When a poor man has almost undone himself for thy sake, thou art for fleecing him, and fleecing him.
One of the most ingenious devices for fleecing the stranger was adopted by an American who lived some years in Paris; he had no patent upon it, and as he is dead now anyone who chooses may take it up.
Virembo then sent us some pombe by his officers, and begged us to have patience, for he was then fleecing Masudi at the encamping-ground near the palace.
This non-interventive order was part of the royal policy, in order that the king might have the full fleecing of his visitors.
The people are said to live by piracy in time of war; and by smuggling and fleecing strangers in time of peace: but I will do them the justice to say, they make no distinction between foreigners and natives.
In general, you are served with the appearance of the most mortifying indifference, at the very time they are laying schemes for fleecing you of your money.
They have all of them grown so large in gormandizing upon money that they have left the work of fleecing individuals, and taken to the enterprise of fleecing nations.
They directed the little children wrongly, slapped the stomachs of those who were gaping in the air, and prowled about, fleecing and annoying every one.
Have you not told how Rome’s insulting priests 250 Led their meek laymen like a herd of beasts; And by their fleecing and their forgery made Their holy calling an accursed trade?
By way of reprisal, Smith produced a well-known and popular engraving, in which Rowlandson and some others are represented as confederates in fleecing an innocent.
It seems that he is a regular professional gambler, who does nothing but go across the ocean and back again, fleecing young fellows like Storm.
I have heard it said that men make trips to and fro merely for the purpose of fleecing their fellow-passengers; but, except in one instance, I never had any experience with this sort of thing.
These unfortunate "mandatars" had a hard time of it; but they did their best, fleecing the peasants to the utmost, and keeping their stewardships.
At last the guileless demoiselle behind the counter found even a more effective way of fleecing her clients.
Commend me to the French hotel-proprietor for fleecing you in cold blood.
Such a mode offleecing the people had been resorted to under Henry III.
He becomes adroit in fleecing customers for his master's sake, and equally dexterous in fleecing his master for his own sake.
The absconding swindler is usually succeeded by an "agent" or "manager," who repudiates the bills against his rascally predecessor and continues the work of fleecing the gullible under some new title or by means of some new trick.
The reason is that these shopkeepers live by fleecingthe rich as the rich live by fleecing the poor.
Have you not told how Rome's insulting priests Led their meek laymen like a herd of beasts; And by their fleecingand their forgery made Their holy calling an accursed trade?
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These two were engaged in fleecing several blue-shirted, half- drunken spikers.
But most of the time was reserved for the fleecing of the builders of the U.
He cries, for instance, to the authorities: “Your government consists in nothing else but fleecing and oppressing the poor common people in order to support your own magnificence and arrogance, till they neither can nor will endure it.
Since it is certain that you govern tyrannically and savagely, forbidding the preaching of the gospel and fleecing and oppressing the people, there is no comfort or hope for you but to perish as those like you have perished.
A peasant tells us that the woman makes a good income fleecing stranded motorists and that the German automobile clubs have published warnings against her.
Probably he felt little compunction at easing the reputed fishermen of their wealth, for he doubtless knew that it was gained by smuggling and it was, after all, only a case of one outlaw fleecing another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleecing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
