I do not suppose that even my host, on havingswindled a confiding widow out of the whole of her property, was put to more actual suffering than a man will readily undergo at the hands of an English doctor.
The next case was that of a youth barely arrived at man's estate, who was charged with having beenswindled out of large property during his minority by his guardian, who was also one of his nearest relations.
But she promised to send Dave word if she heard anything, and seeing that she was poor Dave paid her the money out of which Jasniff had swindled her, about six dollars and a half.
While you were in Albany you swindled a man named Dodsworth Sadler out of a large sum of money--at least twelve or fifteen hundred dollars.
Why, the very day I left New York a man over eighty, who had been swindled out of all he had, rather than go to one of those Christian institutions deliberately forged a check and demanded to be sent to the penitentiary.
Why the devil was you not in Brook Street yesterday to tell me that your uncle had swindled you?
He opened a booth first, where he sat and cursed Leh Shin whenever he passed, saying loudly that he had ruined him and swindled him out of all his little store, that by hard work and attention to business he had collected.
Everybody knew the curio dealer: he had beguiled and swindled each new arrival in Mangadone, and his personality helped to make him a very definite figure in the place.
She ran into debt, and was swindled by the moneylenders; her steward cheated her, her servants pilfered her; her distress was at last acute.
In a sudden burst of contrition he went on, "I think the worst thing this Government has been swindled upon has been these confounded Hall's carbines; they have been elevated in price to $22.
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I recalled how I had been swindled recently in a trade, and resolved to make a deal with that boy by hook or by crook.
Maelzel never returned to Vienna, but at a later period appealed in a letter to the friend whom he had swindled when he thought that he needed his recommendation for the metronome.
But it was not only in the exorbitant rates charged and in the unspeakably low prices paid for objects of merchandise that the Christian trader swindled his pagan fellow men.
He had been a contractor to the late Republic, in horse-forage, and had swindled the Government (people said) to the tune of some millions of francs.
It is vendetta, and has been vendetta any day since the Saturday before last, when old Stephanu Ceccaldi swindled me out of that very horse from which you have alighted: and it fills me with wonder to see him here.
You come home some night and say, "Well, my dear, you are right; that man swindled me out of my last dollar.
You will scarcely believe, but we've been swindled again, and in the most barefaced manner possible, by that seemingly repentant hound on board the steamer.
For a consideration I have no doubt he would find us a vessel, and though we may have to pay him for his trouble, he will take very good care that we are not swindled by any other party.
It is that Dick Brunsen, who swindled the syndicate with that faked copper-vein.
It seems that some of the miners—the Roseneath lot, you know—recognized the voice of the man in the coffin as belonging to young Dick Brunsen, who had swindled the Syndicate.
A man who has been swindled will be very cautious the second time, and the third.
The fourth time he may be swindled again more easily and completely than before.
He had been cheated, he said, and swindled considerably, and had cheated and swindled others in retaliation.
You were Con Morton's partner when he swindled me out of the best part of my fortune, and you can tell Con, when you see him, that I'm looking for him.
That Morton fellow swindled me out of a fortune, and I'd like a chance to get it back.
You haveswindled me out of thousands, and you know it; and now, without giving me a hint, you come upon me in this way.
But if a man has once swindled or killed anybody, he has lost his honor, and, as a rule, remains a scoundrel for the rest of his life.
Many a one finds his honor in this wise deeply attacked, particularly when it is shown him that he is betraying an accomplice, or that he has swindled his comrades in the division of booty, etc.
Yes, among those who were not swindled by his mining scheme.
The great war increased in intenseness, and the world was topsy-turvy, but Frau Kupfer and Gertrude indulged in every extravagant pleasure, and swindled high and low alike.
She had swindled scores of acquaintances, and it was hardly safe for her to appear in London, Paris and other cities.
But generally he was the well-dressed man of the world, and boldly swindled tradespeople under the name of "Sir Richard Douglas.
Undeterred by previous experience, she sought for another victim of the Borradaile type, and, finding one, swindled her with cynical effrontery until the dupe turned against her.
It was a wonderful feat considering the circumstances, but she stopped at nothing, and she even swindled the maidservants out of their savings.
I say nothing about the money you've swindled Mrs. Ben Dixon out of.
But I want the money you've swindled that poor boy and girl upstairs out of--and I mean to have it.
He's swindled me out of all my fortune--all the money that Travers left me.
I say nothing about the money you've swindled me out of.
I find that he has been swindled by a man in London--a moral swindle only possible because of your father's charming innocence.
This alone convinced me more than ever that I had been swindled completely out of my goods.
At any rate we didn't feel that we had been absolutely swindled out of our money; so, after giving the fellow a good sound lecturing, we let him go.
I take my line: ladies, you have been swindled out of a large sum of money.
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