  • But Mildred wouldn't accept lying down and dying, though she never recovered from looking near middle-aged and dark and sore, as-a woman forced to sit, or someone who has missed out on children, or whom men have swindled.†   (source)
  • Among them were the Gelerts who had lived in a dozen different states and who apparently had left each one hastily upon detection of their swindling schemes; the Conningtons whose connection with the Freedmen's Bureau in a distant state had been highly lucrative at the expense of the ignorant blacks they were supposed to protect; the Deals who had sold "cardboard" shoes to the Confederate government until it became necessary for them to spend the last year of the war in Europe; the…†   (source)
  • Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger.†   (source)
  • Let me see the bill—I daresay the woman is swindling you.†   (source)
  • He had failed to meet his obligations; nevertheless, he had been swindled.†   (source)
  • He told Hall how his aunt at Hastings had been swindled by a stranger with empty portmanteaux.†   (source)
  • You clean swindled Beauty Smith on top of pushin' his face in with your fist."†   (source)
  • "I spoke of swindling…. but I did not apply that to you.†   (source)
  • It was quite enough to have been swindled by the father.†   (source)
  • And there's a lot of swindling in America, too, I expect.†   (source)
  • The next man who has as large a capacity and as genuine a taste for swindling, will succeed as well.†   (source)
  • Time was you called him better names than rogue and swindler.†   (source)
  • The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn.†   (source)
  • She awoke at ebb-time, at three of the morning, woke sharply and fully; and sharply and coldly as her father pronouncing sentence on a cruel swindler she gave judgment: "A pitiful and tawdry love-affair.†   (source)
  • My father spoke to him of it again, as often as we met him, and tortured him with questions, but it was labour in vain: like that scholarly swindler who devoted to the fabrication of forged palimpsests a wealth of skill and knowledge and industry the hundredth part of which would have sufficed to establish him in a more lucrative—but an honourable occupation, M. Legrandin, had we insisted further, would in the end have constructed a whole system of ethics, and a celestial geography of…†   (source)
  • And so the thing has gone on, only that to the sword they have added lying, intrigue, deceit, fanaticism, superstition, swindling;—they have played fast and loose with the most sacred and sincere feelings of men;—they have exchanged everything—everything for money, for base earthly POWER!†   (source)
  • Hadn't I been told in all the tones of jealousy and admiration that he had collected, bartered, swindled, or stolen more ivory than all the other agents together?†   (source)
  • He let himself go—his nerves had been over-wrought for days—and called him many pretty names,—swindler, liar, sorry rascal: in fact, carried on in an extraordinary way.†   (source)
  • In the next room they were talking about some sort of machines, and swindling, and coughing their morning coughs.†   (source)
  • The swindler swindles himself.†   (source)
  • As I said when Mr. Baldwin, the tax-gatherer, comes in, a-standing where you sit, and says, 'Bulstrode got all his money as he brought into this town by thieving and swindling,'—I said, 'You don't make me no wiser, Mr. Baldwin: it's set my blood a-creeping to look at him ever sin' here he came into Slaughter Lane a-wanting to buy the house over my head: folks don't look the color o' the dough-tub and stare at you as if they wanted to see into your backbone for nothingk.'†   (source)
  • Murder, manslaughter, arson, forgery, swindling, house-breaking, highway robbery, larceny, conspiracy, fraud?†   (source)
  • Compeyson's business was the swindling, handwriting forging, stolen bank-note passing, and such-like.†   (source)
  • The notion that Mrs Warren must be a fiend is only an example of the violence and passion which the slightest reference to sex arouses in undisciplined minds, and which makes it seem natural for our lawgivers to punish silly and negligible indecencies with a ferocity unknown in dealing with, for example, ruinous financial swindling.†   (source)
  • Yes, he is a swindler.†   (source)
  • 'My children, my defrauded, swindled infants!' cried Mr Kenwigs, pulling so hard, in his vehemence, at the flaxen tail of his second daughter, that he lifted her up on tiptoe, and kept her, for some seconds, in that attitude.†   (source)
  • I knew, too, that she was fond of money, that she hoarded it, and lent it at a wicked rate of interest, that she's a merciless cheat and swindler.†   (source)
  • Our forefathers, in the first clearing of the slums, were not in a hurry to pull down the houses in what was called at the end of the nineteenth century the business quarter of the town, and what later got to be known as the Swindling Kens.†   (source)
  • In addition, he was a great swindler.†   (source)
  • …are such unpleasant people in most families; perhaps even in the highest aristocracy there are Brobdingnag specimens, gigantically in debt and bloated at greater expense)—Brother Jonah, I say, having come down in the world, was mainly supported by a calling which he was modest enough not to boast of, though it was much better than swindling either on exchange or turf, but which did not require his presence at Brassing so long as he had a good corner to sit in and a supply of food.†   (source)
  • That was so far well, but Vronsky knew that in this dirty business, though his only share in it was undertaking by word of mouth to be surety for Venovsky, it was absolutely necessary for him to have the two thousand five hundred roubles so as to be able to fling it at the swindler, and have no more words with him.†   (source)
  • If I would sell my soul for drink, why wasn't I a thief, swindler, housebreaker, area sneak, robber of pence out of the trays of blind men's dogs, rather than your drudge and packhorse?†   (source)
  • "I wish—" answered the latter, "I have just been swindled and cheated, and I cannot get hold of the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • Whatever worldly baseness presented itself to him, he said to himself: "Well, supposing N. N. swindled the country and the Tsar, and the country and the Tsar confer honors upon him, what does that matter?†   (source)
  • That swindling Pumblechook, exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him…†   (source)
  • Having taken this little liberty with the Patriarchal person, Mr Pancks further astounded and attracted the Bleeding Hearts by saying in an audible voice, 'Now, you sugary swindler, I mean to have it out with you!'†   (source)
  • He swindled his own son and spent his money, his maternal inheritance, on trying to get his mistress from him.†   (source)
  • 'He is an idle ruffian,' said Ralph; 'a vagabond from beyond the sea where he travelled for his crimes; a felon let loose to run his neck into the halter; a swindler, who has the audacity to try his schemes on me who know him well.†   (source)
  • He had fully convinced himself, notwithstanding, that his own proper share of the Fund was three and ninepence a week; and that in this amount he, as an individual collegian, was swindled by the marshal, regularly every Monday.†   (source)
  • Serve him right, the swindler!†   (source)
  • And it's to this man's son—this scoundrel, gambler, swindler, murderer of a Rawdon Crawley, that Matilda leaves the bulk of her money.†   (source)
  • In fact, our friends may be said to have been among the first of that brood of hardy English adventurers who have subsequently invaded the Continent and swindled in all the capitals of Europe.†   (source)
  • Fred, whose hopes had been raised when George had been disinherited, thought himself infamously swindled by the old merchant, and for some time made as if he would break off the match altogether.†   (source)
  • You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter?†   (source)
  • And whereas there is now hardly a town of France or Italy in which you shall not see some noble countryman of our own, with that happy swagger and insolence of demeanour which we carry everywhere, swindling inn-landlords, passing fictitious cheques upon credulous bankers, robbing coach-makers of their carriages, goldsmiths of their trinkets, easy travellers of their money at cards, even public libraries of their books—thirty years ago you needed but to be a Milor Anglais, travelling in…†   (source)
  • Although lately some spark may have been shown by one, which made us think he was ordained by God for our redemption, nevertheless it was afterwards seen, in the height of his career, that fortune rejected him; so that Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds and put an end to the ravaging and plundering of Lombardy, to the swindling and taxing of the kingdom and of Tuscany, and cleanse those sores that for long have festered.†   (source)
  • But, at least, he's honest and won't swindle me.†   (source)
  • As an insurance agent, it was necessary for me to take part in one swindle.†   (source)
  • That all the cruts of Russian sucking swindlers should aid us now.†   (source)
  • So what does she want this extra swindle for?†   (source)
  • And perhaps, I mean, it has always been the same and always will be, and what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years.†   (source)
  • " "Swindle.†   (source)
  • Since then, he had been a swindle.†   (source)
  • This was his defiance to his record of petty forgeries against Gant: he saw himself as a clever swindler although he had never had courage to swindle any one except his father.†   (source)
  • It's a swindle.†   (source)
  • I'll go to the wall, every penny we've got will go into the pockets of those accursed swindlers, and the rest will come under the sheriff's hammer.†   (source)
  • The swindle worked in this way.†   (source)
  • I don't understand what happened to Belle Reve but you don't know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else.†   (source)
  • It was really an attempted swindle.†   (source)
  • And if nature made us live and do as worms and beetles do, to escape the ichneumon fly and swindle other enemies by mimicry, and so forth--well, all right!†   (source)
  • And at this very time we were engaged in a swindle in Deever's neighborhood department store, where we were Christmas extras in the toy department, Santa Claus's helpers, in elves' costumes, with painted faces.†   (source)
  • The man, a common fellow, made jokes with them, tried to swindle them, and bullied them.†   (source)
  • And several references I took up were most unsatisfactory--people swindlers, or not respectable.†   (source)
  • This Argentine scheme is a commonplace Stock Exchange swindle.†   (source)
  • Believe me, Mrs. Cheveley, it is a swindle.†   (source)
  • It was a swindle, and not at all like the conduct of a great man!†   (source)
  • If he was, it would not be such a great swindle!†   (source)
  • You don't need to be taught how to swindle the master, and to filch fur coats!"†   (source)
  • He can't bring himself to swindle without a moral sanction.†   (source)
  • That's all very charming; but if you want to swindle why do you want a moral sanction for doing it?†   (source)
  • You're no better than swindlers, both on you.†   (source)
  • And there was another shipowning fellow—a fat chap in a white waistcoat in Wellington, who seemed to think I was up to some swindle or other.†   (source)
  • When he brought the blouse home Annie kissed him and said it was very pretty and stylish; but when she heard the price she threw the blouse on the table and said it was a regular swindle to charge ten and elevenpence for it.†   (source)
  • Among certain grizzled sea—gossips of the gun decks and forecastle went a rumor perdue that the Master-at-arms was a chevalier who had volunteered into the King's Navy by way of compounding for some mysterious swindle whereof he had been arraigned at the King's Bench.†   (source)
  • The whole of the Glen Oriole project was a suggestion that Babbitt, though he really did hate men recognized as swindlers, was not too unreasonably honest.†   (source)
  • "It's a swindle!" he said.†   (source)
  • It was a swindle, Sir Robert.†   (source)
  • They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.†   (source)
  • It was even filthier and more crowded than the county jail; all the smaller fry out of the latter had been sifted into it—the petty thieves and swindlers, the brawlers and vagrants.†   (source)
  • "Why, blast your eyes, Bildad," cried Peleg, "thou dost not want to swindle this young man! he must have more than that."†   (source)
  • Gentlemen of the green-baize road who could discourse from personal experience of foreign galleys and home treadmills; spies of strong governments that eternally quake with weakness and miserable fear, broken traitors, cowards, bullies, gamesters, shufflers, swindlers, and false witnesses; some not unmarked by the branding-iron beneath their dirty braid; all with more cruelty in them than was in Nero, and more crime than is in Newgate.†   (source)
  • So long as the best elements of a community do not feel in duty bound to protect and train and care for the weaker members of their group, they leave them to be preyed upon by these swindlers and rascals.†   (source)
  • Receiving no answer to these taunts, he would mount in his wrath to the words 'swindlers' and 'robbers'; and these being ineffectual too, would sometimes go to the extremity of crossing the street, and roaring up at the windows of the second floor, where he knew Mr. Micawber was.†   (source)
  • All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.†   (source)
  • It's a swindle!"†   (source)
  • "It's five-and-twenty pound, Mum," echoed that basest of swindlers, Pumblechook, rising to shake hands with her; "and it's no more than your merits (as I said when my opinion was asked), and I wish you joy of the money!"†   (source)
  • Our peasants are swindlers, and don't deserve to be pitied, and it's a good thing they're still flogged sometimes.†   (source)
  • They are swindlers, only there the scoundrel wears polished boots and here he grovels in filth and sees no harm in it.†   (source)
  • Ah, they are swindlers!†   (source)
  • —how many great noblemen rob their petty tradesmen, condescend to swindle their poor retainers out of wretched little sums and cheat for a few shillings?†   (source)
  • They people the debtors' prisons—they drink and swagger—they fight and brawl—they run away without paying—they have duels with French and German officers—they cheat Mr. Spooney at ecarte—they get the money and drive off to Baden in magnificent britzkas—they try their infallible martingale and lurk about the tables with empty pockets, shabby bullies, penniless bucks, until they can swindle a Jew banker with a sham bill of exchange, or find another Mr. Spooney to rob.†   (source)
  • …the meekest creature in the world, so admirably, on the occasions when her father brought her to Chiswick, used Rebecca to perform the part of the ingenue; and only a year before the arrangement by which Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll—which was, by the way, the confiscated property of Miss Swindle, discovered surreptitiously nursing it in school-hours.†   (source)
  • …back acts of outrage.
    So,
    there I lingered for seven years, amassing a fortune
    from all the Egyptian people loading me with gifts.
    Then, at last, when the eighth had come full turn,
    along comes this Phoenician one fine day ….
    a scoundrel, swindler, an old hand at lies
    who'd already done the world a lot of damage.
    Well, he smoothly talked me round and off we sailed,
    Phoenicia-bound, where his house and holdings lay.
    There in his care I stayed till the year was out.
    Then, when…†   (source)
  • —Swindling the peasants, says the citizen, and the poor of Ireland.†   (source)
  • Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too.†   (source)
  • …people speak of the /fall/ of the year, a /stunt/ they have in hand, their desire to /boost/ a particular business, a /peach/ when they mean a pretty girl, a /scab/—a common term among strikers,—the /glad-eye/, /junk/ when they mean worthless material, their efforts /to make good/, the /elevator/ in the hotel or office, the /boss/ or manager, the /crook/ or swindler; and they will tell you that they have the /goods/—that is, they possess the requisite qualities for a given position.†   (source)
  • So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.†   (source)
  • We should not ignore this swindler's threats.†   (source)
  • —that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler?†   (source)
  • …the Strand of San Lucar, the Colt of Cordova, the Taverns of Toledo, and divers other quarters, where he had proved the nimbleness of his feet and the lightness of his fingers, doing many wrongs, cheating many widows, ruining maids and swindling minors, and, in short, bringing himself under the notice of almost every tribunal and court of justice in Spain; until at last he had retired to this castle of his, where he was living upon his property and upon that of others; and where…†   (source)
  • His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other.†   (source)
  • —How did that Canada swindle case go off? says Joe.†   (source)
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