Underneath his smooth veneer Rourke's Yankee swindler is sinister. From Wordnik.com. [Megan Doherty: My Walking Tour With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man] Reference
"You would have me steal away in secret, like what you English call a swindler!". From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
The swindler was a potter, and the woman told him that he ought to give her a load of pots. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Handel was called a swindler, a drunkard, and a blasphemer, to whom Scripture even was not sacred. From Wordnik.com. [The Great German Composers]
One, Jean-Claude Fini, also incarcerated for libeling in London, knew Pelleport well and described him as a "swindler," a "monster," and. From Wordnik.com. [Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia] Reference
That's why we call swindler's "confidence men.". From Wordnik.com. [Patterico's Pontifications] Reference
Lovelorn lady nabs Europe's lonely hearts "swindler". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
"More like a stock and bond swindler," thought Joe. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
"Do you then not be cheated by an English swindler.". From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
Here, if you need two fares for one job, you swindler!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Louis indignantly denounced Potts to his father as a swindler. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
"Rawlins is an American swindler of the smartest type," said Merritt. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Of course, being a thief and a swindler, he was suspicious of everybody. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
And it stung him to the very soul to be treated like a swindler or a villain. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison] Reference
He lived at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and was famous as a thief and swindler. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The phrase takes its name from Charles Ponzi, a famous Roaring Twenties swindler. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Ponzi scheme] Reference
His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, is a "brilliantly successful Wall Street swindler.". From Wordnik.com. [Dysfunctional First Family] Reference
Long May; and at last a swindler says he is, and receives as a gift all the grain. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
There, sitting in a secluded corner, Mr. Annister unfolded a plot to the swindler. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences] Reference
This mimic and swindler, he felt assured, was none other than his own brother-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
Even at the time I believe he was suspected by the police of being an astute swindler. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Jim 'Hatch, a notorious bunko swindler, and I've got him cornered but he doesn't know it. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Perhaps the swindler was afraid Mr. Pike would find out about his underhand transactions. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
The whole thing was a fraud, and the swindler only avoided arrest by leaving the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
It has the shape of a contemptible swindler in literature, a plagiarist without bounds, named. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
I knew Dan Merley was an unprincipled man, but I did not believe he was an accident swindler. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film] Reference
Cassey the swindler, whom they had compelled to make restitution to the victim he had wronged. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
While Benton was photographing Gibson and Hatch, John observed the bunko swindler more closely. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
But sadly Madoff is not the only swindler out there who would be happy to part you from your cash. From Wordnik.com. [Madoff's 150-year sentence doesn't mean the end of financial scams] Reference
That which makes the honest man a pauper and a beggar, and sets the clever swindler in parliament. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler. From Wordnik.com. [Investors Win $12.74 Million in Madoff Feeder-Fund Case] Reference
The official told Levitt that the president was preparing a last-minute pardon for accused tax swindler Marc Rich. From Wordnik.com. [A Pardon's Path] Reference
Sutton was the sly swindler who, when asked why he robbed banks, was said to reply, "Because that's where the money is.". From Wordnik.com. [Grand Theft Identity] Reference
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