false dice
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With wily craft the sharpers substituted their deceitful 'doctors' or false dice; and thus 'crabs,' or 'a losing game,' became the portion of the 'flats,' or dupes.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
Other fellows did gain a livelihood by play, for at that they were better than sharpers and could get their simple comrades' money from them with false dice: but such a profession I loathed.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
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 William Shakespeare
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 F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
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 William Gilmore Simms
