This is so universally accepted, that the cheated party takes no offence.

It is known with what reluctance our government resolved upon the abolition of lotteries.

It felt that it was dealing a stab thereby at property.

The pickpocket, the blackleg, and the charlatan make especial use of their dexterity of hand, their subtlety of mind, the magic power of their eloquence, and their great fertility of invention.

Sometimes they offer bait to cupidity.