How To Use Cardsharp In A Sentence
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There is, however, an expedient familiar to conjurers as "changing a card," which, with a little modification, is extensively used by the cardsharping fraternity under the name of "second dealing.
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She was not liked in the province; there had been a fearful outcry at her marriage with Odintsov, all sorts of fictions were told about her; it was asserted that she had helped her father in his cardsharping tricks, and even that she had gone abroad for excellent reasons, that it had been necessary to conceal the lamentable consequences
Chapter XV
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After Lloyd sent the cardsharp, she had set up a floating poker game, and then sent Bob to Homer.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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He began to expose cardsharping techniques, writing bylined newspaper articles exposing mechanical devices that literally secreted cards up the sleeves of the crooked card player, and spending hours demonstrating for reporters the secrets behind the three-card monte hustle.
The Secret Life of Houdini
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After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.
The Jungle
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Lorena, a cardsharp who chooses love over glamour and money.
Amy Bloom explains how a long night of dictation to a former student, plus a bottle of wine, led to the creation of Away, an epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent and accidental heroine.
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In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
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He didn't have the strength to fight with his fists, the speed to fight with a gun, or the greed to be a good cardsharp.
ONLY YOU
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He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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He didn't have the strength to fight with his fists, the speed to fight with a gun, or the greed to be a good cardsharp.
ONLY YOU
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Homer, and the cardsharp she had hired to try and entice him into gambling.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Not that I do not say that to be 'good,' to be able to look your own ugly jowl in the face in a mirror, is pleasant enough; but, as I see the matter, it is all one to other people whether you be a cardsharper or a priest so long as you're polite, and let down your neighbours lightly.
Through Russia
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“Only so he could recognize a cardsharp when he played with one.”
A Hellion in Her Bed
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After Lloyd sent the cardsharp, she had set up a floating poker game, and then sent Bob to Homer.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Homer, and the cardsharp she had hired to try and entice him into gambling.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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But Karzai, a cardsharp lacking aces, is playing many hands at once.
India and Pakistan's proxy war puts Afghanistan exit at risk
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I've never been to Vegas, but it doesn't take a cardsharp (or even a dullard) to understand that though readers also liked Mr. Sorrentino's and Mr. Markson's early books, those writers were never selected for the kind of mass appeal that is a consequence of, not a precursor for, the level of marketing investment that Mr. Russo and Candace Bushnell have received.
Deep-Hearted
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Homer, and the cardsharp she had hired to try and entice him into gambling.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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After Lloyd sent the cardsharp, she had set up a floating poker game, and then sent Bob to Homer.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Goth was betraying more knowledge of cardsharping than the captain would have expected.
The Wizard Of Karres
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Venetian painters had pioneered the poetic narrative scene involving two or three half-length figures, but in the "Gypsy Fortune-Teller" and the "Cardsharps" both 1595, Caravaggio gave the genre a streamlined, streetwise spin—Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it "low-life drama.
The Misery Memoirist
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He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows
The Schoolmistress and other stories
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Do you know, it seems that if I really had been born a cardsharper I should have remained a decent person to the day of my death, for I should never have had the boldness to do wrong.
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
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He didn't have the strength to fight with his fists, the speed to fight with a gun, or the greed to be a good cardsharp.
ONLY YOU
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Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.
The Path of the King
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The cardsharper lays down the twenty-four cards shown in the illustration, and invites the innocent wayfarer to try his luck or skill by seeing which of them can first score thirty-one, or drive his opponent beyond, in the following manner: --
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronskys presence.
Chapter XIX. Part III
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But he could spot a cardsharp a mile away—and Miss Lake was no cardsharp.
A Hellion in Her Bed
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Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky's presence.
Anna Karenina
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Having fallen in love with Astaire's cardsharp, she had hoped to marry him, until the fiancee from his past showed up.
Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
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Shane: I wasn't implying that "cardsharp" was wrong, just making the point that "card shark" wasn't.
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