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Usage examples of cheat.

He had the advantage of owning an excellent network of reporters of transgressions, for he enlisted Lucius Decumius and his crossroads brethren as informers, and cracked down very hard on merchants who weighed light or measured short, on builders who infringed boundaries or used poor materials, on landlords who had cheated the water companies by inserting bigger-bore adjutage pipes from the mains into their properties than the law prescribed.

Laura felt cheated, for here came Amir Bedawi, at last, and she had no sun to provide her eyes the feast they had waited for all day.

After supper she held a bank, and I was greatly astonished when I saw her cheating with great dexterity.

Make my son, the Baas Allan, count them, for then he will not be able to grumble at you if things turn out badly whether you go or whether you stay behind, and say that you counted wrong or cheated.

They had sent letters of excuse claiming poor crops, banditry, plague, evil weather, and cheating tax gatherers.

I cheated her now and then, but to her own advantage, for a young woman is always more vigorous than a man, and we did not stop till the day began to break.

Carew had cheated to win Bonheur, and Gerald Delaup, losing it, had died.

Digen eased the girl through changeover, cheating her of her normal breakout experience but putting her well on the path to a long and healthy life.

Just as we were finishing supper, an Englishman, who had been of the whist party, came up and told Walpole that the Italian had been caught cheating and had given the lie to their fellow Englishman, who had detected him, and that they had gone out together.

Next morning Count Torriano came to see me, thanked me for my punctuality, congratulated himself on the pleasure he expected to derive from my society, and told me he was very sorry we could not start for two days, as a suit was to be heard the next day between himself and a rascally old farmer who was trying to cheat him.

Every player has cheated death, surviving a killing dose of venom to balance on the edge of oblivion, returning with the magic puntas possess.

I have compelled the thief to refund this money, together with the fifty sequins of which he had likewise cheated me.

I beg to inform you that I am not simple enough to allow myself to be duped, and, what is worse, cheated in such a manner.

You need not be afraid of being cheated, as you will give the money to her personally when you have possessed yourself of her.

I was tired of being cheated, and I took hold of my pistols and pointed them at him, bidding him be gone instantly.