false dice

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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

Item, to my son Matt Flowerdale, I bequeath two bale of false dice; Videlicet, high men and low men, fullomes, stop cater traies, and other bones of function.'

From The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. by Unknown

We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

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)

He casts nativities as gamesters do false dice, and by slurring and palming sextile, quartile, and trine, like six, quatre, trois, can throw what chance he pleases.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various