false dice

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Lubber, name of a spirit, 8.Good year, corruption of goujère, 274.Goose, emblem of cowardice, 119;terms connected with, 118, 119.Gossamer, notions relating to, 259.Gossip’s bowl, 205.Gourds, false dice, 402.Gout,

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

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)

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

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

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