"The honest, respectable wife of a noted local citizen, or a thoroughly disreputable peculator like yourself?". From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
It is, at any rate, something in his favour that he remained in office till his death, unless he was kept there on the principle of setting a peculator to catch a peculator. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
The conflict was carried through in a mood sometimes of brutish irritability and sometimes of lax slovenliness, the merry peculator plied his trade congenially in that asinine squabble, and behind these fooleries and masked by them, marched Fate — until at last the clowning of the booth opened and revealed — hunger and suffering, brands burning and swords and shame. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
The name of this peculator is said to have been Ciampolo.v. 51. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
He was -- if half Leicester's accusations are to be believed -- a most infamous peculator. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
As Finlay points out in his thoughtful history of Greece, Belisarius must have been a peculator on a large and dangerous scale. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbon] Reference
As a fact, those knaves, by their extravagance, had pushed him to ruin and compelled him to do things for which he was indicted as a peculator. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
Even Constantia would abjure him: -- surely she would never hear of his being reproved as a peculator, and ordered under an arrest for insubordination. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference
Before, he was accused as a peculator; he did not deny the fact; he did not refund the money; he fought it off; he stood upon the defensive, and used all the means in his power to prevent the inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
One of these victims, questioned by Virgil, acknowledges he once held office in Navarre, but, rather than suffer at the hands of the demon tormentors, this peculator voluntarily plunges back into the pitch. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Epic] Reference
He was notoriously poor; he was no less notoriously honest; it was perfectly certain that, in an age when a successful politician was for the most part a peculator, no shilling of public money had ever stuck to Pitt's fingers. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
"Nay, Mr. Green," interrupted Sir George Templemore, "I much question if government would assert a right to money that a peculator or a defaulter fairly spends, even in England; much less does it seem to me it can pretend to the few pounds that Captain Truck has lawfully earned.". From Wordnik.com. [Homeward Bound or, the Chase] Reference
I have seen her too, and I think that her image might be set up in the Stoa as a happy impersonation of the severest virtue: and yet children generally resemble their parents, and her father was the veriest peculator and the most cunning rascal that ever came in my way, and was sent off to the gold-mines for very sufficient reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
But what they shall say, and about what things or to what persons, and what their hearers shall learn from this talk, they care not even in the least degree, nor do they care if any generous youth after hearing such talk should suffer any harm from it, nor after he has suffered harm should lose all the seeds of his generous nature: nor if we should give an adulterer help toward being shameless in his acts; nor if a public peculator should lay hold of some cunning excuse from these doctrines; nor if another who neglects his parents should be confirmed in his audacity by this teaching. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
A peculator, that Raphael was a libertine, that Spenser was a poet laureate. From Wordnik.com. [A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays] Reference
A peculator is, under any circumstances, a criminal. ". From Wordnik.com. [Louise de la Valliere] Reference
He was moreover an infamous peculator. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He is a peculator for the good of his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
A peculator!. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
About this time he began to think (from what communication your Lordships may guess) of other means by which, when he could no longer conceal any bribe that he had received, he not only might exempt himself from the charge and the punishment of guilt, but might convert it into a kind of merit, and, instead of a breaker of laws, a violator of his trust, a receiver of scandalous bribes, a peculator of the first magnitude, might make himself to be considered as a great, distinguishing, eminent financier. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
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