bunco game

Example Sentences

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And two weeks ago he found a Stigma case named Mary Hall 'Not Guilty' of bunco game against the 99th National Bank.

From Modus Vivendi by Berryman, John

I've found it nothing but a bunco game, myself.

From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne

“But sometimes I have a sneaking notion that he thinks yet that Dick and I played some kind of a bunco game on him by doctoring the film.”

From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Chadwick, Lester

A nice bunco game you’ve played on me!

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

They got the Borough President of Manhattan, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Register and a lot of lesser places, it was the greatest bunco game of modern times.

From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington