She was hopelessly poor, he was hopelessly poor, and this cheat of a Medium was her stepfather!

Typhoid breeds typhoid, and typhus breeds typhus, just as dog breeds dog; and who will believe that a cheat and a liar can be the father of honest men?' 'In that case, knowing what kind of man the grandson is, I will never believe that the grandfather was a rogue,' said Hammond, heartily.

A CHEAT Is a freeman of all trades, and all trades of his.

Cheating, lying and stealing are hard words, and I don't mean to apply them to all who swarm about below there like ants on an ant-hillthey have other names for these things, but I'm old-fashioned and use plain words.

Cheating is not a necessary mark of gambling, altho the cruder forms of dishonesty, such as the loading of dice or the collusion of horse-owners or of horse-jockeys to deceive the betting public, are so common that they seem often to be an essential feature.

Indeed, the cheating of the guard had become a business well understood of all the citizens, who had a regular code of signals to warn each other of its approach.

And I don't think you have said anything so far to show that spiritualistic cheating is Right.