defrauders

Updated: June 14, 2025

The poor thief who robs you of your watch or pocket-book, is punished without delay; but these wealthy defrauders maintain their respectability and pass for honest men, even while withholding what they know to be the just due of another. "But cheer up, William, I have a fine plan for you, if you can but regain your health.

- Friends and Neighbors

Here were the malicious defrauders of the hungry warriors. Down upon them flew the angry foragers. Soon the pretty tranquil scene was ringing with the oaths of the plundering and the cries of the plundered; the cattle were being driven off, the houses and farm-yards rifled, blood was flowing, and what could not be carried off was burning.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Caged Lion