false dice

Example Sentences

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His friend undone by sharpers and false dice; and Stukely sole contriver, and possessor of all.

From The Gamester (1753) by Peake, Charles H.

Sakuni was an expert at false dice, and challenged Yudhishthir, and Yudhishthir held it a point of honour not to decline such a challenge.

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

Marry, once before he won     it of me with false dice; therefore your Grace may well say I     have lost it.

From Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare, William

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

But it will give me an opportunity to ascertain what I have suspected—too late, indeed, to save myself—that I have been the victim of false dice and figured cards.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore