They would have been not a little surprised to learn that under this quiet garb walked two of the most accomplished swindlers in a city abounding in adventurers of all kinds.
The work was entitled The Swindlers Unmasked, and it contained a violent attack on oracles.
So great was the declension, that this Neoplatonic philosophy was still the protecting roof for many influential and earnest thinkers, although swindlers and hypocrites also concealed themselves under this roof.
Besides guarding against thefts of valuable freight while in transit, patrons at the crowded stations and depots must be protected so far as possible from the operations of pickpockets, swindlers and baggage thieves.
Usually such swindlers are not discovered until the end of a month, when the customer receives his or her bill, but by which time the swindler may be in some distant city preparing to victimize another store.
Thousands of hotel keepers and merchants are victimized yearly through cashing forged, bogus and worthless checks presented by oily tongued swindlers who tell plausible stories as to how they happen to be out of funds, etc.
If swindlers choose to tamper with my paper, what's it to do with me?
You ought to take proper precautions, and safeguard me against swindlers and forgers.
Justice is surer and swifter when the criminal's offense is once proven in the courts; but the many technicalities and the positive nature of proof required enables a large number of swindlers and rascals to keep at large.
Another trick of the New York swindlers is to send a circular to someone in a distant town, notifying him that he has drawn a prize in their lottery, say a watch worth two hundred dollars.
There is scarcely a town or village in the United States but is reached in this way, and as there are many simpletons in every community, responses of the character desired by the swindlers come in rapidly.
In this way sharpers and swindlers are kept out of the enclosure, inside of which the emigrant is perfectly safe; and when he ventures out he is warned of the dangers he will have to encounter the moment he passes the gateway.
No one is compelled to transact his business in the building, but all are advised to do so, as they will then be fairly treated; while they are in danger of falling into the hands of swindlers outside.
The world is full of such, however, and large sums are annually received by the New York swindlers in answer to their circulars.
No one cares to avow himself a party to any such transaction, and consequently the swindlers are safe from prosecution.
The men who insert these advertisements are among the most unprincipled swindlersin New York.
Legal proceedings are expensive and tedious when instituted against such parties, and the stockholders, rather than increase their losses by the outlay necessary for a lawsuit, suffered the swindlers to go unmolested.
Mr. Tricher, this gentleman has brought us a letter from Scotland Yard; he is in search of two swindlers who have made off with a good deal of money.
The croupiers and the clerks, the Jews who lend money at high interest, the Christians who let lodgings, all the rogues and swindlers who one way or another make a living out of the play, fill the air with their complaints.
Occasional cheating at play obliges to compensation; professed swindlers at play are punishable as for theft, and banished afterwards.
The swindlers then asked for more money, and silk, and gold thread; but they put as before all that was given them into their own pocket, and still continued to work with apparent diligence at the empty loom.
So the worthy old minister went to the room where the two swindlers were' working away with all their might and main.
And so he began praising the stuff that he could not see, and told the two swindlers how pleased he was to behold such beautiful colours, and such charming patterns.
One day two swindlers came to this city; they made people believe that they were weavers, and declared they could manufacture the finest cloth to be imagined.
Both swindlersrequested him to come near, and asked him if he did not admire the exquisite pattern and the beautiful colours, pointing to the empty looms.
Now the swindlers asked for more money, silk and gold-cloth, which they required for weaving.
The good old minister went into the room where the swindlers sat before the empty looms.
The emperor and all his barons then came to the hall; the swindlers held their arms up as if they held something in their hands and said: "These are the trousers!
The emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put the new suit upon him, one piece after another; and the emperor looked at himself in the glass from every side.
The whole night previous to the day on which the procession was to take place, the swindlers pretended to work, and burned more than sixteen candles.
Various instances illustrative of the methods of these swindlers are given.
I'll never pay a franc of them--damned swindlers and Jew money-lenders!
Let me tell you he was an honest man, who sold wine for six sous a litre without putting any drugs in it, like your swindlers in Paris!
Conceited asses who want to be flattered, fools who flatter them, parasites who suck your blood, swindlers who ruin you, and men who turn their backs on you when you're unlucky!
Although the legal adviser of swindlers and confidence men, he was a type of American whose energies, if turned in a less dubious direction, might well have brought him honorable distinction.
And first, then, with regard to the city of Paris, it is to be remarked, that in that metropolis flourish a greater number of native and exotic swindlers than are to be found in any other European nursery.
In the first place, our author describes a swindler imitating the manners of a dandy: and many swindlers and dandies be there, doubtless, in London as well as in Paris.
He learned that many similarswindlers were wandering on the roads, cheating credulous people.
The handwriting of thieves can scarcely be distinguished from that of ordinary persons, but the handwriting of swindlers is easier to recognise, as it generally lacks clearness although it preserves a certain uniformity.
Of course swindlers and forgers are not admitted to trades like lithography, for reasons easy to understand.
Forgers and swindlers wear a singular, stereotyped expression of amiability on their pale faces, which appear incapable of blushing and assume only a more pallid hue under the stress of any emotion.
It would exceed our limits even to enumerate the devices which have been tried by different swindlers with greater or less success.
The "original Doctor Jacobs" excoriates unmercifully the whole tribe ofswindlers whose rascalities debauch and bring odium upon the trade.
The object of the latter, is to enrich swindlers at the expense of the honest and industrious part of the nation.
But this, the only resource which the government could command with certainty, the States have unfortunately fooled away, nay corruptly alienated to swindlers and shavers, under the cover of private banks.
The 9 cases enumerated as swindlers showed this offense in varying degrees, as might naturally be expected by the differences in ages, which, if nothing else, makes for variations in the evolution of social and character tendencies.
It must be confessed that the success of much of the misrepresentation cited in these case histories seems to be as largely due to the naivete of the country folk as to the efforts of the swindlers themselves.
Under such circumstances it could not fail that swindlers par excellence sometimes found their way among the royal and noble gamblers.
Don't let's allow swindlers to get the best of us so easy!
The fact of the matter is that the two swindlers left on the last train, and this boy's money has gone with them beyond a doubt.
Won't those swindlers be mad when they hear of this!
It would be a joke on those swindlers if that mine should prove of value," went on Ned, after a pause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swindlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
