chouse

Example Sentences

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Obviously, the bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for "Titus Andronicus," the only play—ain't it?—that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tried to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

Whereof I be all in a quandary, for it do seem I wus within an ames ace of a havin bin chouse flickur'd meself.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

A-set-tin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.

From His "Day In Court" 1895 by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)