214 examples of swindle in sentences

The Ronleian is a beastly swindle, and it's high time we had something different." (A voice, "No, 'tisn't," and the bursting of a paper bag.)

I say it is a swindle: they didn't give any account of that fourth eleven match against Robertson's second, and they made fun of us in the 'Quad Gossip,' and said that in 'The Happy Family' there was a preponderance of monkey."

" "Verily, he is a scheming man, who will swindle you out of the eight hundred pounds when you have secured it.

He had come there with a carefully concocted lie on his tongue to swindle the sharpest lawyer in Scranton out of enough money to fill an empty purse.

What an unmitigated swindle it would have been if he had carried out his scheme!"

He wants to swindle both of usthat is, those whom we represent.

It's a swindle.

It's a swindle to pay three cents for the Herald in such monotonous times.

They are very clever at making a good bargain; when they know of a rich merchant being in the place, they disguise themselves, enter into communications with him, and swindle him, ... after which they change their clothes, have their horses shod the reverse way, and the shoes covered with some soft material lest they should be heard, and gallop away.

An Outrageous Swindle VII.

CHAPTER VI An Outrageous Swindle Amarendra Babu had expected Kumodini Babu to run after him, with entreaties to return and the promise of a note of hand for Rs.

Till then let us stifle at least all outward expressions of disgust or indignation at the legal swindle.

Though weak and lame In parts that gave to others fame, Yet sought not he by such defect To swindle praise for wise neglect Of vulgar charms, that only blind The dazzled eye to those of Mind.

"He wanted to swindle me," thought Andy.

He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.

It was general Choke who induced Martin Chuzzlewit to stake his all in the egregious Eden swindle.

Mississippi declared that the Cincinnati platform was a great political swindle on one half the States of the Union; and from that time on the Cotton States ceased to act as a part of the convention.

The Vatican swindle.

John Sadleir thereupon killed himself; his brother James was expelled from the House of Commons, and he and several others implicated in the swindle fled the country and never reappeared, and so the "Brass Band" broke up, amid the well-deserved contempt of men of every shade of political opinion.

But do you think it is hers, or a swindle?' 'Didn't she say she had given her autograph?' exclaimed Susan.

"It's part of your swindle to assume that you do know why.

till it drowns the chiming minster bells, Whose sound this swindle of your rights by crafty Austria tells!

That portion of the public who read bad novels cannot be reached by criticism; but if they could only be reached by Scott, they would quickly discover and resent the swindle of which they have so long been the victims.

Kalkilatin' wot she cost me in repairs and taxes, and wot she brought me in since then, accordin' to my figgerin', I don't call a clear profit of 15,000 dollars much of a swindle.

He doesn't swindle any one, but he takes good care at the same time not to let any one swindle him.

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