peculator
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peculators
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Had the Colony shop been ever so justly and honestly conducted it could not be popular, how much less so must it have been in the hands of Alexander Macdonell, the peculator and deceiver.
From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by George Bryce
It is, at any rate, something in his favour that he remained in office till his death, unless he was kept there on the principle of setting a peculator to catch a peculator.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
It was Ciampolo, a peculator in the service of the good Thiebault, king of Navarre.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
The name of this peculator is said to have been Ciampolo. v.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Henry Francis Cary
As Finlay points out in his thoughtful history of Greece, Belisarius must have been a peculator on a large and dangerous scale.
From Gibbon by James Cotter Morison
Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways.
From Time Magazine Archive
Petitions from counties, cities, and boroughs, in all parts of the kingdom, were presented, crying for the justice due to an injured nation and the punishment of the villanous peculators.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
Do you know the whole tribe of peculators, whom Mr. Hastings calls his faithful domestic servants?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Owing probably, to these prejudices, and the influence of the peculators, he was treated, on his return to England, in a manner which had nearly driven him from the service.
From The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
There also was that terror of colonial peculators, the old ex-Intendant Morales, who, having quarrelled with every governor of Louisiana he ever saw, was now snarling at Casa Calvo from force of habit.
From The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
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