But neither the eyes, alas, nor the purses of our two emigrants are conformable to the Law; the former are filled with granulations of trachoma, the latter have been emptied by the sharpers of Marseilles.
This bogus currency has been extensively used by sharpers all over the country to swindle ignorant people and its manufacture is in violation of law.
Or yet again we watch the exposure of the sharpers and bullies, and the denunciation of others who brought even greater ruin on those who fell into their clutches.
Stevens, and other sharpers had their base of operations.
Peculation appeared on every hand, white sharpers abounded, and Indians, relatively affluent, subsisted at government expense.
Beware of treachery and craft, lest there befall thee what befell the sharpers who plotted against the merchant.
But as a matter of fact he is keeping his eye on a young "swell" who is sitting at a little table, talking loudly and boastingly to a man in evening dress who belongs to the cleverest gang of card-sharpers in London.
Among them are men of good position in the sporting world, but there are also card-sharpers and tricksters.
English card-sharpers arrange cards into “concaves and convexes” and “longs and shorts.
Who these Brighton magistrates were I never heard, but probably they were gentlemen who knew nothing of sharpers and their ways, and whose only experience of cards was a quiet rubber with the ladies of their household.
Dozens of sharpers are on the watch for them, and woe to them if they fall into the hands of these wretches.
In this way sharpers and swindlers are kept out of the enclosure, inside of which the emigrant is perfectly safe; and when he ventures out he is warned of the dangers he will have to encounter the moment he passes the gateway.
Illustration: Castle Garden, the place the emigrants land--Sharpers trying to swindle them.
They fall victims to the sharpers who line the street, and the articles they buy are dear at whatever price they may pay for them.
The sharpers and tricksters who infest Wall Street, know this weakness of New York merchants.
A fine thing it would be to see, no one knows how many great names mixed up with those of sharpers and notorious women!
This rich man, whose passions had dragged him into the vilest dens of Europe, was thoroughly acquainted with sharpers and scoundrels of every type, from those who ride in their carriages down to the bare-footed vagabond.
Sharpers who cheated each his Fellow, The Two, ii.
The Sharpers with the Money-Changer and the Assdccccxiv w.
So the thieves fled, whilst the two sharpers retained to Er Razi's house and made peace with one another and laid the thieves' purchase to the money they had gotten aforetime and lived a while of time.
Four sharpers once plotted against a money-changer, a man of abounding wealth, and agreed upon a device for the taking of somewhat of his money.
Nor," added the vizier, "is this more extraordinary or rarer than the story of the two sharpers who cozened each his fellow.
Story of the Two Sharpers Who Cheated Each His Fellow e.
Story of the Sharpers with the Money-Changer and the Ass f.
In "The Alchemist" Jonson represented, none the less to the life, certain sharpers of the metropolis, revelling in their shrewdness and rascality and in the variety of the stupidity and wickedness of their victims.
Pigeons--dupes of sharpersat play--would have been a more appropriate cognomen.
Unfortunately, however, there is a very easy means by which card sharpers manage the thing to perfection.
Besides, the Indians most preyed upon by the sharpers cannot make themselves understood in the official language, and therefore consider it hopeless to approach the authorities.
Other sharpers borrow money from the natives and never pay back the loan, or else impose fines on the Indians under the pretext of being authorities.
The card sharpers were treated like honest people.
The card sharperswere admired, just as the Rinaldo Rinaldinis and Himlo Himlinis from the old rental library were admired, the volumes of which were eagerly read, because it was the only library for both towns.
However, I believe I shall not give the world much trouble about filling my tables for those of evil fame, for I have some thoughts of clapping up the sharpersthere as fast as I can lay hold of them.
Some months afterwards, I was one day reading the "Gazette des Tribunaux," when my eye was arrested by the name of Elias Hausheer, figuring amongst a gang of sharpers of the worst kind.
Roulette and other gambling games were again prohibited, and, with them, the whole gang of sharpers for whom these games had always been a centre of attraction, appeared also to vanish.
Sharpers do not willingly part with the arts on which they depend for their livelihood; and, moreover, you are driven, by your investigations, into a society which may often expose you to serious personal risk.
Sharpers are themselves often the manufacturers of their own cards, and can, therefore, arrange and place their designs where they please.
This voluntary loss is in the language of sharpers called the "bait," and allows them to double their stakes without causing suspicion, enabling them to gain their ends more easily and quickly.
There, he not only found easy dupes, but often, thanks to the depth of his plots, and his extreme cleverness, he managed to take in sharpers themselves.
But it must not be believed, that these sharpers are so unskilful as to cheat always by sleight of hand.
All sharpers are cunning, clever, and tricky, but they do not all possess the same facility for tricks of sleight of hand.
The higher class of sharpers are much in the habit of using this trick, which they perform with a sensitiveness of touch of astounding delicacy.
I wonder I continue to play--but there are such sharpers in the room.
I believe him to be leagued with a gang of sharpers of the lowest description; and I am really unwilling any farther to supply the vicious necessities of himself and his comrades.
Although the cards can be bought ready shaded, most sharpers prefer to do them for themselves.
The average reader may probably be surprised to learn that such a practice has been resorted to by sharpers from time immemorial.
A few sharpers found their way down from London; and at last the Duke of Beaufort instituted an M.
Of course Nash and the sharpers who frequented Bath--and their name was Legion--found means to evade this law for a time, by the invention of new games.
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