cardsharper

Example Sentences

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Shapkin the attorney managed my divorce for me, the rascal . . . the notorious cardsharper, the fellow who got a thrashing at the club.

From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher—he'll shake his head....

From The Schoolmistress, and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.

From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

This man, a low fellow, probably a professional cardsharper, vowed that he had been robbed of a jewel which his host had staked, and it was said that a ring of great value had disappeared.

From Uncanny Tales by Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa