He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference

He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference

Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky's presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life] Reference

Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

Do you know, it seems that if I really had been born a cardsharper I should have remained a decent person to the day of my death, for I should never have had the boldness to do wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference

Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky’s presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XIX. Part III] Reference

The cardsharper lays down the twenty-four cards shown in the illustration, and invites the innocent wayfarer to try his luck or skill by seeing which of them can first score thirty-one, or drive his opponent beyond, in the following manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems] Reference

That is N. N., the famous Tula cardsharper who was had up in connection with the Y. bank affair.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference

Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky’s presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

These principles laid down as invariable rules: that one must pay a cardsharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat anyone, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

These principles laid down as invariable rules: that one must pay a cardsharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XX. Part III] Reference

"A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference

Shapkin the attorney managed my divorce for me, the rascal ... the notorious cardsharper, the fellow who got a thrashing at the club .... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories] Reference

1722, five months after the loss of his Chancery suit, against the cardsharper, Robert Midford, who was then apparently threatening him with outlawry for the recovery of the gambling debt begun, as we have seen, at Princes 'Coffee-house six years before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Fielding A Memoir]

A spieler, cardsharper, crooked gambler.    From Wordnik.com.  [The numbers games: House and Senate in 2010, and beyond] Reference