28 examples of cadger in sentences

"Then Cadger must have seen the robbers, if they captured him; how about that, Chief?" he demanded, eagerly; for the excitement was beginning to take hold of him.

" "And would you mind telling us what Cadger had to tell, Chief?" asked Frank.

"Cadger says he was caught napping, not that he was asleep; but never dreaming of any danger, he stepped over to the door when he heard a knock and a voice said: 'It's me, Cadger, Mr. Hedden, the cashier; I forgot some important papers, and have gotten out of bed to come back for them.

"Cadger says he was caught napping, not that he was asleep; but never dreaming of any danger, he stepped over to the door when he heard a knock and a voice said: 'It's me, Cadger, Mr. Hedden, the cashier; I forgot some important papers, and have gotten out of bed to come back for them.

"And so of course poor old Cadger, who is as honest as the day is long, never suspected any trick, but went and opened the door a crack?" "Just what he did," returned the Chief, "and as that side of the bank was in the shadow he could only see the figure of a man, who slipped in alongside him.

Cadger started to struggle but another man must have joined the first, for he was knocked unconscious by a cruel blow, that's left his face all bloody and after that he didn't know a thing for an hour or two.

And chances are, that when Cadger did come to, he found himself tied up, and unable to even whisper?

And lying there, Cadger watched the two yeggs go through the whole operation of getting nitroglycerine planted, and using all sorts of clothes and even the rugs off the floor of the president's room to deaden the sound of the explosion.

" "And Cadger saw it all, did he?" asked practical Frank.

Then, just at a quarter to three they doused the glim, which was only an electric torch one of them carried, and skipped out, locking the door on poor Cadger.

"Tell us, did Cadger say anything about the thieves wearing masks over their faces; or did they use handkerchiefs to hide them from him?" "I didn't mention that matter, but it was just as you say, Frank; both men had on masks all the time," answered the police officer.

" "What description did Cadger give of the men, Chief?" queried Frank.

They make us friends or enemies for life: Hortense, half-tamed she-wolf, with envy livid; The patient Snagsby and his shrewish wife; The amorous Guppy, who poor Esther chivvied; Tempestuous Boythorn, revelling in strife; Skimpole, the honey-tongued artistic cadger; And that tremendous woman, Mrs. Badger.

Petitioner N. petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer^; seeker. beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper^, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer

retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler^; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus^; sutler^, vivandiere^; costerman^, costermonger^; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner. money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist^, usurer, moneyer^, banker.

You're a cadger, that's what you are.

When or where this laudator temporis acti closed his wanderings, the author never heard with certainty; but most probably, as Burns says "he died a cadger-powny's death

But to do that has aye been a favorite trick of cadgers and beggars.

This morning I received a guinea and a newspaper cutting entitled "A Cadger for Copy," which may appeal to some people's sense of humour.

He was pointed out to me as the 'gentleman-cadger,' because he was so free with his money when 'in luck.'

I have heard through the kitchen whispers that you know come to me, that he is entitled to some property; and I expect if he were to die his wife would pay the hundred pound bill I hold; at any rate, what I have told you I know to be true, and the bundle of rags I relieved just now is known in every thieves' lodging in England as the 'gentleman cadger.'

The next day, his first care was to distribute fifty pounds among his friends, the cadgers, at a "house of call" in Westminster, and formally to dissolve his connection with them; those present undertaking for the "fraternity," that for the future he should never be noticed by them in public or private.

" The king's errand may come the cadger's gate yet.

"Ay," he said, coolly, "it's no ill at that; there was a cadger body yestreen, and there's yoursell the day."

Mr. Leslie, with an old-fashioned zeal for the Established Church, said to him, "The king will come in the cadger's road some day.

28 examples of  cadger  in sentences