The grand caravan now on exhibition was originally the fag-end of a large concern, which had been bought up by sharpers to swindle the people.
The showmen were packing their monkeys, ostrich, and ichneumon, temporarily hobbling their elephant, and counting up the proceeds of the day, and making ready for a fresh swindle upon some adjacent town.
After the grants were secured, the companies attempted to swindle the State of Georgia by making payments in depreciated currency.
Not only was he unmolested, but two years later, as we shall see, he carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiarly heinous conditions.
I found them here obliging and civil, ready to earn an honest penny, and grateful for it, and much more inclined to "blarney" a little extra from the traveller than to swindle it out of him.
The case was that of a newspaper which had published the account of a swindle arranged by a director of a limited liability company.
Therefore, if a landlord called them to a meeting and made them some kind of a new offer, it could evidently only be in order to swindle them more cunningly than before.
The Platte here is a mile or more wide, and looks like a noble stream; but it is shallow and treacherous with shoals and quicksands, as well as tainted with alkali, and altogether is about as thorough a swindle as a river can well be.
Judges, when asked to sign it, unhesitatingly branded the whole movement, as only "a cheat and swindle to throw dust into the eyes of people East.
The ubiquity of the swindle is proved by the adventures of a certain M.
Do you want to have a hand in the master's affairs, and swindle him, eh?
All dem soldiers belong to de same crowd, und dey make de trick to swindle me.
Oh, then the bold knight was angry, And cursed both coarse and fine; And asked, "How much is the swindle For your sour and nasty wine?
But the most tremendous swindle of all was the demand of ship-money; a tax he laid upon all seaports, under the pretence of their contributing a certain number of ships to the defence of the country.
It is either a gigantic swindle or it is a clear case of murder.
For we must remember that the professional politicians all stand in together when a financial swindle is being carried out.
But we would not admit that we were beaten, and after mature reflection I hit upon the following as the only possible method of carrying out the swindle we had planned.
On the other hand, this resolution called forth a remarkable attempt to swindle the commonwealth by means of the absolute freedom with which loans were granted.
In other words they would not only swindle the public creditor, but wreck all values.
You are plotting with Henry and Cora Sully to swindle these people--out of everything!
He won't try to swindle any more people out of their hard earned cash.
Remember that if either of you molest me, or attempt to swindle me as you are now doing, then I shall reveal all that I know.
I asked him if he meant toswindle us out of the money for the outfit that he got to enable him to go to Greenland.
If they chose to swindle us, we should just apply to the Small Debt Court.
Well, remember the swindle that has been planted on you was done by one of your own countrymen, not by one of as Anstey hasn't been out here so very many years himself.
Should he write and endeavour to bespeak the latter's aid, telling all the circumstances of his evil fortune and the cruel swindle which had left him penniless?
We never allowed to swindle sick old women and working girls and take nickels off of kids.
Some of the best men I ever worked with in a swindle would resort to trickery at times.
Our peaceful little swindle was constructed on the old saying: "The whole push loves a lover.
If he is determined to go let us go with him and prevent thisswindle from coming off.
The custom-house officers that look after it carry clubs, and it's hard to smuggle in even a bib-and-tucker swindle to work Brooklyn with unless you can pay the toll.
You come up here all sanctified and vanoplied with respectability and a pleasing post office address to swindle him.
The seventh who wants to get money from you and swindle you," said Madame von Blucher, smiling.
I'd like to know what sort of trading isn't a swindle in its way.
It comes out of the swindle as you call it--just the same.
I think Annister is trying to swindle you and me out of this property.
He did not mention that the way he was "in it" was to try to swindle a diamond merchant out of some precious stones, in which he was partly successful.
Mortimer De Royster, and who had tried unsuccessfully to rob and swindle Roy.
Let us always remember that if an Englishman wants to swindle English people, he does not dress up in the uniform of a soldier.
If an Englishman wants to swindle English people he would as soon think of dressing up in the uniform of a messenger boy.
When Philip heard the whole story, he was surprised that so promising a swindle should have collapsed so suddenly.
