cardsharper

Example Sentences

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Shapkin the attorney managed my divorce for me, the rascal . . . the notorious cardsharper, the fellow who got a thrashing at the club.

From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher—he'll shake his head....

From The Schoolmistress, and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.

From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

This man, a low fellow, probably a professional cardsharper, vowed that he had been robbed of a jewel which his host had staked, and it was said that a ring of great value had disappeared.

From Uncanny Tales by Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa