"Counterfeit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pass counterfeit money on me. You vagabond ... you thief! Be off! No, wait; I'll ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... counterfeit money, boys, made from the plates in the bag. They were taking these things to Solus, who had written them that he had secured a nice quiet retreat where they might work undisturbed. So you see, my boy," said Mr. Pender to Ted, "if you had made way with ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
... the feeble new product, but this did not concern his successors— they were interested only in his technical principles. Moreover, in their naivete, they imagined they were improving on Jackson because their prints were counterfeit paintings while his ...
— John Baptist Jackson - 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut • Jacob Kainen
... appearance of a gentleman in dress and manners, purchases property from you, and with "fair pretences" obtains your confidence. You find, when he has left, that he paid you with counterfeit bank-notes, or a forged draft. This man is justly called a "forger," or "counterfeiter;" and if arrested, he is punished as such; but nobody thinks ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum
... gotten message to lavish on them; just as there can be no coward and craven more abject than a minister with any conscience who appears in the pulpit after an idle, dishonest week, to cheat his congregation with a diet of fragments seasoned with counterfeit fervour. ...
— The Preacher and His Models - The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 • James Stalker
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