The records show that the principal beneficiaries of these swindles were some of the most conspicuous planters, mercantile firms and politicians in the South.
It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
When a man swindles the public out of a certain amount he begins to get scared and wants to return part of it.
In affiliated swindles if the "sucker" does not succumb and remit his money on the inducements offered by one concern, his name is transferred to the lists of another, and he is then bombarded with different literature.
Consequently the safest swindles operated today are those having race-track betting for their basis.
If one should moralize on the turfswindles it would only be to repeat the old story--avarice.
Affiliated swindles operated in succession by a gang of "fakers" use the same list of "suckers.
Money-grasping church deacons were the favorite agents for these swindles and widowed women without business judgment their most common victims.
Well, you see, I didn't know; mining swindles are not such rarities as you may imagine.
Some new swindles he had encountered during his first year's experience had taught him lessons that he profited by in the second and third.
The heading was the same, but he had read only a sentence or two when he found that the mica-mine was one of the greatestswindles ever attempted on poor old innocent financial London!
For we play on people's heart strings, while the other swindlesappeal chiefly to cupidity.
The working people have just been paid off, and many of them are here now to squander their earnings in theswindles of the rascals who preside over the "Exchanges.
It would require a volume to describe all the swindles and rogueries carried on in this city.
The hugeswindles upon the Government carried on by Roberts during the Civil War are described in later chapters in this work.
They play in partnership (secret), and are invincible, as they know all the various swindles and so can protect themselves from being cheated.
Nevertheless, he claims to be a perfectly honest man, and declares that he is no more responsible for the swindles that are committed by means of his stocks than a gunsmith for a murder committed with a gun that he has sold.
Drayton's clerks were rather too stylish-looking; or else, perhaps, he felt apprehensive of one of those numerous petty swindles of which shopkeepers are constantly the victims.
Some are worth reproducing, for the police subsequently captured two of these astonishing compilations, which gave a complete history of his swindlesand impostures.
While the "baronet" was busy on swindles of this nature his two sons were equally active.
These form a clever, mobile fraternity who operate swindles and robberies in one part after another, dodging in and out of various police districts.
Gambling swindles are numerous, seized for the most part on race-courses.
Shopmen’s) Raseur, one who swindles a fellow shop-assistant out of his sale.
The farmer does not compass sublime swindles like the merchant, nor such sharp practice as the lawyer; but in small ways he is the peer of either.
But indignation at swindlesis sometimes cumulative.
It is high time that the credulous portion of our community should be saved from the deceptions, delusions, and swindles of these blasphemous mountebanks and impostors.
And this is true, although we exclude crimes and arrant swindles from the definition of it, according to the somewhat careful explanation which is given in the beginning of the chapter succeeding this one.
I have before me a mass of letters, printed and lithographed circulars, and the like, which illustrate well two or three of the most foolish and vicious swindles [it is wrong to call them humbugs] now extant.
It is, perhaps, one of the safest swindles ever contrived.
The modus operandi by which theseswindles are carried on is as follows: A.
So when one comes to analyze matters, no great moral distinction is found between two persons, one of whom swindles under "color of law," while the otherswindles in defiance of law.
Or he goes into Wall Street, and robs and swindles there till he gets to be a power, and lords it over sundry railroad and other vast interests, and is a very demigod.
The stories are endless of the shifts and swindles to which country managers, at their wits' end, have had to resort to attract a sluggish public.
Sometimes the jockey swindleshimself up into a gentleman, and sometimes the gentleman swindles himself down to a jockey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swindles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
