How To Use Cardsharper In A Sentence
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Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky's presence.
Anna Karenina
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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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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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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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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 knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows
The Schoolmistress and other stories
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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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He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
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