215 collocations for cheats

Another reputable writer makes the following terse remark on this subject: "As matters stand at present," says he, "it is easier to cheat a man out of his life, than of a shilling: and almost impossible either to detect or punish the offender.

The steward has been cheating his master already.

IV,) and again in the Borough, for cheating people out of their money by pretending to cure them with charms, by simply looking at the patients, or by practices still more absurd and questionable.

He looked like one that had cheated the gallows.

While he was earnestly cautioning Lucifer against this Cardinal as one who could and would cheat the very Devil himself, another key turned in the lock, and Benno escaped under the table, where Anno immediately inserted his finger into his right eye.

"We are here to cheat death diplomatically.

One could not cheat her step-father by false cheerfulness.

I knew that when you told me how you meant to cheat your creditors, how you meant to escape over here on the pretext of business, and bring all the money you could scrape together.

To give a discount is to admit that your goods are not worth the price you ask for them, and that you're willing to cheat anybody who doesn't know enough to beat you down.

I know not, though I hope that God does know. Are any of you, again, in the habit of cheating your neighbours, or dealing unfairly by them?

SEE Cheating the junk-pile.

Yea, through the eyes I can deceive the heart, My skill can cheat the senses without wronging And still the beating of the lover's heart Present the very face for which he's longing: Wide as the poles asunder though they go, They are not quite alone, my help who know.

That's what war can do for your men, you women who are helping them to foster the spirit of holding back, of cheating their government.

I'll cheat thee of thy life, if thou charge me With any chain.

None of these blear illusions can cheat our eyes with any such false presentments.

The man who cheated time.

The bad white trader comes out to Indian country to cheat Indians.

In his Almanack for 1715 [P.P. 2465/7], PARTRIDGE says It is very probable, that the beggarly knavish Crew will be this year also printing Prophecies and Predictions in my name, to cheat the country as they used to do.

I could not help thinking of that line of Virgil referring to quite another sort of intoxication: "With Voluntary dreams they cheat their minds.

Although each of those defects does happen sometimes, or indeed often, so that it is necessary either to stop abruptly, or else to proceed further, lest our brevity should appear to have cheated the ears of our hearers, or our prolixity to have exhausted them.

A splendid imposition!which cheats the planter of his gains, cheats the British nation of its money, and robs the world of what else might have been a glorious example of immediate and entire emancipation.

The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

To cheat a friend, or ward, he leaves to Peter, The good man heaps up nothing but mere metre, Enjoys his garden and his book in quiet; And thena perfect hermit in his diet.

I can't stop them cheating the Revenue, which is what they certainly mean to do, without exposing myself to more inconvenience than I am disposed to undergo in the cause of the Revenue.

He cheats the rich for their money, and the poor for charity, and, if either succeed, both are pleased, and he passes for a very just and conscientious man: for as those that pay nothing ought at least to speak well of their entertainments, their testimony makes way for those who are able to pay for both.

215 collocations for  cheats