Four sharpers once plotted against a Shroff, a man of much wealth, and agreed upon a sleight for securing some of his coins.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
The Shroff advised him to sell, but he would not do this and said to him, "Ho, shaykh!
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
No. Did he call any Shroff, any banker, any one person concerned in the payment of the money, or any one person in the management of the revenue?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.)"
Edmund Burke