false dice

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Thirdly, it shalbe lawfull for anie whatsoeuer to play with false dice in a corner on the couer of this foresaid Acts and monuments.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

Sakuni was an expert at false dice, and challenged Yudhishthir, and Yudhishthir held it a point of honour not to decline such a challenge.

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

But, almost immediately, the metaphorical cloven foot and false dice appear.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

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)

Indeed, if some one plays with me for money he has stolen from me, I have the right to use false dice against him, because all that I win from him already belongs to me.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur