However, there is my hand--I forgive you, trusting with all a woman's foolish confidence that you had some good reason for cheating me.
It pleased me to have it demonstrated, that a purser without professed cheating is a professed loser, twice as much as he gets.
Bolton, in cheating the poor of the City (out of the collections made for the people that were burned) of 1800l.
They were constituted by ballot, something in the manner of the Jockey Club; but without the possibility of being dishonourable, or the opportunity of cheating each other.
This example of recreative cheatingat baccarat, is only given as a specimen.
It may be imagined, that in a game where there are four people playing, cheating is impracticable, since the cards the sharper ought to deal, are collected and shuffled by another person.
The more able player he is, the less is it necessary to call cheating to his aid.
The art of cheating at play, is to me only high philosophy put in practice.
In fact, the art ofcheating was still in its infancy.
The Biseautee Card was one of the principal methods of cheatingin the last century.
First of all, tell me what you call cheating at play?
This trick is generally employed in cheating at Piquet.
His Lordship told us, that Foote had intended to bring on the stage a father who had thus tutored his son, and to shew the son an honest man to every one else, but practising his father's maxims upon him, and cheating him.
Richelieu found that his officers were cheating his soldiers in their pay and disheartening them; in the face of the enemy he had to reorganize the army and to create a new military system.
Mr. Clarke was directed to pay to John Baker the sum of thirty-eight shillings, for cheating him in a sale of cloth.
When Monk Tooley came up from the mine that evening and examined the check-board to see how the numbers to his credit compared with the tally he had kept, he became very angry, and accused the check boss of cheating him.
Then they became very angry, and tried to have Colonel Shoemaker thrown into prison for cheating them.
Now I cannot think otherwise than that cheating is cheating, and that a person is not a bit more honest, because he laughs at you in the bargain.
We didn't care much about the land crabs eating him, who had made so many poor dead men chew tobacco, cheating their wives and relations, or Greenwich Hospital, as it might happen.
While that fox-like Jew was reaping rich profit and deluding himself in believing he was successfully cheating an Indian, he was only sowing the seed that soon or late was destined to end in murder.
Feeling sure that those whom he had duped would not dare to expose him, he yet acted cautiously and began his cheating at widely separated points.
They are a subtle and treacherous race of people, and take every opportunity of cheating and plundering the credulous and unsuspecting negroes.
We men of business cannot bear to be too much cheated; a little cheating we submit to--much cheating raises our gall.
Warren, he calling him cheating knave, but I cooled him, and at night at Sir W.
Among other things it pleased me to have it demonstrated, that a Purser without professed cheating is a professed loser, twice as much as he gets.
With singing and witch fires she lures our boats to the reefs and takes toll of us, lulling even the elders to dream, cheating them with the firelight and voices of their homes.
You seem to think the one thing I can swallow as creditable, even probable, is that an officer in the Morays has been pilfering and cheating at cards.
In it there is no longer talk of pact with the demon, express or tacit, to obtain certain results, with the expectation of washing out the sin in the confessional and thus cheating the devil.
Pen began to talk with me like a counterfeit rogue very kindly about his house and getting bills signed for all our works, but he is a cheating fellow, and so I let him talk and answered nothing.
Up and to my office about business, examining people what they could swear against Field, and the whole is, that he has called us cheating rogues and cheating knaves, for which we hope to be even with him.
Matta; "why, faith, it is because we are cheating you.
They take every opportunity of cheating and plundering the credulous and unsuspecting negroes.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money.
Sir, this policy exhausts itself in cheating the man who buys or sells or loans on credit, who produces something to sell on credit; whether that something be food or clothing; whether it be a necessity or a luxury of life.
Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deluded them with paper money.
