fagins

Updated: May 14, 2025

It seems as if he had avenged himself for the doubt about Fagin by introducing five or six Fagins triumphant Fagins, fashionable Fagins, Fagins who had changed their names. The impeccable old Aaron stands up in the middle of this ironic carnival with a peculiar solemnity and silliness.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

It was false and unfair; but the jury believed him I could well see that. "These men have made a fat living for nearly a generation in this city by blackmail, bribery, and perjury. They have made a business of ruining homes, reputations, and the lives of others. They have directed the operations of organized bands of criminals. They are the Fagins of the city of New York.

Arthur Cheney Train - The Confessions of Artemas Quibble : Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"

Perhaps you saw in The Times I think it was in May last the letter of an eminent American publisher, who not only resented the impeachment of his professional species, as "the Fagins of literature," but adroitly retorted the compliment upon divers respectable houses in London.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.