10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARDSHARPING»
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cardsharping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cardsharping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Property Crime in London, 1850-Present
According to the Illustrated Circular, the trickster typically had cardsharping in his
criminal repertoire: “Cardsharping is closely allied to the confidence trick, for,
generally speaking, it is not possible to get a man to indulge in play for high
stakes ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Card counting NT Authors (Game) Baccarat Belote (Game) Bezique Calypso (
Game) Cardsharping Collectible card games Cribbage Duette (Game) Ecarté (
Game) Euchre Expansion (Game) Five hundred (Game) Fortune-telling by cards
...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... and imposture NT Automobile repair fraud Cardsharping Credit card fraud
Forgery Medicaid fraud Medicare fraud Quacks and quackery Securities fraud
Welfare fraud Swindlers and swindling in literature Swine (May Subd Geog) [QL
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Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts In Self-Portraiture
Even when he recognizes in the man keeping the bank a notorious plunderer, a
colleague in cardsharping, he Will still hazard his last ducat, knowing perfectly
well that he will lose it. Casanova himself, beyond question—although the
memoirs ...
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Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions Including ...
CardSharping Exposed. Translated and edited, with notes, by Professor
Hoffmann. London and New York, 1882. 12mo. 316 pp. —— Memoirs of
RobertHoudin, Ambassador,Author, and Conjurer, writtenby himself. Translated
fromtheFrench ...
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Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of ...
We havebeencompelled todwell somewhat at lengthupon matters whichare
associated with cards and cardgames only, becauseso large a proportion of the
sharping which goes onin theworld is cardsharping. Almost everyone plays cards
, ...
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Session Cases: Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and ...
The fraudulent acts or devices are those of chain-dropping, thimble-rigging,
loaded-dice playing, and cardsharping, <tc Unquestionably it was by the exercise
of the fraudulent act or device of cardsharping that the panels effected their
purpose.
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The High Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life and ...
An epochal figure, mythicized by his contemporaries, Tolstoy was able to
incorporate cardsharping into his aristocratic persona in a manner that sheds
particular light on romantic depictions of cardsharps and gambling. Recent
semiotic studies ...
Enter, then, the bad guys, who gain membership, rig the building with elaborate
snooping devices for spying on people at the card table — and, before you know
it, the Friars houses one of the neatest cardsharping operations in town. The FBI
...
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The Honor-Bound Gambler
Because these days, with Violet, that charmed life felt almost at the tips of Cade's
fingertips. ..his newly callused, almost-worthless-for-cardsharping, workingman's
fingertips. Ruefully, Cade staked his pitchfork in a nearby pile of hay. Alone in ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARDSHARPING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cardsharping is used in the context of the following news items.
'Murder on the Home Front,' a TV Mystery Set in Wartime
Patrick Kennedy, who showed up in “Downton” this season as a cardsharping house guest, plays an eager young pathologist named Lennox ... «New York Times, Feb 14»
Person of Interest 2.18 Review, “All In”
Lou used his exceptional skills in cardsharping to get natural nine after natural nine in a game of baccarat. Finch hacks the system to stake Lou ... «WhatCulture!, Mar 13»
The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson
... of racecourses and had to rely heavily on his cardsharping and chipping to offset the losses of a pursuit that would ultimately be his undoing. «Sabotage Times, Feb 12»
