Rather
sharp practice! It's all right!" he added in a louder tone.
Well, my dear sir, Taboureau the laborer, an obliging, hard-working, good-natured fellow, used to lend a helping hand to any one who asked him; but as his gains have increased MONSIEUR Taboureau has become litigious, arrogant, and somewhat given to
sharp practice. The more money he makes, the worse he grows.
Yet there was a remarkable gentleness and childishness about these people, a special inaptitude for any kind of
sharp practice, and an untiring readiness to help and pity one another, deserving often of as much respect, and always of as much generous construction, as the every- day virtues of any class of people in the world.
He could not say exactly that it was
sharp practice on Owen's part to accept his invitation to call, and, having called, to continue calling long enough to make the present deplorable situation possible; but he felt that it would have been in better taste for the young man to have effaced himself and behaved more like a bank-clerk and less like an heir.
It won't do if I have done what looks a little like
sharp practice, and then only raised a revolution."
That party certainly did from that time apply himself to cutting in against me in a way that I will call
sharp practice, and did make it, at every turn and point, extremely difficult for me to be sure that I hadn't inadvertently led up to something contrary to Miss Summerson's wishes.
Dear me, Copperfield, that's
sharp practice! What do I mean by my look?'
Uncle Mitral, a former sheriff's officer, crafty, clever at
sharp practice, and full of expedients and judicial precautions, believed the honor of his family to be involved in the appointment of his nephew.
Barry Berlin, prosecuting, said that in relation to the charges admitted by Bore, who also accepts 27 other offences to be taken into consideration: 'There is now a basis of plea which is acceptable -that it was
sharp practice and an acceptance that a substantial proportion of his stock was counterfeit.'
It will be under the control of the Housing Corporation and as such there will be no worries of
sharp practice as the Housing Corporation will keep a strict eye on the actions of the Housing Association.
The same goes for Spain, where redoneo, rounding up, has entered the national vocabulary as a synonym for
sharp practice.
I would also tell the firm that you will be reporting them to Trading Standards, as this sounds like very
sharp practice. I think it's unlikely that you would receive a summons.