Madam, 'twas a pious Fraud, if it were one; for I was contracted to him beforesee, here it is [Gives it 'em.

In order to do this Edith had to practise a little fraud on Bruce, a justifiable and quite unselfish one.

Lord GAGE spoke in the following manner:Sir, nothing is more clear than that a yearly pension will burden the nation, without any advantage; and as it will give occasion to innumerable frauds, it is a method which ought to be rejected.

It was found that 81,000 people had invested fifteen millions in this gigantic fraud.

But the difference between these vulgar frauds, these devices of ridiculous jays whose ill-secured plumes are seen falling off them as they run, and the quiet appropriation of other people's philosophic or scientific ideas, can hardly be held to lie in their moral quality unless we take impunity as our criterion.

Mortifying as this is it is better, perhaps, to suffer it with a good grace and even with cheerfulness, if possible, rather than endure the wear and tear of the spirits which a brooding over the gross fraud occasions.

The law of postal frauds and crimes.

Since the last session of Congress numerous frauds on the Treasury have been discovered, which I thought it my duty to bring under the cognizance of the United States court for this district by a criminal prosecution.

Nor are these questions, sir, always perplexed by intentional fraud, or false assertions, of which they that utter them are themselves conscious.

Slavery has no just foundation in color: it rests exclusively upon usurpation, tyranny, oppressive fraud, and force.

All news published by the agency has thus received the stamp of official authority, and the German public is too ignorant to recognize the palpable fraud.

She confessed to me the wicked fraud she practised, and has committed that confession to paper.

It is thus that the Phenicians, the Carthagenians, the Dutch, the Chinese, the New-Englanders, and the modern Greeks, have always been regarded as inclined to petty frauds by their less commercial neighbours."

A literary fraud of this magnitude is rarely attempted.

Strange tales of amazing frauds.

[Footnote 10: Relating to alleged frauds upon the Creek Indians in the sale and purchase of their lands, etc.] WASHINGTON, January 13, 1838.

* CONCERNING HIMSELF "Christ either deceived mankind by conscious fraud, or He was Himself deluded and self-deceived, or He was Divine.

The discovery of the monstrous fraud by Richard Lambert within the next few hours was a contingency which he could not even contemplate without shuddering.

Then, when dark arts obscur'd each fierce debate, When mutual frauds perplex'd the maze of state, The moderator firmly mild appear'd Beheld with lovewith veneration heard.

On the face of it, the whole story seemed to her utterly absurd and foolish, from the tale of Macomer's ingenious frauds upon her property, to the supposition that she was in danger of being murdered for her fortune.

Indeed, it is demonstrable on philosophical principles, that the more stupendous the fraud, the more tenacious is the hold upon that, which is gotten by it.

During fully ten years, Gregorio's management of the estate must have been a systematic fraud upon Veronica Serra, carried on with sufficient skill to evade all inquiry from the cardinal.

For they know what "dishonest fraud," or "good faith," or "just," or "good" mean.

I shall go to bed and leave you to Gummidge in the trees until the sun comes up and tells you what a dismal fraud you are.

Towards none did she show it more sweetly than to that disreputable fraud and alleged man of genius, Richard Savage.