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Updated: June 13, 2025
You have acted basely, palming yourself upon us counterfeit as you were! and taking in exchange her true love and my honest, honourable regard." Clarence attempted to speak, but Mr. Bates glared at him, and continued "There are laws to punish thieves and counterfeits but such as you may go unchastised, except by the abhorrence of all honourable men.
We have had some imitation ideal statesmen who have been more or less successful in palming off their pinchbeck wares for the real; but looking backward over the history of the country we shall find the greatest among our public men measuring greatness by real and useful service to have been while they lived least regarded as idealists; for they were men of flesh and blood, who amid the rush of events and the calls to duty could not stop to paint pictures, to consider sensibilities, to put forth the deft hand where life and death hung upon the stroke of a bludgeon or the swinging of a club.
"'Perhaps! 'Not always! Great Scott, I'll have a fiver each way on both those. Considering you've treated me like a frightful kid practically ever since you've known me, I call that pretty rich! Why, what about this very night, when I asked you for a few pounds?" "It was only the thought that you had been gambling " "Gambling! How about palming off faked diamonds on Aunt Julia for a gamble?"
Isaacs was familiar with the native trick of palming off old tigers on the unwary stranger, in the hope of a reward. "Sahib, I am no liar. I saw the tiger, who is the king of the forest, this morning." Isaacs' manner relaxed a little, and he sat down and lighted the eternal cigarette.
It was noted that the breast ornaments, which they call guanines were made of copper rather than gold, and it was surmised that they dealt with tricky strangers who sold them these guanines, palming off upon them vile metal for gold. Neither did the Spaniards discover the trick till they melted these supposed valuables.
The native has far too good an eye to business to lurk behind obelisk or column with intent to spring out and demand the purse of any stray unit of the cosmopolitan hordes which bring such wealth in the winter months to the land of the Pharaohs. Rather not! Far greater joy for him at full noon is palming off upon your guileless self the spurious scarab at a price 300% above its intrinsic worth.
He was with Rallston, his brother-in-law, who had been most kind, hospitable, and jolly; but Ray went on to say he found that Rallston tried to be sharp in palming off some inferior horses upon them, and he had blocked it. This had caused a "split," so to speak, but nothing of consequence, as he had immediately started to rejoin. More than this there was no time to talk of.
This the Queen was determined to prevent if she could. The Princess Caroline fully shared her mother's belief that the Prince of Wales was quite capable of palming off a spurious child on the country; and indeed the King became after a while as well convinced of it as his wife and his daughter.
This word of advice, by the way, was a stereotyped commodity with the Doctor, who had not married a couple for the last thirty years, without palming it on them as an extempore piece of admonition arising from that particular occasion.
There's only the one pair. We've all got to use them alike." "Let me see them!" persisted Husky, showing his teeth. "It's my right!" Jack shrugged, and the bone cubes were solemnly passed from hand to hand. "You can't shoot on a mat," said Joe. Jerking the blanket from the floor, he tossed it behind him. "Get something to shake them in," said Shand. "No palming wanted."
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