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Example sentences for "shyster"

Lexicographically close words:
shyness; shyneth; shyning; shyp; shyppe; sia; siaj; siajn; siamo
  1. The wrath of Judge Martin Pike was august--there was a kind of sublimity in its immenseness--on a day when it befell that the shyster stood betwixt him and money.

  2. The broom-maker's companion, reading the Tocsin as the two walked together, had begun the quarrel by remarking that Happy Fear ought to be hanged once for his own sake and twice more "to show up that shyster Louden.

  3. By a girl, a bank-clerk, and a shyster lawyer?

  4. And Annie with her sore ankle and--" "A little shyster doctor like Abrams with his advertisements all over the newspapers should sponge off you and your holiday!

  5. With the words "The defense rests" every suggestion of the mountebank, the actor or the shyster had vanished.

  6. I'd like to strangle all these shyster lawyers!

  7. So confident am I of this beautiful truth that I prophesy Bo will end a shyster lawyer in a shyster court.

  8. A villain masked has thrice the terror of a villain seen, and to the despairing woman this outward semblance of the negligent dandy magnified immeasurably the lurking venom of the shyster beneath.

  9. With all that he was approaching forty a shyster lawyer, living on the blackmail he shared with the police.

  10. He vacillated a moment suspiciously, wondering whether to accept the situation, but, the shyster prevailing, he turned on his heel and went up the stairs.

  11. There are shyster lawyers here who would not hesitate to advise him wrongly.

  12. I spent the twelve thousand and odd dollars that I rescued from the ruin in suing him, only to discover that the law itself favors the shyster who has money and is sharp enough to circumvent it.

  13. A beggarly shyster whose oath is worthless, and an imbecile old servant, who could be bought for a half-crown!

  14. That shyster and his designing client must, at the last moment, have exerted their inventive faculties to a remarkable degree!

  15. Dick Hobson does not deserve the name of attorney," remarked Ralph Mainwaring; "he is a shyster and a scoundrel.

  16. Things aren't done in just that way-- not even by shyster lawyers.

  17. If ever I saw a shyster lawyer, I saw one when that fellow came into the room.

  18. Mrs. Carringford had had no easy time of it with the shyster lawyer and the others who were making trouble for her over her property.

  19. Yes; and the married shyster rejoiced accordingly.

  20. But the single shyster is a most subtle reptile.

  21. You're just one more Criminal Court shyster now--Renner gave you the heave-ho.

  22. I know of a lawyer who in his profession has the reputation of being the worst shyster that ever argued a case.

  23. This is often brought about by the shyster M.

  24. When the patient recovers speedily, as he would have done with no treatment of any kind, and just as the shyster M.

  25. Did you ever know a shyster to pad his library with Congressional reports?

  26. If he is a natural shyster and shirk he can get through a course in Osteopathy and get his diploma, and this diploma may be about the only proof he could ever give that he is a "superior anatomist.

  27. Something like dismay was created by the ominous remark of ex-Congressman Van Shyster that others might do as they pleased, but as for him, his mind was made up.

  28. Drawing Mr. Spiggott, Editor Hacker, and ex-Congressman Van Shyster about them, a hurried consultation took place.

  29. At each stage we spoke dutifully of the scene and its associations; I sketched, the Shyster spouted poetry and copied epitaphs.

  30. Mr. Denman heard my inquiries with discomposure, but informed me the shyster was already gone.

  31. And frankly, I don't know what a shyster is.

  32. But these shyster lawyers who hang around those places--you 'member Jim O'Leary out home to Athens?

  33. Mr. Wilfred Edgerton suspected that a magistrate's court was a dirty sort of hole, full of brawling shyster lawyers, and he didn't want to know any more about such places than he could help.

  34. Here is where the shrewdness of Mose Kimmel, the shyster lawyer, came in.

  35. A shyster lawyer need but to keep his client off the stand and he can saturate the jury's mind with any facts concerning the defendant's respectability and history which his imagination is powerful enough to supply.

  36. Once they get their clutches on a wealthy client, they resemble the shyster lawyer in their efforts to bleed him by stimulating his fears of publicity and by holding out false hopes of success, and thus prolonging their period of service.

  37. Yep--the shyster got to swearin', and the mother wouldn't stand for it and she fired him.

  38. Long before I was awake, the shyster had disappeared, leaving his bill unpaid.

  39. Who can have put up a shyster [1] like that?

  40. Immediately there sprang into being hordes of swindlers, who, aided by adroit shyster lawyers, invented all sorts of schemes which involved some sort of dishonesty upon the part of the person to be defrauded.

  41. In his dreams, if he ever dreamed, it probably took the shape of the square shouldered District Attorney in the shadow of whose office building the little shyster practised his profession.

  42. Next he had called on Belright Fogg and had scared the shyster lawyer so completely that Fogg had returned the three hundred dollars received from Crowden with scarcely a protest.

  43. What has that shyster lawyer to do with it?

  44. He had had a number of debts, but before he left they had all been paid - strange to say, by a notorious firm of Shyster lawyers, Kerr & Kimmel.

  45. The man who has done a dirty business trick--in reality a hundred miles from being a crime-- engages the shyster to keep him out of jail.

  46. Mr. Rover wrote that he felt certain the shyster lawyer Sobber had on the case was going to present a great mass of "evidence," no doubt manufactured for the occasion.

  47. All felt that the coming legal contest would be a bitter one, and that Tad Sobber and the shyster lawyer who was aiding him would do all in their power to get possession of the fortune found on Treasure Isle.

  48. But as Dick says, he may hire some shyster lawyer to take the matter into the courts.

  49. More than likely he'll try to hire some shyster lawyer to fight for the treasure in the courts.

  50. If this Martin Snodd is a shyster he may have all sorts of evidence cooked up against our friends.

  51. He was in no humor to be "bluffed" by a pompous shyster lawyer.

  52. The claim probably was fraudulent, but, if not, the woman unquestionably was poor and unfortunate: the very fact that she had taken the case to such a shyster as Hinse was proof of that.

  53. These are the shyster lawyers and their runners and agents who prey upon the men and women whom misfortune or crime have delivered into the hands of the law.

  54. The San Francisco Boss may be what we elegantly term a shyster lawyer, but there never was as clever a one; and there's no trick he doesn't know.


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