Forsake thy dead Duke, and that cheat of Liberty more crazy and fantastic still.

Deemest thou that I will brook being thus cheated of my dear-bought talisman?

Thus am I cheated of my recompense.

Menippus was born at Gadara in Coele-Syria, and from a slave he grew to be a Cynic philosopher, chiefly occupied with scornful jests on his neighbours, and a money-lender, who made large gains and killed himself when he was cheated of them all.

Little ElizabethI smile to write her name upon the page with theseit were a shame to cheat of beauty by any bungle of description.

Poor indeed, unutterably poor and cheated of his heritage is he who has not passed that way.

Her heart was full of an aching pity for that other girl whom life had cheated of her sweetest gift.

The whole thing was drab and unattractive to the utmost limit, and Avery rose at length from her knees with a feeling of having been deliberately cheated of a thing she valued.

What, haveinge fyrst beene cheated of thy wealthe, Darest thou againe be cheated of thy witt, And thynke so poor a lord as is my father, The most dyspysd forsaken Ganelon, Can propp thy mynde, fortune's shame upon thee!

The vengeance that old Mr. Carson had longed to compass for the murder of his beloved boy was thwarted; he had been cheated of the desire that now ruled his lifethe desire of blood for blood.

Oh, she had herself been cheated of her due; for all that she had managed to squeeze out something like real tears over old Sivert's grave.

It was Moses Primrose, cheated of his horse with a gross of green spectacles cased in shagreen.

Accurs'd of dreams the treacherous wiles, The cheat of glory, deathless fame!

He alternately triumphed in the completion of his revenge, and regretted the loss of the reward to the shrivelled old curmudgeon we had just quitted, whom however he swore he would cheat of it by one means or another.

Bellowing againthe untamed centaur cheated of the doe!

"I've been cheated of the best from the very outset," he said, "cheated and thwarted at every turn.

He knew now that he had been cheated of all his great long-nursed hopes of some superior exaltation.

Brother Brigham, she shouldn't be cheated of her place in the Kingdom.

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

She was cheated of her innocent dream.

After the first headlong half mile, Tejon became the perfect little saddle-pony which fair weather found him; and Teresita, cheated of her battle of wills and yet too honest to provoke him deliberately, began to think a little less of her own whims and more of the Señora Simpson, housed miserably beneath the canvas covering of the prairie schooner.

Did ever any Lady weepe, Being cheated of her golden sleepe, Stolne by sicke thoughts?The pirats found, And in her teares hee shalbe drownd.

He would not be cheated of his after-dinner luxury, so he gagged them with sticks, and replenished the fires.[T] [Footnote T: Llorente's Oeuvres de Las Casas; Première Mémoire, contenant la Relation des Cruautés, etc.]

The embassy was cancelled and the disappointed ambassador cheated of the distinction and pleasure he already tasted in anticipation.

So you see I will not be cheated of my wooing, and I know you would not endanger my life's happiness.