cheateries

Cheng were at it with their wire-pullings and lobbyings and petty diddlings and political cheateries -- (it is all beautifully modern); what had the world to do with self-emptiness and Tao?

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

But there is the fact: you can leave your full purse in the streets of Chung-tu, and pick it up unrifled when you pass next; you can pay your just price, and get your just measure for it, fearing no cheateries;

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

Modern society should punish such cheateries severely.

My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

But for this, the first aggression on me, I might have been what the world terms honest, -- I might have advanced to old age and a peaceful grave through the harmless cheateries of trade or the honoured falsehoods of a profession.

Paul Clifford — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The child, when young, had been singularly handsome and intelligent; and Vavasour, as he toiled and toiled at his ingenious and graceful cheateries, pleased himself with anticipating the importance and advantages the heir to his labours would enjoy.

The Disowned — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But for this, the first aggression on me, I might have been what the world terms honest, -- I might have advanced to old age and a peaceful grave through the harmless cheateries of trade or the honoured falsehoods of a profession.

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Vavasour, as he toiled and toiled at his ingenious and graceful cheateries, pleased himself with anticipating the importance and advantages the heir to his labours would enjoy.

The Disowned — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It rather seemed to have come from one who partook of the play around him, and who knew better than herself, all its intricacies, and all its cheateries.

Isabella. A Novel 1823

But since I have begun the contrast, let me hope that it may be extended in its omen unto me; let me hope that as my encountering with the mercantile Brown brought me ill-luck in my enterprise, thereby signifying the crosses and vexations of those who labour in the cheateries and overreachings which constitute the vocation of the world; so my meeting with the philosophical Cole, who has, both in vagrancy and rest, found cause to boast of happiness, authorities from his studies to favour his inclination to each, and reason to despise what he, with Sir Kenelm Digby, would wisely call --

The Disowned — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But since I have begun the contrast, let me hope that it may be extended in its omen unto me; let me hope that as my encountering with the mercantile Brown brought me ill-luck in my enterprise, thereby signifying the crosses and vexations of those who labour in the cheateries and overreachings which constitute the vocation of the world; so my meeting with the philosophical Cole, who has, both in vagrancy and rest, found cause to boast of happiness, authorities from his studies to favour his inclination to each, and reason to despise what he, with Sir Kenelm Digby, would wisely call --

The Disowned — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838