Is it because the millionaire swindler has, in fact, been given rights under the law that is denied to the smaller fry?
But the camp follower with ready knife never finished the wounded brave quicker than did the "land grant" swindler finish Mariposa when her riches became the theme of every gold camp throughout the world.
He shows himself to be the worst swindler on the grounds when he tries to scare you into givin' him half you've made, for that's what his talk means.
At this point in the conversation the baggage-master insisted that information of the swindler should be given to the police, and, whether they desired to do so or not, the boys were forced to accompany him to headquarters.
There is not sufficient proof to connect him with the robbery here or at the Run; but I will take care that he is held long enough as a common swindler to enable us to sift the other matter.
Don't hesitate to buy what is wanted, and whether you ever find the swindler or not, I feel very positive my bill will be paid.
How a man could have published so coolly a book in which he was himself held up as a rogue and swindler passes Milton's comprehension; but Ulac, he seems to admit, was no ordinary tradesman.
Ulac then quotes the substance of Milton's account of him as once a swindler and bankrupt in London, then the same in Paris, &c.
The fact is, that so much sharp practice goes on, that the discovered swindler is rarely a sinner above his neighbours: he has simply had the bad luck to be found out.
Why, the old swindler knows that the note has been paid, but he means to get a second payment because we can’t prove that it has been paid once.
That which makes the honest man a pauper and a beggar, and sets the clever swindler in parliament.
The union got a few pounds for her, but the boss was a regular swindler who was always beating men out of their wages and doing anything to get contracts and running everything cheap, so there was nothing to be got out of him.
The two women left for Paris the day before Cesbron, but they only stopped a day at the capital before they proceeded to the Villa the swindler had rented in the vicinity of Fontainebleau.
The arch-swindler never even hinted that he should take shares in the secret food trust, and as he got many luxurious dinners at her expense he was only too glad to number her amongst his acquaintances.
It was a critical moment, and had Douglas not been an accomplished swindler he would have bolted, but he held his ground, and by sheer personal magnetism won the secretary over.
But the swindler did not speak, and the countess proceeded: "I am sure you need capital.
That was not surprising, seeing that when the swindler informed her that she and Lord Ranelagh were to be married by proxy she unhesitatingly accepted that extraordinary way of becoming a peeress.
Madame Guerin did not look like a swindler or talk in the manner of a professional matrimonial agent.
The swindler maintained the deception by giving dinners, for which the elite scrambled to obtain invitations.
Every morning for weeks the happy family at Ascot enjoyed the newspaper references to the great mystery, and congratulated themselves that the secretary's and the manager's descriptions of the swindler resembled anybody but the bogus "baronet.
The widow was crazy to become beautiful, and, when chance enabled the swindler to get Mrs. Borradaile completely in her power, the rest was easy.
The impostor was unable to extricate himself, and at the ensuing Sessions he and his sons were sentenced to imprisonment, and after that catastrophe nothing more was heard of the venerable swindler until a newspaper recorded his death in 1858.
The coronet mentioned in the letter quoted never had any existence, although the swindler was given eight hundred pounds to pay for it.
But that she was a very dangerous adventuress and swindler was obvious, and everybody was surprised when the judge passed sentence of three years' imprisonment only.
There might be food riots in Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg and scores of other places, but the friends of the swindler never wanted for anything, and Frau Kupfer's dinners were her best protection against exposure.
The swindler pretended that she had an infallible remedy for this, and when the statesman's wife called she did not hesitate to guarantee a cure, provided her instructions were followed.
The clever swindler defrauded my father, and the clever daughter uses the inherited arts and swindles the son.
A few minutes later, the two men called one another thief and swindler and a hundred other names.
And you, you lowborn Tzigane, are the cheapest swindler on earth.
Opinions will be discussed of the identity of a swindler who has been duping furniture dealers by selling them furniture from houses or flats he has rented.
One may study the stages by which the professional criminal has adapted the work of invention to his ends, and mark at the same time how the swindler always strikes the same old chord of credulity in human nature.
In the mysterious stillness of the morning, her mind looked on to its second and its deeper design, and the despicable figure of the swindler rose before her in a new view.
Mr. Gaston has gone to Boston, but I could write to him if you think that Mr. Fenton is a swindler and that you can get back any money which he may have defrauded your father out of.
I am no more of a swindler than you are--perhaps not as much.
He had to establish the identity of the greatest swindler of modern times, Montague Fallock.
A terrible business for Herr Schmidt," thought the Inspector; "the affair is certainly not literally as he represents it, but Luebbener is perhaps the biggest swindler of the two.
They positively identified him as a notorious swindler and assured Doris and her friends that the reward money would go to them.
Jake crossed over to the swindler and jerked him roughly out of the chair into which he had slumped.
Utterly confounded, and dreading the consequences if the third card should now be revealed, the swindler tried to shuffle out of his awkward position by giving in.
With an oath the swindler refused, betraying by his agitation that for once he had met his match.
The professional swindler leant back with a satisfied smile.
Then don't choose a swindler and an ex-convict for your bailiff.
For good or ill the swindlerhad made his decision, and he realised that no effort of his would alter it.
The rust of twelve bitter years had corroded the bolts of that closed door behind which the swindler hid his lonely soul, and it was not in the power of any man to move them.
It is made the instrument of the thief, the swindler and the murderer.
With the other class it is a dead loss, and the swindler can give them the laugh.
The conspiracy between the swindler and his accomplice, the pawn broker, is almost self-evident.
The blackmailer is a well known character in all large cities, and certainly the arch swindler of the day.
The absconding swindler is usually succeeded by an "agent" or "manager," who repudiates the bills against his rascally predecessor and continues the work of fleecing the gullible under some new title or by means of some new trick.
The cleverness and boldness with which the up-to-date investment swindler plies his craft are almost incredible.
The watchdog at the gate can size up a swindler as well as a man.
It is that common belief which theswindler makes, as it were, the psychic basis for his operations.
It was the case of a swindler stealing César's mantle.
Palmer~, a swindler who used to visit shops under the pretence of collecting harp halfpence.
The earl is pursuing him now, not only as his daughter's seducer, but as a swindler and a thief.
The swindler passes it on to confederates, and the latter employ a respectable firm of solicitors to ask the dupe if his signature is genuine.
The swindler says he has the money and would lend it; but, as the borrower is his brother, he cannot charge interest.
When the friendship is thoroughly established, the swindler remarks to the young man that he has a brother who has asked him to lend him Rs.
The swindler allows the scheme to remain quiescent for a time, and then suggests that, as the money has not been repaid and as it would be unpleasant to sue his brother, it would be better to sell the note in the bazaar.
