Their huge conceit of intelligence would breed perhaps some viler swindle than my facetious rappings.

I cannot enter the swindle in better company than yours; but both of us were happier on the Sadower Heath behind the partridges.

Of a morning sometimes, I can assure you, I lie in bed fancying that people may have found out this swindle in the night, expect to hear a tumult downstairs and see your mother-in-law come rushing into the room with a rejected shilling from the milkman.

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.

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