The Lord Chief Justice had a great knowledge of card-sharping and of all other rogueries, so that he was an apt man to deal with delinquents who practised them.
I was engaged in the Brighton card-sharping case, upon which so much stress was laid by the Claimant as proving his identity with Roger Tichborne, Roger not having been in the matter at all.
Having now got two smiths’ hearths above the reach of the tide, the work of this department made great progress, both in the sharping of the numerous picks and irons, and in making bats for fixing the different railway tracks upon the Rock.
This is the most unprofitable evil upon earth, for it only tends to alienate the proper current of specie, to maintain a pack of idle sharping rascals, and beggar unwary gentlemen and traders.
Syne I pulled out the little drawer, and got the sharping strap, the which I fastened to my button.
He had half a dozen under-catchpoles along with him, and removed the whole sharping congregation to the prison, where our gentility saw itself in great peril.
The further Proceedings of this Sharping Gang, till they were thrown all together into Gaol 166 CHAP.
The further Proceedings of this Sharping Gang, till they were thrown all together into Gaol.
This principle has been the basis of all the 'new and improved' systems that have been put before the sharpingpublic ever since.
We have been compelled to dwell somewhat at length upon matters which are associated with cards and card-games only, because so large a proportion of the sharping which goes on in the world is card-sharping.
In connection with sharping of any kind, as in every other branch of art, whether sacred or profane, legal or illegal, one fact is always distinctly noticeable.
How Pantagruel arrived at the island ofSharping Chapter 5.
Hugh's suspicions about card-sharping were dissipated as before.
Before he joined the present gang, a few of whom we have collared from time to time, card-sharping was his lay.
Then he quitted the card-sharping game and went in for more criminal pursuits.
Moreover, there can be no doubt that many modern instances of billiard sharping occur, such as I have just quoted, in which the unwary are unscrupulously 'fleeced.
Newmarket was a wily labyrinth of loss and gain, a fruitful field for the display of gambling abilities, the school of the sharping crew, the academy of the Greeks, the unfathomable gulf that absorbed princely fortunes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
