A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
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Foot by foot Frank found himself nearing the stern of the sharpie.
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Suppose you tell us, in a whisper now, what brought you aboard that sharpie.
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So they began preparations for breakfast, Frank keeping an eye on the sharpie meanwhile.
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Conrad hauled the sharpie to the water's edge and lashed the sail-bag to the foredeck.
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After a bit, I'm going to take the dinghy and paddle over to that sharpie.
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And suddenly infinitude closed up like a losing hand folding in a cardsharp's grasp.
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Sorak walked over to where the cardsharp's body lay, and nudged it with his foot.
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He was voted best cardsharp, to his mother's shame.
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He shuffled his little deck like a cardsharp.
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The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.
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He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.
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A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.
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In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
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Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.
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He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher-he'llshake his head....
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Sharpies and wet-erase markers dry on the surface within ten seconds.
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Seattle was a port town full of sailors, hard-luck transients, and been-around-the-world sharpies.
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Good-night, dear Sharpy; don't scold; I will be good, and get into bed.'
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Now these old-line agency fellows are not dummies; they're sharpies.
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The rig reminds me of some of the sharpies they use on the Connecticut coast.
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Plays the dialogue a like a card sharp palming an ace.
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The card sharp still cursed furiously, and backed away.
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Call suspected him of being a card sharp, but if so he was a careful card sharp.
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He was a card sharp, all right.
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And he stopped being a card sharp.
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He may be a card sharper himself.
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I looked upon Mr. Bundercombe as a card sharper of the ordinary type, and I simply blamed myself for having introduced him to my friends.
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You're nothing more nor less than common card sharpers.
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I'd rather be a Three- Card Sharper than a barrister; I'd rather sell cat's-meat in the streets.
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The card sharpers were treated like honest people.
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I'd come back from Ireland hot-wired to sense disaster; he'd come back a card shark.
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In the second part, Doc, a card shark, talks about how he tricks people at cards.
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He is a booze fighter and a card shark and a lot of other unscriptural things.
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I hear you're quite the card shark.
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The World Series of Poker attracts every grizzled card shark and optimistic internet amateur to Las Vegas.
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It should mean sharper images and clearer sound: progress, in other words.
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A sharper-definition option, known as 4K, is planned for later this year.
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But while screen resolutions kept getting sharper, resolution independence never quite came.
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The cold outside felt sharper than it had a few minutes ago.
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Recently, however, the whole affair was pulled into sharper, more subjective focus.
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That was one advantage since the change: his vision was much sharper.
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He came for her, his long sharp fangs growing longer, and sharper.
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Regardless of timing, two decisive factors will come into sharper focus soon.
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Yet in many ways the Kia range offers sharper, less conservative, styling.
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But in recent weeks the exchanges have grown sharper and more personal.
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Sadly, the contrast with some members of Fianna Fail is even sharper.
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The longer he played the clearer and sharper the plan stood out.
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Their incision would be far sharper and more obvious after the interval.
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Blu-ray uses advanced digital technology to produce a sharper picture than DVDs.
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You tell me, he replied, sharper than necessary, sharper than he'd intended.
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The images that now appeared on the screen were indeed much sharper.
