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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
Consider the shades of meanings among such word-groups as thief, peculator, defaulter, embezzler, burglar, yeggman, robber, bandit, marauder, pirate, and many more; or the distinctions among Hebrew, Jew, Israelite, and Semite.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale
The man who was not a sinecurist or a peculator was pretty sure to be a profligate or a gambler.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
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 Morison, James Cotter
One of these victims, questioned by Virgil, acknowledges he once held office in Navarre, but, rather than suffer at the hands of the demon tormentors, this peculator voluntarily plunges back into the pitch.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Burke, Edmund
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 Mackay, Charles
But they were most unscrupulous peculators, incapable of taking an interest in the scientific aspect of such matters, and hypnotized by the dreams of lucre which the opportunity evoked.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
Yet their frauds were as molehills to the mountains which the busy hands of our public peculators have heaped up, and are daily piling higher.
From Public School Education by Müller, Michael
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