Example Sentences

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A man will swindle or seduce who will not sell his country.

From The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

"Verily, he is a scheming man, who will swindle you out of the eight hundred pounds when you have secured it."

From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by Musick, John R. (John Roy)

But he is so slippery a customer he will swindle us if he can.

From Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West by Bonehill, Ralph

This mite of a Johnny will swindle the Government, if I don’t kape me eye on him.”

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various

I cannot appreciate that disposition which will swindle a friend to compensate for what an enemy has stolen from you.

From A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry by Hinkley, Julian Wisner