10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THIMBLERIGGER»
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thimblerigger in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
thimblerigger and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The thimblerigger coaxed others into the game. Sherlock was watching the crowd
rather than the game. It was a mixed crowd of high and low, tradesmen to toffs.
Amanda touched his arm and he looked over at her. “It seems so easy to spot.
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Scottish Law Journal and Sheriff Court Record
Now, really this does appear to the Sheriff-Substitute to be the true reading of the
article, The pursuer is not absolutely described as a thimblerigger, nor even like
one in any other sense than that of a person who seeks to win success without ...
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Poor Zeph, and other tales
A. THIMBLERIGGER'S. STORY.5. T)'RAPS, if you ever put this story in -*- a book,
you'll tidy up my langwidge here and there, sir, for I'm no scholard, and never was
, for that matter. Your health, gnv'ner. If you set me down a black sheep from a ...
Frederick William Robinson, 1880
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The English Republic...
Landlord's cousin, Thimblerigger, He too hath old claims to press : While we
compensate the bigger, Shall we starve the less ? Turpin, lord of Nimblehand,
Robbeth where he may : Filcheth purses, stealeth land, On the king's highway.
William James Linton, 1851
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Ireland for the Irish. Rhymes and reasons against ...
Landlord's cousin, Thimblerigger, He too hath old claims to press : While we
compensate the bigger, Shall we starve the less ? Turpin, lord of Nimblehand,
Robbeth where he may ; Filcheth purses, stealeth land, On the king's highway.
William James Linton, 1867
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Ask Momma: The Richest Commoner In England
Then ifthey get leave,theytake care never tohave a good take of seeds, and so
ploughon and plough on, promising to lay it down better after each fresh attempt,
just asa thimblerigger urges his dupe togoon and goon, and try his luckonce
more ...
Robert Smith Surtees, 2014
At the left ofthe painting (andstrategically situated just outside the tent of the
Reform Club, hoho)isthe 'thimblerigger' himself: the conman with thetablefor the
unwinnable gameinwhich a ball or pea is hidden under oneof three tumblers,and
...
My father was a carousing thimblerigger.” “Thimblerigger?” “Skilled in
legerdemain,a nowyouseeit, nowyoudon't sort. He was shot deadon Bourbon
Street in the port ofNew Orleans.” flatulence. “Thereshe blows!” Hebroke into
raucous He let ...
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The English Republic: God and the People
Landlord's cousin, Thimblerigger, He too hath old claims to press :~ While we
compensate the bigger, Shall we starve the less? Turpin, lord of Nimblehand,
Robbeth where he may: Filcheth purses, stealeth land, On the king's highway.
As we approached, I at once comprehended that the man was a thimblerigger. "
Stay," I whispered to the Major* "let's keep away. They are no good." "How." "
Thimbleriggers." "What's that?" "Simply swindling." "Faugh! let's go and see what
it's ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1871
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THIMBLERIGGER»
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thimblerigger is used in the context of the following news items.
This, That Or The Other: IX
Grab a Corpse Reviver and perform a Shining Wizard with your Thimblerigger. (Why do the names of cocktails, wrestling moves and old-timey occupations ... «NPR, Jan 15»
Snakes Alive! The Rattlesnake Derby is like a bass-fishing …
By noon the crowd is double what it was the day before--there are snake lovers and snake haters here, dudes and thimbleriggers and solid citizens, plowboys ... «SI.com, Aug 14»
Political sex-capades nothing new in Maryland
Albert Ritchie was caught in flagrante with a young woman late at night in the State House, as writer Brad Jacobs details in his book, “Thimbleriggers.”. «Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online, Jan 13»
MLB, NFL: Where the (trans)action is
But in America, all that noble toil brings with it a touch of the moneychanger and the snake-oil seller and the thimblerigger and the professional politician. «ESPN, Aug 11»
Goldman Sachs Government
Thimbleriggers or not, supremely self-assured Goldman Sachs alumni at the highest levels of the Bush administration are now pulling the levers of power in the ... «American Spectator, Oct 08»
