false dice

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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

He then caught the false dice in the same way, shifted the empty box again, and threw till he threw out, still calling the same main, by which artifice he escaped suspicion.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew

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

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

From thee, false dice, jades, Cowards, and plaguy Summers, good Lord deliver me.

From The Scornful Lady by Fletcher, John