false dice

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But it will give me an opportunity to ascertain what I have suspected—too late, indeed, to save myself—that I have been the victim of false dice and figured cards.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore

If any one play with false dice or cheat, the monarch shall have him branded and banished.

From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer

I hate the strain and the anxiety; and when unexpected expenses are foisted on me, I feel the world is playing with false dice.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

They also know how to play with false dice; and so eagerly did I find them playing, that they perspired thereby.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

No one discovers that he has, by a very dexterous movement, slipped a set of false dice into the box, while O'Brodereque diverted attention at the moment by introducing the pony into the saloon.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)