Ill-gotten gains

Usage examples of grift.

The knight would be mad as hell about Bodger and Grift turning up on the doorstep, and even madder about the note.

After all he deserved it, sending Bodger and Grift round with the password, getting Lord Maybor nearly killed.

Bodger and Grift would force fancies and sweetmeats on her like a pair of maiden aunts, Nabber brought her gifts like an overardent suitor, and Maybor checked in on her by the hour like a nursemaid.

Bodger and Grift had tapped discreetly on the door, and when they walked into the room they brought a full-blown banquet with them.

Later, after Bodger passed out and Grift was forced to carry him from the room, things had mellowed to a slow, sleepy hush.

With all his might, Grift pushed on the first holding timber, forcing it back just a fraction.

Melli had watched as Maybor and Bodger and Grift fought with the two men.

Maybor made a mental note to ask Grift to pull together all the extra breastplates and shields-they could be used to add strength to the wall.

Everything had changed so much from those innocent days: Grift had changed, Tawl had changed, Maybor lay dying, and Melli was imprisoned in Bren.

Tawl, Grift, Nabber, and Jack downed the last of their ale in silence.

Familiarly, these two characters were known as Louie the Grift and Side-face Sam and they represented what might have been termed in better circles a renaissance of the gangster epoch in American history.

So when Louie opened the street door, The Shadow let the Grift enter unmolested.

In death, Louie the Grift had lost the services of the side-kick who had been willing to help him out in life.

CHAPTER V The late editions of the Sunday morning newspapers carried a small item about the death of Louie the Grift, but the details were meager.

Jack stepped forward, and Grift made a show of looking him up and down.